NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is Rydar Equities Inc.’s 5th Largest Position

Rydar Equities Inc. lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 11.8% in the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 28,924 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after buying an additional 3,054 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for approximately 3.4% of Rydar Equities Inc.’s portfolio, making the stock its 5th biggest position. Rydar Equities Inc.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $5,988,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in NVDA. State Street Corp lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1.2% during the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 991,480,489 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $184,911,111,000 after purchasing an additional 11,451,386 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.6% in the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 588,803,093 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $109,446,217,000 after buying an additional 3,383,441 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in NVIDIA during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $62,244,133,000. Bank of America Corp DE raised its stake in NVIDIA by 2.1% during the first quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 191,200,989 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $33,345,453,000 after buying an additional 4,019,505 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Legal & General Group Plc lifted its holdings in NVIDIA by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 181,203,035 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,808,862,000 after buying an additional 2,609,560 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s planned $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face could expand its full-stack AI strategy by combining its chips and CUDA software with Hugging Face’s open-model library and developer community. Analysts view the deal as potentially strengthening NVIDIA’s competitive moat. NVIDIA’s Hugging Face Buyout article
• Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang said OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Grace Blackwell systems, with another 400,000 GPUs coming online. The announcement reinforces NVIDIA’s role in the largest AI model deployments and highlights potential demand for future systems. Jensen Huang and OpenAI Astra article
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s $20 billion Groq investment is moving toward commercialization, with Groq 3 LPX racks expected to deploy alongside Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs at Nebius later this year. This supports the company’s effort to broaden beyond standalone GPUs into complete AI infrastructure. NVIDIA Groq rack article
• Neutral Sentiment: Broadcom raised its expected fiscal 2027 AI-chip revenue to about $115 billion, signaling continued hyperscaler spending but also showing that customers increasingly want custom accelerators in addition to NVIDIA GPUs. Broadcom AI forecast article
• Negative Sentiment: Investors face growing risks from custom chips, AMD and older GPUs being redeployed for longer periods, potentially slowing replacement demand. Opposition to energy-intensive data centers could also delay the infrastructure buildout that supports NVIDIA’s sales. NVIDIA competition article
• Negative Sentiment: Despite exceptional growth, valuation expectations are demanding, while higher memory costs, rising receivables and weaker sequential free cash flow could pressure margins and investor confidence.

NVIDIA Price Performance

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $230.36 on Tuesday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $164.07 and a 52 week high of $236.54. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The stock has a market cap of $5.55 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.12, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.81 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $211.32 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $202.51.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.09 by $0.13. The company had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.04% and a net margin of 63.66%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.05 earnings per share. Analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 12.64%.

NVIDIA announced that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization permits the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several brokerages have recently commented on NVDA. UBS Group set a $300.00 target price on NVIDIA and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Wolfe Research restated an “outperform” rating and set a $275.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Mizuho set a $315.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 27th. DA Davidson reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Tigress Financial reissued a “strong-buy” rating and set a $425.00 target price (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, May 27th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have issued a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $324.83.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 63,501 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $220.06, for a total transaction of $13,974,030.06. Following the sale, the director directly owned 4,558,770 shares in the company, valued at $1,003,202,926.20. The trade was a 1.37% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, EVP Timothy S. Teter sold 30,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $217.88, for a total transaction of $6,536,400.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $585,587,360.80. This represents a 1.10% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold a total of 1,563,501 shares of company stock worth $335,380,530 in the last ninety days. 3.94% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a global technology company that designs and develops graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip (SoC) technologies. Co-founded by Jensen Huang, who serves as president and chief executive officer, along with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, NVIDIA has grown from a graphics-focused chipmaker into a broad provider of accelerated computing hardware and software for multiple industries.

The company’s product portfolio spans discrete GPUs for gaming and professional visualization (marketed under the GeForce and NVIDIA RTX lines), high-performance data center accelerators used for AI training and inference (including widely adopted platforms such as the A100 and H100 series), and Tegra SoCs for automotive and edge applications.