Valmark Advisers Inc. Cuts Stock Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Valmark Advisers Inc. lessened its stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 3.9% in the first quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 98,815 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 3,989 shares during the period. Valmark Advisers Inc.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $17,233,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Pittenger & Anderson Inc. raised its stake in NVIDIA by 8.7% during the first quarter. Pittenger & Anderson Inc. now owns 142,285 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $24,815,000 after buying an additional 11,378 shares during the last quarter. Gables Capital Management Inc. grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.2% in the first quarter. Gables Capital Management Inc. now owns 106,605 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $18,592,000 after acquiring an additional 1,250 shares during the last quarter. SFE Investment Counsel grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.6% in the first quarter. SFE Investment Counsel now owns 136,385 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $23,786,000 after acquiring an additional 766 shares during the last quarter. UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 8.4% during the first quarter. UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp now owns 316,215 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $55,148,000 after acquiring an additional 24,489 shares in the last quarter. Finally, 180 Wealth Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the first quarter. 180 Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 195,530 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $34,100,000 after acquiring an additional 2,970 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In related news, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total value of $133,750.00. Following the sale, the director owned 14,163 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,030,882. This trade represents a 4.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,094,412,146.07. This trade represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015 over the last quarter. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA and the Naval Postgraduate School said NVIDIA donated a supercomputer using its latest chips to a nonprofit tied to the institution, highlighting expanding adoption of its AI hardware in U.S. defense and research. Reuters: Nvidia donates supercomputer to U.S. military university
• Positive Sentiment: Bank of America said NVIDIA’s Vera CPU launch is intensifying the AI server CPU battle and kept a Buy rating with a $350 target, suggesting the company could expand beyond GPUs into a larger share of AI infrastructure spending. Yahoo Finance: BofA sees server CPU TAM hitting $170bn by 2030 as NVIDIA takes on AMD
• Positive Sentiment: Several articles highlighted NVIDIA as a beneficiary of the broader AI capex cycle, with bullish takes pointing to cheaper AI models, sovereign AI demand, and continued chip spending that could support long-term growth. Zacks: Can NVIDIA’s Sovereign AI Push Unlock New Revenue Streams Now?
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA also gained support from market momentum and technical traders, with reports that the stock cleared an early buy trigger ahead of Alphabet earnings and that the semiconductor rebound is being treated as a positioning reset, not a collapse in demand. Investor’s Business Daily: Nvidia Hits Buy Trigger With Alphabet Earnings Due

NVIDIA Price Performance

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $212.06 on Thursday. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.07 and a one year high of $236.54. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $208.76 and a 200 day moving average of $195.59. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a current ratio of 3.44. The company has a market capitalization of $5.13 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.47, a PEG ratio of 0.40 and a beta of 2.21.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $78.42 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.81 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization permits the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company’s board believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 4th were given a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.5%. This is a positive change from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 4th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 15.31%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Citigroup began coverage on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, April 15th. They issued a “buy” rating on the stock. Craig Hallum raised their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $245.00 to $275.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Rosenblatt Securities reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $325.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Melius Research set a $400.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “hold” rating and set a $255.00 price target (up from $220.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have given a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $304.26.

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.