WNY Asset Management LLC Makes New Investment in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

WNY Asset Management LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 28,889 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $5,091,000.

Several other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the business. Norges Bank acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth $62,244,133,000. J. Stern & Co. LLP raised its position in NVIDIA by 13,709.1% in the 4th quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,454,297,000 after purchasing an additional 124,849,603 shares in the last quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. raised its position in NVIDIA by 896.4% in the 4th quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. now owns 78,123,960 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $14,570,119,000 after purchasing an additional 70,283,539 shares in the last quarter. Capital Research Global Investors boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 16.1% in the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $30,855,564,000 after buying an additional 22,896,705 shares during the period. Finally, Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 15,496.1% in the 2nd quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 21,865,525 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $3,454,534,000 after buying an additional 21,725,326 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly partnering with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR on an AI infrastructure financing effort targeting up to $500 billion. The initiative could accelerate data-center construction and support future demand for NVIDIA’s GPUs. Nvidia teams up with Wall Street asset managers on $500 billion AI infrastructure push
• Positive Sentiment: Bank of America maintained a Buy rating and $350 price target, projecting second-quarter revenue of $94 billion to $95 billion—potentially $3 billion to $4 billion above NVIDIA’s guidance—and forecasting a “multi-quarter upgrade cycle.” BofA: Nvidia’s next earnings report could kick off a multi-quarter upgrade cycle
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts remain constructive ahead of the August 26 earnings report, citing expected $91 billion of quarterly revenue, gross margins near 75%, strong Data Center demand and continued adoption of Blackwell systems. Nvidia: Buy Before Q2 Shows The AI Factory Trade Is Still Early
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly considering investing as much as $3 billion in Lancium, an AI data-center power infrastructure company. The investment could strengthen NVIDIA’s ecosystem position, but it also adds to questions about how much capital the chipmaker should devote to investments instead of share buybacks. Nvidia Stock Slips as Its AI Investments Draw Fresh Scrutiny
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are increasingly focused on NVIDIA’s expanding role in financing the AI buildout. Mark Cuban compared the strategy with dot-com-era companies that funded customers, raising concerns that financing could amplify concentration and credit risks if AI spending fails to generate adequate returns. Mark Cuban warned Nvidia’s AI financing could crumble the market
• Negative Sentiment: Reports that Microsoft is reconsidering its reliance on NVIDIA in favor of internally developed AI silicon highlight a potential long-term customer-concentration and pricing risk, even though near-term demand remains robust. Microsoft rethinks its Nvidia reliance

NVIDIA Stock Down 2.9%

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $217.55 on Tuesday. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $205.53 and a 200 day moving average price of $197.54. The stock has a market cap of $5.26 trillion, a PE ratio of 33.32, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.44 and a beta of 2.23. The company has a quick ratio of 2.85, a current ratio of 3.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52-week low of $164.07 and a 52-week high of $236.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.94% and a net margin of 62.97%.The company had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.81 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Equities research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were issued a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 4th. This is a positive change from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is presently 15.31%.

NVIDIA announced that its board has approved a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are often an indication that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research firms recently weighed in on NVDA. Itau BBA Securities cut their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a research note on Wednesday, June 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $265.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. UBS Group boosted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $275.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Raymond James Financial reissued a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $330.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $315.00 price objective (up from $265.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Tuesday, May 12th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $304.26.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the transaction, 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. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total transaction of $133,750.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 14,163 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,030,882. This represents a 4.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015 in the last 90 days. 3.94% of the stock is owned by 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.