Clare Market Investments LLC Takes $14.47 Million Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Clare Market Investments LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) during the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 82,983 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $14,472,000. NVIDIA comprises approximately 3.0% of Clare Market Investments LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 7th biggest position.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of NVDA. Advance Capital Management Inc. boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 2.8% in the 1st quarter. Advance Capital Management Inc. now owns 27,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $4,857,000 after purchasing an additional 757 shares during the period. Downshift Financial LLC boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 8.3% in the first quarter. Downshift Financial LLC now owns 12,875 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $2,245,000 after buying an additional 989 shares during the period. Swedbank AB boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.8% in the first quarter. Swedbank AB now owns 43,437,688 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $7,575,533,000 after buying an additional 771,913 shares during the period. Sage Rhino Capital LLC grew its position in NVIDIA by 1.8% during the first quarter. Sage Rhino Capital LLC now owns 28,612 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $4,990,000 after buying an additional 502 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Clay Northam Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 8.1% during the 1st quarter. Clay Northam Wealth Management LLC now owns 35,918 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $6,264,000 after acquiring an additional 2,677 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds 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 expanded its AI push in Japan, unveiling partnerships with major companies and institutions to build national AI infrastructure, robotics, and localized AI models. Japan Government, Industrial Leaders and NVIDIA Launch the World’s First National AI Infrastructure
• Positive Sentiment: Japan’s robotics and manufacturing leaders are adopting NVIDIA’s Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis, Jetson, and Nemotron platforms, reinforcing the company’s push beyond GPUs into physical AI and full-stack infrastructure. Japan’s Robotics and Manufacturing Leaders Build on NVIDIA Cosmos to Advance Physical AI Frontier
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts at KeyCorp reiterated an Overweight view and raised long-dated earnings estimates, suggesting Wall Street still sees substantial upside if NVIDIA’s AI buildout continues. MarketBeat NVIDIA analyst and earnings estimates

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have recently issued reports on NVDA. Wall Street Zen lowered NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, July 4th. Craig Hallum increased their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $245.00 to $275.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. DA Davidson reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $300.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, June 1st. DZ Bank reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, UBS Group lifted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $275.00 to $280.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $304.26.

Insider Activity

In other news, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total transaction of $133,750.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 14,163 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,030,882. The trade was a 4.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible 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 the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock valued at $410,583,015. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NVIDIA stock opened at $207.40 on Friday. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $209.88 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $195.05. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.02 trillion, a P/E ratio of 31.76, a P/E/G ratio of 0.47 and a beta of 2.21. NVIDIA Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $164.07 and a fifty-two week high of $236.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 3.44 and a quick ratio of 2.85.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.76 by $0.11. The company had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $78.42 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.94% and a net margin of 62.97%.NVIDIA’s revenue was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.81 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.8 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. 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. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is 15.31%.

NVIDIA declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically a sign that the company’s board believes its shares are undervalued.

About NVIDIA

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.