NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Stock Price Up 2% After Analyst Upgrade

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) rose 2% on Tuesday after Zacks Research upgraded the stock from a hold rating to a strong-buy rating. The company traded as high as $208.65 and last traded at $207.29. 107,158,935 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 35% from the average session volume of 165,739,688 shares. The stock had previously closed at $203.28.

NVDA has been the subject of several other research reports. The Goldman Sachs Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $285.00 target price (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, May 20th. Royal Bank Of Canada set a $280.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Bank of America restated a “buy” rating and set a $350.00 target price (up from $320.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Melius Research set a $400.00 price objective on NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, July 4th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $304.26.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the 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 $1,094,412,146.07. This represents a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This trade represents a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

NVIDIA News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA continues to reinforce its AI leadership through product and ecosystem news, including the rollout of its Vera CPU strategy, Spectrum-6 Ethernet platform, and Rubin chips shipping to customers. These updates suggest NVDA is still executing well and expanding beyond GPUs into broader AI infrastructure. Nvidia details its next-generation Vera CPU for AI, setting up challenge to AMD and Intel
• Positive Sentiment: Several reports pointed to continued investor enthusiasm, including unusual call-option volume, a technical “buy trigger,” and analyst upgrades. That kind of trading and sentiment can help explain why NVDA is attracting buyers despite recent volatility. Nvidia donates supercomputer to U.S. military university
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s 9.3% passive stake in Nebius is being viewed as a strategic move to lock in downstream AI demand and deepen ties with AI cloud operators. The Nebius investment has been cited as evidence that NVIDIA is not only selling chips, but also helping finance the AI buildout that buys them. Nvidia supplier Wistron launches $700 million Texas factory for AI system production
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA also received attention for donating an AI supercomputer to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and for broader articles arguing the stock remains cheap relative to long-term AI spending. These stories are supportive, but they are less likely to move the shares immediately than product launches and competitive updates.
• Negative Sentiment: AMD is expected to unveil next-generation AI infrastructure designed to compete directly with NVIDIA, and that prospect is creating headline risk for NVDA. Investors are watching closely because stronger competition could pressure NVIDIA’s pricing power and market share over time. AMD expected to launch next generation of AI infrastructure to challenge Nvidia

Institutional Trading of NVIDIA

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. McElhenny Sheffield Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 9.7% in the second quarter. McElhenny Sheffield Capital Management LLC now owns 11,608 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $2,323,000 after purchasing an additional 1,025 shares in the last quarter. Robbins Farley grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 1.5% during the second quarter. Robbins Farley now owns 54,783 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $10,962,000 after buying an additional 819 shares in the last quarter. Capital Advisors Inc. OK grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.9% during the second quarter. Capital Advisors Inc. OK now owns 1,492,098 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $298,554,000 after buying an additional 13,928 shares in the last quarter. PayPay Securities Corp raised its position in NVIDIA by 17.9% in the 2nd quarter. PayPay Securities Corp now owns 494 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $99,000 after buying an additional 75 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Alecta Tjanstepension Omsesidigt raised its position in NVIDIA by 1.4% in the 2nd quarter. Alecta Tjanstepension Omsesidigt now owns 9,841,100 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $1,965,858,000 after buying an additional 133,200 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

NVIDIA Trading Up 2.3%

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 firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $208.76 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $195.59. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.13 trillion, a P/E 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, topping the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The firm had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.81 EPS. The business’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 company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were given a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 4th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.5%. This is an increase from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is 15.31%.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization allows the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

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.