Willis Investment Counsel Has $20.30 Million Stock Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Willis Investment Counsel increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 4.5% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 108,863 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 4,646 shares during the quarter. Willis Investment Counsel’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $20,303,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Personal CFO Solutions LLC raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 7.1% during the fourth quarter. Personal CFO Solutions LLC now owns 88,624 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $16,528,000 after purchasing an additional 5,902 shares during the period. Hill Island Financial LLC grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 17.4% in the 4th quarter. Hill Island Financial LLC now owns 30,556 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $5,699,000 after purchasing an additional 4,537 shares during the period. Centennial Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $357,000. Yarger Wealth Strategies LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 3.1% during the 4th quarter. Yarger Wealth Strategies LLC now owns 16,220 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,025,000 after purchasing an additional 489 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Squire Investment Management Company LLC raised its holdings in NVIDIA by 36.1% during the 4th quarter. Squire Investment Management Company LLC now owns 5,274 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $984,000 after buying an additional 1,399 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Surging earnings-growth narrative: analysts and screens highlight NVDA as one of two names driving explosive 2026 earnings momentum, reinforcing buy-side conviction. Only 2 Stocks Driving Explosive Earnings Growth in 2026 – NVDA & AVGO
• Positive Sentiment: Concrete enterprise demand: a disclosed $260M Axe Compute order for 2,304 NVIDIA B300 GPUs signals durable hyperscaler/enterprise bookings and visibility into future shipments. Axe Compute jumps nearly 96% after unveiling a $260M enterprise NVIDIA B300 GPU deal
• Positive Sentiment: Supply-chain tailwind: Nvidia’s key memory supplier SK Hynix reported blowout profit, citing AI-driven memory demand — a signal that downstream GPU deployments remain strong. Nvidia supplier SK Hynix Q1 profit rises more than five-fold, meets forecasts
• Positive Sentiment: New infrastructure partnerships: Nvidia is tied into projects (e.g., Oklo + Los Alamos) to support novel AI datacenter power and deployment use-cases, expanding TAM for its stack. Oklo, Nvidia, Los Alamos National Laboratory to partner in supporting nuclear-powered AI factories
• Neutral Sentiment: Mixed Signal — Google tie-up vs. competition: public stories show both a deeper Google Cloud infrastructure collaboration and Google’s launch of custom TPUs — a relationship that helps distribution but increases long-term competitive intensity. NVIDIA (NVDA) Stock Slips Despite Major Google Cloud AI Infrastructure Partnership
• Negative Sentiment: China market pressure: DeepSeek analysis suggests Nvidia is losing share in China’s AI accelerator market — a risk to growth if local players accelerate wins. Nvidia Chips Are Losing Out in One Key Market. DeepSeek Lays Bare a Missed Opportunity.
• Negative Sentiment: Direct competition intensifies: Google’s new TPU 8 series explicitly targets training and inference, raising questions about longer-term GPU share in hyperscale clouds. Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia
• Negative Sentiment: China sales constraints: reports indicate Nvidia’s H200 hasn’t been sold to Chinese customers yet, highlighting regulatory and permission-related revenue friction. Nvidia has not yet sold its H200 AI chips to China, Lutnick says
• Negative Sentiment: Near-term market pressure: broader risk-off moves (oil spike, software sell-off) and heavy insider selling cited in data feeds are short-term headwinds for momentum traders. Nvidia Shares Slide As Oil Spikes, Software Stocks Sell Off: What You Need To Know

Insider Activity

In related news, Director John Dabiri sold 3,004 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $184.90, for a total value of $555,439.60. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 14,788 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,734,301.20. This trade represents a 16.88% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, March 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $182.25, for a total transaction of $54,675,000.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 3,018,547 shares in the company, valued at approximately $550,130,190.75. The trade was a 9.04% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 953,976 shares of company stock worth $171,173,819. Corporate insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts have weighed in on NVDA shares. DA Davidson reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $250.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, February 23rd. UBS Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, March 17th. Oppenheimer reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $265.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Wall Street Zen upgraded NVIDIA from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Saturday, April 18th. Finally, Piper Sandler reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have issued a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $275.25.

NVIDIA Stock Down 1.4%

NVIDIA stock opened at $199.64 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $4.85 trillion, a P/E ratio of 40.74, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.67 and a beta of 2.34. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1-year low of $103.11 and a 1-year high of $212.19. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $184.33 and a 200 day simple moving average of $185.38. The company has a current ratio of 3.91, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 97.37% and a net margin of 55.60%.The company had revenue of $68.13 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $65.56 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.89 EPS. NVIDIA’s revenue for the quarter was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 7.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th were paid a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 0.82%.

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.