NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Shares Down 1.5% – What’s Next?

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s share price was down 1.5% during mid-day trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as low as $208.20 and last traded at $213.4240. Approximately 178,838,614 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 3% from the average daily volume of 173,043,875 shares. The stock had previously closed at $216.61.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Blackwell platform and new Rubin chips are driving outsized data-center revenue and margin expansion, supporting the company’s longer-term growth thesis. NVDA’s Blackwell Platform Boosts its Top-Line Growth
• Positive Sentiment: Enterprise adoption evidence: Vultr is deploying NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Nano Omni for multimodal inference, a concrete customer win that underscores demand for NVIDIA model/inference stack outside hyperscalers. Vultr Deploys NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
• Positive Sentiment: Institutional flows and analyst support remain intact: a large fund added NVDA shares in the recent 13F period and major brokerages continue Buy/reiterated ratings, which can steady the stock through sector volatility. Fund Update: Alecta Adds NVDA Shares
• Positive Sentiment: Investor conviction pieces and buy-side commentary continue to back the long-term thesis (heavy AI-capex cycle, expanding software/network revenues), which supports a view that pullbacks are buying opportunities for some holders. Why I Keep Buying NVIDIA Stock
• Neutral Sentiment: Options and derivatives activity show traders are hedging and speculating both ways — some are betting on a return to record highs while others buy protection, indicating competing near-term views. Traders Bet Nvidia Will Return to Record Highs
• Negative Sentiment: Sector selloff triggered by reports OpenAI missed internal user/revenue targets — that report has pressured NVDA and peers because OpenAI is a high-profile customer and the news raises near-term demand uncertainty for AI infrastructure. Nvidia Stock Slides as OpenAI Fears Spark Selloff
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple market headlines and premarket notes amplified the OpenAI story and prompted short-term profit-taking across semiconductors, increasing intraday volatility and weighing on NVDA sentiment. Nvidia Shares Fall Amid Broader Chip Stock Selloff

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

NVDA has been the topic of a number of analyst reports. William Blair set a $300.00 price target on NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $250.00 to $265.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. UBS Group reissued a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, March 17th. Piper Sandler restated an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $250.00 price target on NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, January 8th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have issued a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $275.25.

NVIDIA Trading Down 1.5%

The business’s 50-day moving average price is $185.52 and its 200-day moving average price is $185.68. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.19 trillion, a PE ratio of 43.56, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.69 and a beta of 2.34. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a current ratio of 3.91 and a quick ratio of 3.24.

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

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th were paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, March 11th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is 0.82%.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director John Dabiri sold 3,004 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $184.90, for a total transaction of $555,439.60. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 14,788 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,734,301.20. This represents a 16.88% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 221,682 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $173.68, for a total value of $38,501,729.76. Following the sale, the director directly owned 7,399,771 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,285,192,227.28. The trade was a 2.91% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 953,976 shares of company stock valued at $171,173,819. Corporate insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On NVIDIA

Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of NVDA. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth approximately $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the first quarter worth $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC raised its position in NVIDIA by 47.9% in the second quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,000 after acquiring an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the second quarter valued at $40,000. Finally, Inspire Investing LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth $44,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

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.