Gryphon Financial Partners LLC Purchases 21,979 Shares of NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Gryphon Financial Partners LLC raised its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 15.4% in the first quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 164,538 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 21,979 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up approximately 2.9% of Gryphon Financial Partners LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 5th biggest position. Gryphon Financial Partners LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $28,695,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the business. Morling Financial Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 13.1% during the first quarter. Morling Financial Advisors LLC now owns 13,402 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,337,000 after acquiring an additional 1,548 shares during the last quarter. Astra Wealth Partners LLC boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 7.2% in the first quarter. Astra Wealth Partners LLC now owns 11,762 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $2,051,000 after purchasing an additional 791 shares during the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. grew its stake in NVIDIA by 1.3% during the 1st quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 5,856,371 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $1,021,351,000 after purchasing an additional 73,458 shares in the last quarter. NovaPoint Capital LLC grew its stake in NVIDIA by 3.9% during the 1st quarter. NovaPoint Capital LLC now owns 76,009 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $13,256,000 after purchasing an additional 2,858 shares in the last quarter. Finally, PeakShares LLC increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 29.9% during the 1st quarter. PeakShares LLC now owns 11,438 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,995,000 after purchasing an additional 2,630 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

NVIDIA News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang is emphasizing robotics and “physical AI” as the next major growth market, spanning autonomous machines, vehicles, factories and data centers. The company’s expanded Agent Toolkit, PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries are also being adopted by Cadence, Siemens, Synopsys, Samsung and Silvaco, supporting a broader software-and-platform ecosystem beyond GPU sales. NVIDIA robotics growth article
• Positive Sentiment: New strategic relationships with Safe Superintelligence, OpenAI, NAVER and other infrastructure partners could increase demand for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin and Blackwell systems. Analysts remain broadly bullish, with reported price targets well above current trading levels. NVIDIA Safe Superintelligence investment article
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly discussing a potential backstop of up to $250 billion for OpenAI’s Ohio data-center project, alongside a much larger overall infrastructure plan. The arrangement could lock in substantial future chip demand, but it would also expand NVIDIA’s role from supplier to financier and expose it to OpenAI’s creditworthiness and project-execution risks. NVIDIA OpenAI financing article
• Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned that vendor-backed AI infrastructure spending represents circular financing rather than organic customer demand. Reports that NVIDIA could guarantee OpenAI-related obligations helped trigger a broad chip-stock selloff, while rising default-insurance costs have intensified balance-sheet concerns. NVIDIA default insurance costs article
• Negative Sentiment: Taiwanese authorities reportedly detained an NVIDIA employee in a probe involving alleged diversion of Super Micro AI servers to China. Although no wrongdoing by NVIDIA has been established, the investigation raises additional export-control, legal and reputational risks. Intensifying Chinese competition and weakness across Asian chip stocks are adding pressure to the sector. Taiwan NVIDIA employee investigation article

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total transaction of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. The trade was a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the transaction, the director 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 disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock valued at $410,583,015 over the last three months. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have recently commented on NVDA shares. BTIG Research began coverage on NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, April 15th. They set a “buy” rating for the company. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “hold” rating and set a $255.00 price objective (up from $220.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Itau BBA Securities decreased their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a report on Wednesday, June 24th. CICC Research boosted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $240.60 to $268.30 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Finally, Melius Research set a $400.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Three 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 company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $304.26.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $197.01 on Wednesday. The company has a quick ratio of 2.85, a current ratio of 3.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $206.86 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $195.98. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52-week low of $164.07 and a 52-week high of $236.54. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.77 trillion, a P/E ratio of 30.17, a P/E/G ratio of 0.38 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 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. The company had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.94% and a net margin of 62.97%.The business’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 earnings per share. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization permits the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 4th were paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.5%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 4th. This is an increase from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 15.31%.

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.