NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Stock Holdings Lifted by Howland Capital Management LLC

Howland Capital Management LLC grew its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 14.9% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 626,042 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 81,221 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises about 4.5% of Howland Capital Management LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 5th largest position. Howland Capital Management LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $125,265,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other large investors have also made changes to their positions in NVDA. Defender Capital LLC. boosted its position in NVIDIA by 0.7% during the second quarter. Defender Capital LLC. now owns 7,534 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,507,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the period. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC grew its stake in NVIDIA by 3.8% in the 1st quarter. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC now owns 1,395 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $243,000 after buying an additional 51 shares during the last quarter. LMG Wealth Partners LLC raised its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.7% in the 4th quarter. LMG Wealth Partners LLC now owns 7,649 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,427,000 after acquiring an additional 53 shares during the period. Vision Financial Markets LLC lifted its position in NVIDIA by 1.2% during the 3rd quarter. Vision Financial Markets LLC now owns 4,640 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $866,000 after acquiring an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. Finally, JGP Global Gestao de Recursos Ltda. boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 2.3% during the fourth quarter. JGP Global Gestao de Recursos Ltda. now owns 2,402 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $448,000 after acquiring an additional 55 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s launch of the Groq 3 LPX into full production strengthens its inference-AI portfolio. The accelerator reportedly achieved 3,400 output tokens per second in benchmarking, while Nebius plans to become its first AI-cloud customer. NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX production announcement
• Positive Sentiment: The new Jetson Orin Nano 2 robotics computer delivers twice the inference performance of its predecessor at the same size and uses 40% less power, expanding NVIDIA’s opportunity in edge AI, robotics and autonomous systems. Jetson Orin Nano 2 announcement
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street expects another exceptionally strong quarter, with consensus revenue near $92 billion and approximately 95% year-over-year growth. Analysts including Raymond James, Rosenblatt, KeyBanc and Cantor Fitzgerald maintained bullish ratings and price targets ranging from $325 to $352. NVIDIA growth and Rubin earnings preview
• Neutral Sentiment: Options markets imply an unusually large post-earnings move, estimated at roughly 5.4% or approximately $280 billion in market value. Investors are focused on Rubin shipment growth, margins, hyperscaler demand, supply constraints and management’s forward guidance. NVIDIA options-implied earnings move
• Negative Sentiment: Despite strong expected results, NVIDIA entered earnings after a seven-session losing streak and is testing technical support. Investors increasingly worry that a simple earnings beat may already be priced in, particularly because the stock has often declined after prior beats. NVIDIA tests support ahead of earnings
• Negative Sentiment: Reports of potential 15% or greater price increases for next-generation AI servers could create customer resistance and give competing chips or custom silicon an opening. Concerns also persist around hyperscalers’ heavy capital spending, NVIDIA’s AI investments and financing arrangements, and possible competition from startups such as Etched and Cerebras. NVIDIA hyperscaler dependence
• Negative Sentiment: Taiwanese authorities indicted individuals, including employees linked to NVIDIA and Super Micro, over alleged illegal AI-server exports to China, adding regulatory and geopolitical risk. Taiwan AI-server export investigation

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $213.05 on Wednesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.16 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.63, a PEG ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 2.23. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.07 and a one year high of $236.54. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $207.50 and a 200 day simple moving average of $200.09. The company has a current ratio of 3.44, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04.

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

Analyst Ratings Changes

NVDA has been the subject of several research analyst reports. Wedbush boosted their price objective on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Tigress Financial reissued a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $425.00 price objective (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, May 27th. Evercore reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $413.00 target price (up from $352.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Truist Financial upped their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $287.00 to $307.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Wolfe Research restated an “outperform” rating and issued a $275.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-nine have given a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $308.46.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the firm’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 approximately $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. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 1,900,500 shares of company stock valued at $410,449,265. Corporate insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA 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.