NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is Prospera Financial Services Inc’s 4th Largest Position

Prospera Financial Services Inc grew its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 4.1% in the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 1,165,618 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 45,447 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up 3.4% of Prospera Financial Services Inc’s portfolio, making the stock its 4th biggest holding. Prospera Financial Services Inc’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $233,246,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Amarillo National Bank raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1.2% in the second quarter. Amarillo National Bank now owns 58,060 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $11,617,000 after buying an additional 668 shares in the last quarter. First PREMIER Bank grew its position in NVIDIA by 7.1% during the second quarter. First PREMIER Bank now owns 13,415 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,684,000 after buying an additional 886 shares in the last quarter. Reliant Investment Management LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 961.5% in the 2nd quarter. Reliant Investment Management LLC now owns 26,612 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $5,325,000 after acquiring an additional 24,105 shares during the last quarter. Birch Financial Group LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 2.7% in the 2nd quarter. Birch Financial Group LLC now owns 10,911 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,183,000 after acquiring an additional 291 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Syntegra Private Wealth Group LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 2.0% in the 2nd quarter. Syntegra Private Wealth Group LLC now owns 30,960 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $6,195,000 after acquiring an additional 619 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts have recently issued reports on the company. KeyCorp reiterated an “overweight” rating and set a $330.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Monday, August 24th. Citic Securities upped their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $242.00 to $315.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. The Goldman Sachs Group reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and issued a $300.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday. Tigress Financial reiterated a “strong-buy” rating and set a $425.00 target price (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, May 27th. Finally, Robert W. Baird set a $500.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $322.61.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In other news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s 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 sale, the director directly owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This trade represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold 1,900,500 shares of company stock valued at $410,449,265 over the last three months. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $217.55 on Monday. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.24 trillion, a P/E ratio of 27.50, a PEG ratio of 1.71 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 firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $208.09 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $200.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a current ratio of 4.59 and a quick ratio of 3.85.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The firm had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.05 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be paid a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 12.64%.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically a sign that the company’s board believes its stock is undervalued.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA reported fiscal Q2 revenue of approximately $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year and ahead of Wall Street expectations. Data-center revenue rose 117% to $89 billion, while adjusted EPS of $2.22 also exceeded consensus. The results reinforced that hyperscaler AI spending remains robust. Nvidia rises after signaling longer AI spending runway
• Positive Sentiment: Management guided to roughly $108 billion in fiscal Q3 revenue and indicated that fiscal 2028 sales could grow about 70%, well above the roughly 45% growth analysts had modeled. The forecast has shifted the debate from whether AI demand is slowing to whether NVIDIA and its suppliers can build enough capacity. Nvidia’s 70% growth forecast
• Positive Sentiment: Several analysts raised their NVIDIA price targets following the results, including Wedbush, Truist, RBC and JPMorgan. The upgrades reflect expectations for sustained Blackwell demand, the Vera Rubin product ramp and strong order visibility through fiscal 2028. Wedbush lifts Nvidia price target
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly pursuing a roughly $12.9 billion acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face. The deal could expand NVIDIA’s software ecosystem and improve visibility into future AI workloads, but reports indicate terms may not be finalized and the valuation is high relative to Hugging Face’s revenue. Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face report
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are locking in gains after NVIDIA’s strong post-earnings rally. The stock’s elevated valuation and proximity to record levels make it vulnerable to short-term profit-taking even though fundamentals remain strong. Nvidia AMD Intel stocks slide as investors take profits
• Negative Sentiment: Gross-margin expectations are moving lower toward roughly 72%–73% as NVIDIA absorbs higher memory, packaging and infrastructure costs. Management also said supply constraints remain significant, potentially limiting how much demand can immediately translate into revenue and cash flow.
• Negative Sentiment: Broader market pressure is coming from a more hawkish Federal Reserve outlook, while NVIDIA’s decision to exclude China data-center compute revenue from its forecast underscores continuing export-control and geopolitical risks. Reports that the company paused some revenue-sharing arrangements with AI cloud providers also raise questions about financing and customer ROI. Nvidia pauses revenue-sharing deals

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.