Vawter Financial Ltd. Boosts Holdings in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Vawter Financial Ltd. raised its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 13.1% in the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 1,864 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 216 shares during the quarter. Vawter Financial Ltd.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $202,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Allium Financial Advisors LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the first quarter worth approximately $4,550,000. FourThought Financial Partners LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 1.1% in the first quarter. FourThought Financial Partners LLC now owns 180,143 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $19,524,000 after acquiring an additional 1,896 shares during the last quarter. Brown Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 5.1% in the first quarter. Brown Wealth Management LLC now owns 16,080 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,743,000 after acquiring an additional 787 shares during the last quarter. Integrated Investment Consultants LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 27.4% in the first quarter. Integrated Investment Consultants LLC now owns 16,096 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,744,000 after acquiring an additional 3,463 shares during the last quarter. Finally, BlueStem Wealth Partners LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 33.6% in the first quarter. BlueStem Wealth Partners LLC now owns 15,009 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,627,000 after acquiring an additional 3,772 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity

In related news, Director Tench Coxe sold 1,000,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Monday, June 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $142.80, for a total value of $142,800,000.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 26,671,360 shares in the company, valued at $3,808,670,208. This trade represents a 3.61% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 168,195 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $152.64, for a total transaction of $25,673,284.80. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 4,018,547 shares in the company, valued at approximately $613,391,014.08. This trade represents a 4.02% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 5,912,440 shares of company stock valued at $902,886,782. Corporate insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NVIDIA stock opened at $179.81 on Tuesday. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $168.05 and its 200-day simple moving average is $137.81. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.39 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 58.00, a PEG ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 2.14. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $184.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10, a current ratio of 3.39 and a quick ratio of 2.96.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, May 28th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.87 by ($0.06). The business had revenue of $44.06 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $43.09 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 51.69% and a return on equity of 105.09%. The business’s revenue was up 69.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.61 earnings per share. NVIDIA has set its Q2 2026 guidance at EPS. As a group, equities analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Investors of record on Wednesday, June 11th were given 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, June 11th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 1.29%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Robert W. Baird lifted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $195.00 to $225.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday. Jefferies Financial Group lifted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $185.00 to $200.00 in a research note on Wednesday, July 16th. UBS Group lifted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $175.00 to $205.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 21st. Mizuho raised their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $192.00 to $205.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 14th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reissued an “overweight” rating and set a $206.00 price objective (up previously from $200.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, August 18th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have given a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $194.31.

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications.