NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Shares Sold by First Merchants Corp

First Merchants Corp lessened its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 6.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 159,270 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 11,550 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA comprises about 1.1% of First Merchants Corp’s holdings, making the stock its 20th largest holding. First Merchants Corp’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $29,717,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Harbor Asset Planning Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Winnow Wealth LLC acquired a new position in NVIDIA in the second quarter valued at approximately $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC grew 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 during the period. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC acquired a new stake in NVIDIA during the second quarter worth $40,000. Finally, EDENTREE ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd purchased a new stake in NVIDIA in the second quarter valued at $54,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research firms have recently weighed in on NVDA. Citic Securities increased their price target on NVIDIA from $237.00 to $242.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, November 20th. Piper Sandler reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, January 8th. Oppenheimer reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $265.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. President Capital upped their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $240.00 to $245.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, November 28th. Finally, Wolfe Research lifted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $230.00 to $250.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, November 20th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have given a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $263.41.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total transaction of $40,087,825.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 7,621,453 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,373,157,187.01. The trade was a 2.84% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 27,640 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $184.92, for a total value of $5,111,188.80. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 874,412 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $161,696,267.04. This represents a 3.06% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last three months, insiders sold 1,536,474 shares of company stock worth $281,144,482. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

NVIDIA Trading Up 3.0%

NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $183.34 on Thursday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $86.62 and a 12-month high of $212.19. The firm has a market cap of $4.46 trillion, a PE ratio of 45.49, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.87 and a beta of 2.31. The company has a current ratio of 4.47, a quick ratio of 3.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $183.47 and a 200 day moving average price of $181.30.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 19th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.23 by $0.07. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 99.24% and a net margin of 53.01%.The company had revenue of $57.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $54.66 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.81 EPS. NVIDIA’s revenue for the quarter was up 62.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 4th were given a $0.01 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 4th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is currently 0.99%.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang’s Davos message — calling for “trillions” more in AI infrastructure spending and arguing the AI buildout will create jobs — reinforced the long‑term capex story that underpins NVDA’s growth. Nvidia CEO Says AI Needs More Investment
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA invested in AI inference startup Baseten (reported as ~$150M), signaling product/stack expansion into model deployment and strengthening its software+services moat. Nvidia Invests in Baseten
• Positive Sentiment: Fresh analyst optimism and rating moves (e.g., Zacks upgrade, JPMorgan reaffirmation) support upside expectations and provide near‑term buying interest. NVDA Upgraded to Strong Buy
• Positive Sentiment: Demand signals remain strong: Micron confirmed near‑full memory sell‑through to AI leaders, underscoring continued hyperscaler spending into GPU servers (a tailwind for NVIDIA). Micron Confirms Sell‑Through
• Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang plans a China trip to try to reopen access to that critical market — a direct catalyst if regulatory approvals and customer access improve. Huang Plans China Visit
• Neutral Sentiment: Market rotation into storage/memory (from compute) is gaining headlines — this could reallocate some flows away from GPUs in the short term even as overall AI infrastructure spending grows. Forget the Chips, Buy Memory
• Negative Sentiment: China clearance for NVIDIA’s H200 appears “stuck” on China’s side despite U.S. approval — if unresolved this limits NVDA’s addressable market and near‑term revenue upside from China. H200 Decision Stuck in China
• Negative Sentiment: Reports of H200 component production halts and supply/production snags could delay shipments and incremental revenue in the near term. H200 Component Production Halted
• Negative Sentiment: A small patent‑infringement suit was filed (Health Discovery) — legal noise that currently seems immaterial but adds another headline risk. Health Discovery Sues NVIDIA

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.