NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is Bristlecone Advisors LLC’s 3rd Largest Position

Bristlecone Advisors LLC decreased its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 1.0% during the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 259,999 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 2,754 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up about 4.1% of Bristlecone Advisors LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 3rd largest position. Bristlecone Advisors LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $48,511,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Harbor Asset Planning Inc. purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Winnow Wealth LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the second quarter worth approximately $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 47.9% during the 2nd 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 last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter valued at $40,000. Finally, EDENTREE ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd bought a new position in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at $54,000. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Trading Up 1.1%

NVDA opened at $188.52 on Wednesday. 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 firm has a market cap of $4.58 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.78, a PEG ratio of 0.91 and a beta of 2.31. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $212.19. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $183.52 and a 200-day moving average price of $182.14.

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

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

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

Insider Buying and Selling

In other NVIDIA news, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total value of $44,332,500.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 6,933,280 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,229,478,542.40. The trade was a 3.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 69,840 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, December 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.85, for a total value of $12,421,044.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 1,424,603 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $253,365,643.55. This represents a 4.67% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold 1,611,474 shares of company stock valued at $293,285,232 over the last quarter. Insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms have recently weighed in on NVDA. KeyCorp lifted their target price on NVIDIA from $250.00 to $275.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Bank of America reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $275.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Friday, December 26th. Macquarie raised shares of NVIDIA to an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Raymond James Financial restated a “strong-buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, January 6th. Finally, Robert W. Baird reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $275.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Friday, December 26th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $263.41.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia agreed to a $2 billion strategic investment in CoreWeave to accelerate a multi‑GW AI data‑center build‑out — a direct vote of confidence in demand for Nvidia GPUs and software, and a move that helps secure deployment capacity for future GPU sales. Nvidia invests $2 billion in CoreWeave
• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia released open‑source AI weather models — boosts its software/ecosystem positioning, increases GPU utilization cases, and reinforces the company’s role beyond hardware into model and platform leadership. Nvidia unveils AI models for weather forecasts
• Positive Sentiment: Industry and analyst commentary remain supportive (including views that Nvidia is becoming TSMC’s largest customer), reinforcing the growth narrative tied to AI training demand and helping underpin multiples. Nvidia set to supplant Apple as TSMC’s top customer
• Neutral Sentiment: Microsoft’s Maia 200 launch (a cost‑efficient inference accelerator) could reduce some hyperscaler spend on third‑party inference hardware over time, but it mainly targets inference while Nvidia remains dominant for training — competitive dynamics are evolving but not yet decisive. Microsoft’s Maia 200: The Profit Engine AI Needs
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader tech earnings and macro events (Magnificent 7 reports, Fed meeting) are creating short‑term volatility that could swing NVDA intraday; these are market‑level catalysts rather than company‑specific. Magnificent 7 earnings season kicks off
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling: an NVDA executive recently sold roughly $36M of stock, which can be read as a near‑term negative signal for sentiment even if not unusual among executives. Insider selling: NVIDIA EVP sells stock
• Negative Sentiment: Competitive pressure is increasing as hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, AWS) push their own silicon and software stacks — this is a medium‑term risk to Nvidia’s premium pricing on certain inference workloads. Microsoft rolls out next generation of its AI chips

NVIDIA Company 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.