NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Stake Cut by Howard Wealth Management LLC

Howard Wealth Management LLC cut its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 43.4% in the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 3,808 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 2,918 shares during the quarter. Howard Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $711,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors also recently made changes to their positions in the business. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% in the third quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC now owns 605,124 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $112,904,000 after purchasing an additional 1,624 shares in the last quarter. Adamsbrown Wealth Consultants LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 2.9% in the 3rd quarter. Adamsbrown Wealth Consultants LLC now owns 20,282 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $3,784,000 after buying an additional 575 shares during the period. Novare Capital Management LLC lifted its position in NVIDIA by 0.9% in the 3rd quarter. Novare Capital Management LLC now owns 220,312 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $41,106,000 after buying an additional 1,909 shares in the last quarter. Disciplined Investments LLC lifted its position in NVIDIA by 8.6% in the 3rd quarter. Disciplined Investments LLC now owns 13,504 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,520,000 after buying an additional 1,068 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Inman Jager Wealth Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 18.4% during the 3rd quarter. Inman Jager Wealth Management LLC now owns 5,857 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $1,093,000 after buying an additional 912 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Expanded, multiyear deal with Meta commits Meta to millions of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs plus future Vera CPUs and networking — a multi‑year revenue stream and stronger full‑stack moat for NVDA. NVIDIA and Meta Deepen Their AI Alliance—and the Spending Numbers Are Enormous
• Positive Sentiment: India’s Yotta will build a $2B AI hub using NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips — another sizeable, practical deployment that supports sustained data‑center GPU demand outside the U.S./China hyperscalers. India’s Yotta to build $2 billion AI hub with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips
• Positive Sentiment: NVDA’s Q4 13F shows strategic portfolio moves (large stakes in Intel & Synopsys, exits of smaller positions) signaling a deliberate alignment across the CPU/EDA stack — suggests management is positioning the company for broader full‑stack influence. NVIDIA’s 13F Bombshell: A New AI Power Trio Emerges
• Neutral Sentiment: FT/Reuters report says NVIDIA is close to finalizing a ~$30B investment into an OpenAI funding round — could lock up demand but also concentrates capital exposure; market reaction will depend on deal terms and accounting. Nvidia close to finalizing $30 billion investment in OpenAI funding round, FT reports
• Neutral Sentiment: Options markets show investors are pricing in a near‑perfect earnings print, implying elevated implied volatility around the Feb. 25 report — good for directional swings but raises risk of sharp post‑earnings moves. Nvidia options are priced for a perfect earnings outlook
• Negative Sentiment: New funding for chip startup Taalas ($169M) targets faster/cheaper AI chips — an early sign of intensifying ASIC competition that could, over time, pressure pricing or market share in niche workloads. Chip startup Taalas raises $169 million to help build AI chips to take on Nvidia
• Negative Sentiment: Ongoing investor rotations and high expectations: some funds trimmed NVDA exposure (and analysts warn a record beat could still disappoint if guidance/slash‑forward assumptions disappoint), magnifying downside risk if the print misses consensus. Nvidia Q4: Why Even A Record ‘Beat’ Could Sink The Stock

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages recently issued reports on NVDA. Sanford C. Bernstein reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, January 28th. William Blair reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, January 6th. KeyCorp lifted their price target on NVIDIA from $250.00 to $275.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, November 20th. CICC Research boosted their price target on NVIDIA from $200.00 to $228.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, November 21st. Finally, Rothschild & Co Redburn increased their price objective on NVIDIA from $245.00 to $268.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 15th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-six have assigned a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $264.20.

NVIDIA Stock Down 0.0%

NVIDIA stock opened at $187.90 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 4.47 and a quick ratio of 3.71. NVIDIA Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $86.62 and a fifty-two week high of $212.19. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $184.90 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $183.52. The firm has a market cap of $4.57 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.63, a P/E/G ratio of 0.57 and a beta of 2.31.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly 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. 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 the consensus estimate of $54.66 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.81 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 62.5% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total transaction of $44,332,500.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 6,933,280 shares in the company, valued at $1,229,478,542.40. The trade was a 3.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total value 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. This represents a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 1,611,474 shares of company stock worth $291,731,692. Corporate insiders own 4.17% 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.