Alliancebernstein L.P. Lowers Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Alliancebernstein L.P. decreased its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 0.6% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 114,508,398 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 744,330 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for about 6.7% of Alliancebernstein L.P.’s portfolio, making the stock its largest holding. Alliancebernstein L.P. owned approximately 0.47% of NVIDIA worth $21,364,977,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of NVDA. State Street Corp boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.0% in the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 978,208,862 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $154,556,803,000 after buying an additional 9,554,857 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its position in NVIDIA by 1.5% during the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 579,213,497 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $91,150,170,000 after buying an additional 8,521,936 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new position in NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth $51,386,863,000. Legal & General Group Plc increased its stake in NVIDIA by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 181,203,035 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,808,862,000 after acquiring an additional 2,609,560 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors raised its holdings in NVIDIA by 16.1% in the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $30,855,564,000 after acquiring an additional 22,896,705 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA struck a high‑profile strategic deal, committing $2 billion to Nebius to scale hyperscale AI cloud capacity — a move that secures future demand for NVIDIA GPUs and signals long‑term revenue/market share benefits. NVIDIA Bets $2 Billion on Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 (an advanced open AI model) and continues to push agentic‑AI positioning — extending software/IP monetization beyond chips and supporting higher attach rates for its data‑center stack. NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3
• Positive Sentiment: Reports show ByteDance is assembling AI capacity using NVIDIA’s top chips outside China, which reinforces global enterprise demand for NVIDIA hardware. ByteDance Access to Nvidia AI Chips
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors are focused on next week’s GTC where NVIDIA is expected to emphasize new CPU and system announcements (the company says CPUs are becoming a bottleneck for agentic AI) — the event can swing sentiment either way depending on product details and guidance. Nvidia’s GTC will mark an AI chip pivot
• Neutral Sentiment: Macro and geopolitical risks (oil price moves, regional conflicts) are elevating market volatility and capping near‑term upside for high‑beta AI names like NVDA. Dow Jones Futures Fall; Crude Oil Prices Top $90
• Neutral Sentiment: Competing chip/cloud moves — e.g., Cerebras partnering with Amazon to offer alternative AI accelerators — underline growing competition in AI compute, a factor to monitor for margin/market‑share dynamics. Cerebras and Amazon deal
• Negative Sentiment: A sizable insider sale (EVP Ajay Puri sold 300,000 shares) has been flagged by the market and can feed short‑term profit‑taking narratives. Ajay K. Puri insider sale filing
• Negative Sentiment: U.S. policymakers are considering tighter export/permit controls on advanced AI chips — any formal restriction would directly affect NVIDIA’s addressable market and create regulatory uncertainty. US mulling export permits for Nvidia chips

NVIDIA Stock Down 1.6%

NVDA stock opened at $180.25 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $185.35 and a 200-day moving average price of $184.09. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $212.19. The company has a current ratio of 3.91, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.38 trillion, a P/E ratio of 36.79, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $68.13 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $65.56 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The firm’s revenue was up 73.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.89 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be issued a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 11th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 0.82%.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In other news, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $182.52, for a total transaction of $54,756,000.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 3,318,547 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $605,701,198.44. This trade represents a 8.29% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated 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 sale, 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. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 1,267,780 shares of company stock worth $229,929,215. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

NVDA has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Itau BBA Securities reaffirmed a “market perform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. HSBC set a $310.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Tuesday, February 24th. Zacks Research raised shares of NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. TD Cowen reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $235.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Raymond James Financial reissued a “strong-buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, January 6th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have issued a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $274.21.

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.