NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Trading Down 1.5% After Insider Selling

Shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) traded down 1.5% during trading on Thursday following insider selling activity. The company traded as low as $181.75 and last traded at $183.1610. 154,107,314 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 14% from the average session volume of 180,122,875 shares. The stock had previously closed at $186.03.

Specifically, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $182.52, for a total value of $54,756,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 3,318,547 shares in the company, valued at approximately $605,701,198.44. This trade represents a 8.29% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts recently issued reports on NVDA shares. Sanford C. Bernstein raised their price objective on NVIDIA from $275.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Rothschild & Co Redburn increased their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $245.00 to $268.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 15th. Citigroup raised their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $270.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, DA Davidson reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $250.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, February 23rd. 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 company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $274.21.

NVIDIA News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced a $2 billion strategic investment in Nebius to build hyperscale AI cloud capacity (multi‑GW deployments by 2030), validating long‑term GPU demand and prompting a strong rally in Nebius. Nvidia to invest $2 billion in AI cloud firm Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super, an advanced open AI model aimed at agentic AI — a move that expands software/IP monetization and increases demand for its data‑center GPUs. NVIDIA Releases New Nemotron 3 Super Model
• Positive Sentiment: New partnerships and ecosystem wins (Thinking Machines Lab compute commitments; startups like Scintil Photonics moving to customer testing) deepen demand visibility for NVIDIA’s Vera/Rubin systems and optical interconnect roadmap. NVIDIA Enters Partnership With Thinking Machines Lab
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors are watching the upcoming GTC conference as a potential catalyst for product announcements and guidance — it could swing sentiment either way. Nvidia stock stuck below $190: can GTC event be a catalyst?
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader market volatility and geopolitics (oil price swings, CPI noise) are capping risk appetite for high‑beta mega‑cap tech names like NVDA. Dow Jones Futures Fall; Crude Oil Prices Top $90
• Negative Sentiment: Reports say the U.S. Commerce Dept. is drafting rules that would require permits for AI chip exports — a policy that could materially constrain NVIDIA’s global sales and cloud deployments if implemented. US Mulling Rule Requiring Permits for NVIDIA Global AI Chip Sales
• Negative Sentiment: An EVP executed a large sale (300,000 shares), and analysts/press note some investors are booking profits after recent gains — both contribute to near‑term selling pressure. NVIDIA EVP Sells $54,756,000.00 in Stock
• Negative Sentiment: High‑profile criticism (e.g., Michael Burry’s remarks) and heightened headline risk can amplify short‑term bearish flows, even as fundamentals remain strong. Michael Burry warns Nvidia ‘is mafia-like’

NVIDIA Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a current ratio of 3.91. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $185.52 and its two-hundred day moving average is $184.07. The firm has a market cap of $4.45 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 37.38, a PEG ratio of 0.63 and a beta of 2.33.

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

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

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

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. bought a new position in NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at about $26,000. Winnow Wealth LLC bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth about $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 47.9% in 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 period. Inspire Investing LLC acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter worth approximately $44,000. Finally, AlphaCentric Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $45,000. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

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.