Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Acquires 42,927 Shares of NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 2.9% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 1,534,622 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 42,927 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for approximately 1.7% of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.’s portfolio, making the stock its 14th largest position. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $286,330,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Benchmark Investment Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA in the third quarter valued at approximately $33,710,000. Chesapeake Capital Corp IL purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $1,149,000. Capital Wealth Planning LLC increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 198.5% in the 3rd quarter. Capital Wealth Planning LLC now owns 209,238 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $39,040,000 after buying an additional 139,139 shares during the last quarter. Columbus Hill Capital Management L.P. raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 59.6% during the 3rd quarter. Columbus Hill Capital Management L.P. now owns 154,800 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $28,883,000 after buying an additional 57,800 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Compass Wealth Management LLC GA raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 0.5% during the 3rd quarter. Compass Wealth Management LLC GA now owns 51,676 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $9,643,000 after buying an additional 241 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

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

Insider Activity

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total value of $40,087,825.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 7,621,453 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,373,157,187.01. This trade represents a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 27,640 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $175.72, for a total value of $4,856,900.80. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 846,772 shares in the company, valued at approximately $148,794,775.84. This represents a 3.16% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last three months, insiders sold 1,267,780 shares of company stock valued at $229,929,215. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts recently issued reports on NVDA shares. Citigroup upped their target price 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. Melius Research raised their price target on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $320.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Mizuho set a $275.00 price objective on NVIDIA and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, January 9th. HSBC set a $310.00 price objective on NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, February 24th. Finally, DZ Bank reissued a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA 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 issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $274.21.

NVIDIA Trading Down 1.6%

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $180.25 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $4.38 trillion, a PE ratio of 36.79, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.62 and a beta of 2.33. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1-year low of $86.62 and a 1-year high of $212.19. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $185.35 and a 200-day moving average of $184.07. The company has a current ratio of 3.91, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05.

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

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

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

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.