Ajay Puri Sells 300,000 Shares of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Stock

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) EVP Ajay Puri sold 300,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, March 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $182.25, for a total value of $54,675,000.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 3,018,547 shares in the company, valued at $550,130,190.75. This trade represents a 9.04% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NVDA stock opened at $172.76 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $4.20 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.26, a PEG ratio of 0.58 and a beta of 2.33. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $212.19. The company has a quick ratio of 3.24, a current ratio of 3.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $184.60 and a 200 day moving average price of $184.20.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released 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. The company had revenue of $68.13 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $65.56 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The company’s revenue was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.89 EPS. Research analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm 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 $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is currently 0.82%.

Institutional Trading of NVIDIA

A number of large investors have recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Purpose Unlimited Inc. bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the fourth quarter worth about $193,047,000. Painted Porch Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 2.9% during the 4th quarter. Painted Porch Advisors LLC now owns 2,192 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $409,000 after purchasing an additional 61 shares in the last quarter. Stance Capital LLC grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 229.2% in the 4th quarter. Stance Capital LLC now owns 24,914 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $4,646,000 after purchasing an additional 17,347 shares during the period. Cornerstone Planning LLC acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $13,701,000. Finally, AMG Asset Management Group Inc. bought a new stake in NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth approximately $2,137,000. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Major cloud order visibility — Nvidia told Amazon Web Services it will sell ~1 million AI chips plus systems by end-2027, reinforcing multi-year revenue visibility and datacenter demand. Nvidia to sell 1 million chips to Amazon by 2027
• Positive Sentiment: GTC highlights and blowout quarter underpin the long-term bull case — management projected a multi‑year $1T+ AI revenue opportunity and posted a $68.13B quarter that beat expectations, supporting conviction in NVDA’s platform moat. GTC keynote and quarter reaction
• Positive Sentiment: Robust partner/customer momentum — multiple infrastructure partners (Cadence, CoreWeave, Coherent) and public comments from big customers (Elon Musk: Tesla/SpaceX will keep buying) signal persistent demand across cloud, AI and automotive. Strong Micron results also validate surging HBM demand tied to Nvidia GPUs. Partner and customer demand context
• Neutral Sentiment: Product roadmap/consumer tech updates (e.g., DLSS 5) strengthen long-term gaming/graphics positioning but are unlikely to move earnings in the near term. DLSS 5 technical details
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst upgrades and lofty price targets (Raymond James, others) support upside narratives but much of that optimism appears priced in after GTC. Price target/upgrade coverage
• Negative Sentiment: Regulatory/PR overhang — U.S. prosecutors charged associates tied to a server maker for allegedly smuggling Nvidia‑powered servers to China; while Nvidia isn’t accused, the story raises geopolitical/supply‑chain scrutiny around its chips. Bloomberg: Super Micro smuggling charges
• Negative Sentiment: Tax/headline risk — new disclosures show Nvidia made a large U.S. tax payment reported at ~$17B, which investors may view as a cash/timing headwind or governance disclosure to digest. WSJ: $17B U.S. tax payment
• Negative Sentiment: Technical and sentiment pressure — charts showed a bearish signal after GTC and options flow indicated heavy call selling/put buying (sell‑the‑news), creating short‑term downside risk despite strong fundamentals. MarketWatch: bearish technical signal

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

NVDA has been the subject of several recent research reports. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, February 28th. Tigress Financial restated a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $360.00 price target (up from $350.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, March 5th. Wells Fargo & Company reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $250.00 price objective on NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, January 8th. Finally, DA Davidson reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $250.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, February 23rd. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have issued a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, NVIDIA has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $275.40.

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.