NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Trading 1% Higher – Here’s What Happened

Shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) shot up 1% during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as high as $191.37 and last traded at $189.15. 152,197,260 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 8% from the average session volume of 165,099,484 shares. The stock had previously closed at $187.24.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Vera Rubin / Rubin platform in production — Nvidia unveiled its Rubin chip architecture and says the Vera Rubin platform is in production, which supports faster training and lower inference costs across data‑center customers; that credibility for next‑gen GPUs underpins upside to data‑center revenue. Nvidia launches powerful new Rubin chip architecture
• Positive Sentiment: Alpamayo open models for autonomous vehicles — Nvidia released the Alpamayo family (reasoning VLA models, simulator and large AV datasets) and secured industry partners; this expands TAM beyond data centers into ADAS/robotaxi fleets and signals new revenue channels (software, tools, partner integrations). NVIDIA Announces Alpamayo Family
• Positive Sentiment: Commercial partnerships accelerate enterprise adoption — New collaborations (e.g., Caterpillar for AI in construction, Siemens for industrial AI, Lenovo gigafactory partnerships) increase potential large‑scale deployments of Nvidia stacks across industrial and cloud customers. Caterpillar taps Nvidia
• Positive Sentiment: Strategic investments and ecosystem wins — Nvidia participated in large private financings (xAI’s $20B round among others) and cloud partners are lining up Rubin deployments, which supports long‑term GPU demand and recurring software/services revenue. xAI raises $20B with Nvidia backing
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst outlook remains constructive but mixed on valuation — Bank of America and other firms keep bullish ratings and elevated price targets (Bank of America $275), supporting sentiment while valuation multiples remain high versus historical norms. Bank of America maintains buy and $275 target
• Negative Sentiment: Regulatory/China trade friction — Reports say Chinese authorities instructed some firms to pause H200 orders; a policy reversal or stricter domestic‑purchase mandates would hit a sizable addressable market and create near‑term uncertainty about revenue from China. Reuters: China asks tech firms halt orders for Nvidia H200 chips
• Negative Sentiment: Sentiment/visibility risks: cooling and capital‑allocation concerns — CEO comments on reduced cooling needs pressured data‑center cooling peers (a reminder that some adjacencies may decelerate), and some analysts/voices flag aggressive M&A/investment pace and insider selling as governance or capital‑discipline questions to watch. Reuters: Data center cooling stocks drop after Huang’s comments

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. KeyCorp raised their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $250.00 to $275.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, November 20th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft boosted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $180.00 to $215.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $240.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Wells Fargo & Company reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, December 29th. Finally, Loop Capital increased their price target on NVIDIA from $250.00 to $350.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, November 3rd. Five analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-six have assigned a Buy rating, two have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $262.14.

NVIDIA Stock Up 1.0%

The company has a current ratio of 4.47, a quick ratio of 3.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06. The company has a market cap of $4.60 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.94, a P/E/G ratio of 0.92 and a beta of 2.31. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $186.28 and its 200-day moving average is $179.14.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November 19th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.30 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.23 by $0.07. The firm had revenue of $57.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $54.66 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 53.01% and a return on equity of 99.24%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 62.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.81 earnings per share. On average, analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 4th were paid a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 4th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 0.99%.

Insider Activity

In other news, Director A Brooke Seawell sold 12,728 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $183.93, for a total transaction of $2,341,061.04. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 30,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $178.11, for a total transaction of $5,432,355.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 1,286,826 shares in the company, valued at $229,196,578.86. This represents a 2.32% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 1,786,474 shares of company stock valued at $326,293,242. Corporate insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of large investors have recently modified their holdings of NVDA. State Street Corp lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1.0% during 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 purchasing an additional 9,554,857 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 1.5% in the 2nd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 579,213,497 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $91,150,170,000 after buying an additional 8,521,936 shares during the last quarter. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 267,959.7% in the 2nd quarter. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC now owns 382,373,765 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $64,976,521,000 after buying an additional 382,231,120 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $51,386,863,000. Finally, UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 2.9% in the 1st quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 206,794,926 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $22,412,434,000 after buying an additional 5,896,735 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

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.