Optimum Investment Advisors Lowers Stake in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Optimum Investment Advisors decreased its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 3.5% during the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 83,830 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 3,000 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for 6.2% of Optimum Investment Advisors’ portfolio, making the stock its 2nd largest position. Optimum Investment Advisors’ holdings in NVIDIA were worth $15,641,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Websterrogers Financial Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 2.6% in the 3rd quarter. Websterrogers Financial Advisors LLC now owns 2,118 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $395,000 after purchasing an additional 54 shares in the last quarter. Helen Stephens Group LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 3.9% during the third quarter. Helen Stephens Group LLC now owns 1,483 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $277,000 after purchasing an additional 56 shares during the period. Morton Brown Family Wealth LLC increased its position in NVIDIA by 1.5% in the second quarter. Morton Brown Family Wealth LLC now owns 3,928 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $621,000 after buying an additional 58 shares in the last quarter. Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% in the second quarter. Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC now owns 20,903 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,302,000 after buying an additional 58 shares during the period. Finally, Alpha Wealth Funds LLC lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1.3% during the 2nd quarter. Alpha Wealth Funds LLC now owns 4,634 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $732,000 after buying an additional 59 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts have commented on the stock. Barclays raised their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $240.00 to $275.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. Mizuho set a $275.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday. BNP Paribas Exane upped their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $240.00 to $250.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 18th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Finally, Citic Securities boosted their price objective on NVIDIA from $237.00 to $242.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-six have given 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 currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $262.84.

NVIDIA Trading Up 0.0%

Shares of NVDA stock opened at $184.94 on Tuesday. 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 stock has a market capitalization of $4.49 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 45.89, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.90 and a beta of 2.31. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $86.62 and a 12-month high of $212.19. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $184.78 and its 200-day moving average price is $180.14.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its quarterly earnings results 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. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 99.24% and a net margin of 53.01%.The business had revenue of $57.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $54.66 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.81 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 62.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Equities research analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 4th were given a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 4th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 0.99%.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA and Eli Lilly will invest up to $1 billion over five years to build an AI co‑innovation lab in the Bay Area using NVIDIA’s BioNeMo platform and Vera Rubin architecture — a direct revenue and compute-demand driver (drug discovery, manufacturing, digital twins). Nvidia, Eli Lilly to spend $1 billion over five years on joint research lab
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA expanded its BioNeMo platform and announced collaborations (including Thermo Fisher) to enable autonomous, lab-in-the-loop workflows — this strengthens NVDA’s software ecosystem and creates recurring demand for high‑end GPUs and cloud/inference infrastructure. NVIDIA BioNeMo Platform Adopted by Life-Sciences Leaders
• Positive Sentiment: Street bullishness persists: multiple analysts reiterated Buy/outperform ratings and raised targets (Mizuho, Piper Sandler and others), citing NVDA’s leadership in data‑center and robotics compute — supports medium/long‑term upside. Here’s What Wall Street Thinks About NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)
• Positive Sentiment: Customer and ecosystem adoption evidence: orders and integrations (Digi Power X buying B300 GPUs; medical‑robotics partner EndoQuest using IGX Thor) point to continued hardware demand across new verticals. Digi Power X acquires $20M of Nvidia B300 GPUs
• Neutral Sentiment: Market narrative: several pieces note NVDA’s massive market cap limits near-term percentage upside (law of large numbers) — useful framing but not an immediate catalyst. Small Names, Big Impact: The Stocks Behind NVIDIA’s Rubin
• Neutral Sentiment: Trading tone: NVDA has shown muted intraday movement as investors focus on China demand and broader AI‑sector dynamics — lack of immediate price reaction to partnerships suggests benefits are seen as longer‑term. Nvidia stock continues to crawl but analysts see strong upside ahead
• Neutral Sentiment: Short‑interest report in the feed is unreliable (shows zeros/NaN) — no clear signal from short activity today. Short interest data (entry)
• Negative Sentiment: Reported pause in China H200 chip orders (~$54B in potential orders) is a downside risk for near‑term revenue and could pressure demand if it persists. Nvidia (NVDA) Stock: China Pauses H200 Chip Orders Worth $54 Billion
• Negative Sentiment: Recent insider selling (EVP-level sale disclosed) may catch investor attention as a short-term negative signal even if company insiders still hold large positions. Insider Selling: NVIDIA EVP Sells $37,564,000.00 in Stock

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total transaction of $44,332,500.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 6,933,280 shares in the company, valued at $1,229,478,542.40. This trade represents a 3.48% 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, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total transaction of $40,087,825.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 7,621,453 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,373,157,187.01. The trade was a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold 1,836,474 shares of company stock valued at $335,473,492 over the last quarter. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

About NVIDIA

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.