Parkside Financial Bank & Trust lessened its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 4.1% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm owned 93,922 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after selling 4,047 shares during the period. NVIDIA accounts for 1.7% of Parkside Financial Bank & Trust's portfolio, making the stock its 12th largest position. Parkside Financial Bank & Trust's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $12,613,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Capital Performance Advisors LLP increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 59.3% in the fourth quarter. Capital Performance Advisors LLP now owns 26,700 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $3,586,000 after purchasing an additional 9,944 shares during the last quarter. Palisade Asset Management LLC raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 0.5% in the 3rd quarter. Palisade Asset Management LLC now owns 15,363 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $1,866,000 after acquiring an additional 75 shares during the period. SMART Wealth LLC boosted its stake in NVIDIA by 289.5% during the 4th quarter. SMART Wealth LLC now owns 72,311 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $9,711,000 after acquiring an additional 53,747 shares during the last quarter. Blue Square Asset Management LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 26.7% during the third quarter. Blue Square Asset Management LLC now owns 48,093 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $5,840,000 after purchasing an additional 10,136 shares during the period. Finally, Wealthspire Advisors LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 29.6% in the fourth quarter. Wealthspire Advisors LLC now owns 174,896 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $23,487,000 after purchasing an additional 39,944 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company's stock.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Several brokerages have recently issued reports on NVDA. Bank of America reissued a "buy" rating and issued a $200.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, March 19th. Truist Financial lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $204.00 to $205.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, February 27th. KeyCorp set a $190.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, March 19th. Rosenblatt Securities restated a "buy" rating and set a $220.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, March 19th. Finally, DZ Bank raised NVIDIA from a "hold" rating to a "strong-buy" rating in a research note on Friday, February 28th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirty-six have issued a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $169.89.
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NVIDIA Trading Down 7.4 %
Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $94.31 on Friday. NVIDIA Co. has a 12-month low of $75.61 and a 12-month high of $195.95. The business has a 50 day moving average of $121.20 and a 200-day moving average of $130.96. The company has a quick ratio of 3.64, a current ratio of 4.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. The stock has a market cap of $2.30 trillion, a PE ratio of 37.12, a P/E/G ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 1.96.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.89 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.84 by $0.05. The business had revenue of $39.33 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $38.16 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 114.83% and a net margin of 55.69%. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Co. will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current year.
NVIDIA Dividend Announcement
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 2nd. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 12th were given a dividend of $0.01 per share. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.04%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, March 12th. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio is 1.36%.
Insiders Place Their Bets
In other NVIDIA news, Director John Dabiri sold 2,663 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Monday, March 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $110.00, for a total value of $292,930.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 17,279 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,900,690. The trade was a 13.35 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 66,660 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, March 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $116.83, for a total value of $7,787,887.80. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 3,085,765 shares in the company, valued at approximately $360,509,924.95. This trade represents a 2.11 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 183,609 shares of company stock worth $22,642,615 in the last quarter. 4.23% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
NVIDIA Company Profile
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NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications.
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