NVIDIA (NVDA) Stock & Company News Summary (March 21, 2025)

Institutional Investment

• Institutional Holdings: 65.27% of NVDA shares are held by institutions.
• New Position: Palouse Capital Management Inc. established a new NVDA position in Q4, purchasing 1,070 shares worth $144,000.

Insider Trading

• Director Sale: A director sold 2,663 shares on March 10 at $110.00, totaling $292,930.00. Post-sale holdings: 17,279 shares valued at approximately $1,900,690 (a 13.35% reduction).
• EVP Sale: EVP sold 36,462 shares on January 6 at $151.10, totaling $5,509,408.20. Post-sale holdings: 3,902,888 shares valued at $589,726,376.80 (a 0.93% reduction).
• Robert K. Burgess Sale: Director Robert K. Burgess sold 53,324 shares on March 13 for $6,158,388.76.
• Total Insider Sales: 92,449 shares in the last three months, valued at $11,960,727. Insiders hold 4.23% of the stock.
• Rep. Cleo Fields Sale: Rep. Cleo Fields (D-Louisiana) sold between $500,001 and $1,000,000 in NVIDIA stock on February 5th.

Stock Performance & Valuation

• Opening Price: Opened at $118.53 on Friday.
• 52-week Range: $75.61 - $153.13.
• Market Cap: $2.89 trillion.
• Key Metrics:
  • P/E: 46.65
  • P/E/G: 1.76
  • Beta: 1.77
  • 50-day Moving Average: $127.28
  • 200-day Moving Average: $131.03
  • Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.13
  • Current Ratio: 4.10
  • Quick Ratio: 3.64

Earnings & Dividends

• Q4 EPS: $0.89 (exceeding estimates by $0.05).
• Q4 Revenue: $39.33 billion (exceeding estimates).
• Net Margin: 55.69%.
• Return on Equity: 114.83%.
• Analyst EPS Expectation: $2.77 for the current year.
• Dividends:
  • Quarterly Dividend: $0.01/share (payable April 2 to shareholders of record on March 12).
  • Annual Yield: 0.03% ($0.04 dividend).
  • Payout Ratio: **1.36%.

Analyst Ratings

• Consensus Rating: "Moderate Buy".
• Average Price Target: $171.51.
• Recent Analyst Actions: Price target increases/decreases and reiterations of ratings ("Buy," "Overweight," "Outperform," or "Hold") from firms like Needham, Goldman Sachs, Mizuho, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Citigroup.
• Cantor's Projection: C.J. Muse projects $200 price target (+70%).
• Ratings Breakdown:
  • Hold: 4
  • Buy: 37
  • Strong Buy: 2

Company Overview

• NVIDIA Segments:
  • GeForce GPUs
  • Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs
  • vGPU Software
  • Automotive Platforms
  • Omniverse Software

AI Initiatives

• Tesla's Focus: Investing in AI for autonomous driving (FSD) and humanoid robots (Optimus), potentially increasing profit margins.
• NVIDIA Investments:
  • Spending hundreds of billions on U.S.-made chips.
  • Blackwell GPU production at TSMC Arizona confirmed.
• CoreWeave IPO: Targeting up to $32 billion valuation in IPO, backed by Nvidia.
• D-Wave Quantum Computer: Solved spin glasses problem in minutes vs. supercomputer's million years.
• Quantum Computing Lab: Nvidia opening quantum computing research lab in Boston with Harvard and MIT.

Other Key Points

• Tesla EV Business: Seen as uninspiring, but analysts highlight "Generational Opportunity" due to AI Initiatives.
• Micron Innovation: World’s first and only memory company shipping both HBM3E and small outline compression attached memory module products for AI servers in the data center.
• Cathie Wood's Perspective: ARK Invest sees AI as the biggest catalyst for innovation, with ongoing AI-driven productivity ending the rolling recession.