By the Numbers Series: | NVIDIA Corporation: TLDR of Company History, Overview & 3 Largest Shareholders. The Blockchain Boom Has Grown This Company Big Time.
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2018 has been a great year thus far for NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)
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Shareholders, have seen their stake more than double of late, started the 2017 year at $102 while trading at nearly $228.70 a share as at close on February 7, 2018.
The booming interest in cryptocurrencies is also getting popular among investors. Ineed, the chip maker's future looks bright as it rides the crypto tidal wave.
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Fundamental Stats Current as at Today:
(Yahoo Finance)
Market Cap 140.64B
Beta 1.51
PE Ratio (TTM) 48.15
EPS (TTM) 4.82
Earnings Date May 7, 2018 - May 11, 2018
Forward Dividend & Yield 0.60 (0.28%)
Ex-Dividend Date 2017-11-22
1y Target Est 221.58
Trade prices are not sourced from all markets
Company Overview/History
TLDR
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Nvidia was founded in Santa Clara, California, in 1993, mainly as a chip company specializing in graphics processing.
In recent years, they have positioned themselves as leaders in visual computing... targeting the gaming, visualization, datacenter and automotive markets.
The company reports state their 2 main segments as:
1/ GPUs (Graphic Processing Units), a variety of which is aimed at gamers, designers and data scientists, and
2/ Tegra, an integrated solution combining GPUs and multi-core CPUs in one processor which is used in entertainment devices, drones, cars and for online gaming.
As of 2018, the company reports roughly 10,000 employees, and reported over $5.01 billion in revenue in their 2017 fiscal year.
Below are the top individual shareholders of Nvidia Corporation.
Jen-Hsun Huang Nvidia
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Jen-Sun Huang — who goes by Jensen Huang — founded the company in 1993 and serves as President and CEO of Nvidia. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University and Stanford University respectively. Before establishing Nvidia, Huang worked for the chip manufacturer LSI Logic Corporation and
the well known semiconductor company -- Advanced Microdevices Inc.
He currently owns around 0.26% of the company's 600 million outstanding shares directly. According to the September 2017 SEC filings, Huang directly owns 1.56 millions shares of Nvidia along with 20.7 million shares held indirectly through trusts.
Ajay Puri
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Ajay K. Puri — known as Jay Puri — joined Nvidia in 2005 and is currently Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. Puri heads up global sales and regional marking for the complete line of Nvidia products. Before joining the company, his role of Vice President of Asia Pacific Group at Sun Microsystems, kept him busy where he additionally served in other general management, sales and marketing roles over the course of 22 years.
Puri holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology and B.S. in the same field from the University of Minnesota. He owned 529,728 shares of the company, according to his December 2017 SEC filing.
Colette Kress
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Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress joined NVIDIA in September 2013.
Prior to this, she was a senior VP / CFO of the Business Technology and Operations Finance organization at Cisco. Before that, Kress served in corporate planning and finance roles in Microsoft, including a position of CFO of the Server and Tools division. Colette Kress graduated from Southern Methodist University with an M.B.A. and holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Arizona.
She owns 322,144 shares of Nvidia Corporation according to her December 2017 SEC filing.
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2018 has been a great year thus far for NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)
Shareholders, have seen their stake more than double of late, started the 2017 year at $102 while trading at nearly $228.70 a share as at close on February 7, 2018.
The booming interest in cryptocurrencies is also getting popular among investors. Ineed, the chip maker's future looks bright as it rides the crypto tidal wave.
Fundamental Stats Current as at Today:
(Yahoo Finance)
Market Cap 140.64B
Beta 1.51
PE Ratio (TTM) 48.15
EPS (TTM) 4.82
Earnings Date May 7, 2018 - May 11, 2018
Forward Dividend & Yield 0.60 (0.28%)
Ex-Dividend Date 2017-11-22
1y Target Est 221.58
Trade prices are not sourced from all markets
Company Overview/History
TLDR
Nvidia was founded in Santa Clara, California, in 1993, mainly as a chip company specializing in graphics processing.
In recent years, they have positioned themselves as leaders in visual computing... targeting the gaming, visualization, datacenter and automotive markets.
The company reports state their 2 main segments as:
1/ GPUs (Graphic Processing Units), a variety of which is aimed at gamers, designers and data scientists, and
2/ Tegra, an integrated solution combining GPUs and multi-core CPUs in one processor which is used in entertainment devices, drones, cars and for online gaming.
As of 2018, the company reports roughly 10,000 employees, and reported over $5.01 billion in revenue in their 2017 fiscal year.
Below are the top individual shareholders of Nvidia Corporation.
Jen-Hsun Huang Nvidia
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Jen-Sun Huang — who goes by Jensen Huang — founded the company in 1993 and serves as President and CEO of Nvidia. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University and Stanford University respectively. Before establishing Nvidia, Huang worked for the chip manufacturer LSI Logic Corporation and
the well known semiconductor company -- Advanced Microdevices Inc.
He currently owns around 0.26% of the company's 600 million outstanding shares directly. According to the September 2017 SEC filings, Huang directly owns 1.56 millions shares of Nvidia along with 20.7 million shares held indirectly through trusts.
Ajay Puri
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Ajay K. Puri — known as Jay Puri — joined Nvidia in 2005 and is currently Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. Puri heads up global sales and regional marking for the complete line of Nvidia products. Before joining the company, his role of Vice President of Asia Pacific Group at Sun Microsystems, kept him busy where he additionally served in other general management, sales and marketing roles over the course of 22 years.
Puri holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology and B.S. in the same field from the University of Minnesota. He owned 529,728 shares of the company, according to his December 2017 SEC filing.
Colette Kress
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Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress joined NVIDIA in September 2013.
Prior to this, she was a senior VP / CFO of the Business Technology and Operations Finance organization at Cisco. Before that, Kress served in corporate planning and finance roles in Microsoft, including a position of CFO of the Server and Tools division. Colette Kress graduated from Southern Methodist University with an M.B.A. and holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Arizona.
She owns 322,144 shares of Nvidia Corporation according to her December 2017 SEC filing.
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