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Checchi Capital Advisers LLC grew its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 5.4% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 188,065 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 9,606 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA makes up approximately 1.7% of Checchi Capital Advisers LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 4th biggest holding. Checchi Capital Advisers LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $32,798,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of NVDA. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the fourth quarter worth $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 1st quarter worth about $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 47.9% in the 2nd quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $33,000 after buying an additional 67 shares during the period. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter valued at about $40,000. Finally, Inspire Investing LLC bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter valued at about $44,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA In other NVIDIA news, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total transaction of $133,750.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 14,163 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,030,882. This trade represents a 4.23% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This trade represents a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock valued at $410,583,015. 3.94% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

NVIDIA Stock Down 0.9% NVDA stock opened at $206.84 on Friday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $164.07 and a 52 week high of $236.54. The company has a market capitalization of $5.01 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.40 and a beta of 2.21. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $207.85 and its two-hundred day moving average is $195.81. The company has a current ratio of 3.44, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The business had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $78.42 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.81 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 85.2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization allows the computer hardware maker to repurchase up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were given a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.5%. This is a positive change from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 4th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 15.31%.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced a joint AI research lab with KAIST in Seoul, a $300 million collaboration that will fund researchers, internships, and AI infrastructure to advance agentic AI in South Korea. NVIDIA and KAIST Launch Joint AI Research Lab to Accelerate AI Innovation in Korea Positive Sentiment: The company also struck a $1.5 billion partnership with Amkor to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and test capacity in the U.S., reinforcing NVIDIA’s AI supply chain and manufacturing footprint. Nvidia, Amkor strike $1.5 billion chip packaging deal Positive Sentiment: Jensen Huang and NVIDIA joined Microsoft, Meta, and others in publicly backing open-source AI models, which could support broader AI adoption and future demand for NVIDIA GPUs. Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech giants back open-source AI models Positive Sentiment: Several technical reports say NVDA is holding support and may be forming a bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pattern, while other analysts point to a breakout above the 50-day moving average as a possible catalyst. NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) Price Forecast: Can NVDA Break Above Key Resistance? Neutral Sentiment: Institutional filings show continued buying from some funds, but insider activity remains dominated by sales, which keeps sentiment mixed rather than decisively bullish. Fund Update: 337,821 NVIDIA (NVDA) shares added to COMGEST GLOBAL INVESTORS S.A.S. portfolio Negative Sentiment: Broader semiconductor shares have pulled back as investors take profits and worry about AI valuation levels and heavy capex spending, which has weighed on NVIDIA along with the rest of the AI trade. Semiconductor Crossroads: Healthy Consolidation or Deeper Repricing? Negative Sentiment: News flow also highlights investor rotation out of the biggest AI winners and concerns that the “Magnificent 7” are digesting a surge in AI infrastructure spending, creating near-term pressure on NVDA despite strong long-term demand. Magnificent 7 stocks shed hundreds of billions amid AI spending fears Wall Street Analyst Weigh In A number of brokerages have issued reports on NVDA. Barclays reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. BTIG Research began coverage on NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, April 15th. They set a “buy” rating for the company. Daiwa Securities Group increased their price target on NVIDIA from $215.00 to $255.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $275.00 price target (up from $235.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Friday, May 15th. Finally, Rothschild & Co Redburn boosted their price objective on NVIDIA from $280.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, May 26th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $304.26.

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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.

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The artificial intelligence boom reshaped the stock market faster than almost any investing trend in recent memory. When OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, investors quickly realized AI wasn’t another speculative technology story — it was becoming the next computing platform. 

Capital flooded into the handful of companies with the chips, cloud infrastructure, software, and balance sheets needed to make AI a reality. Those seven companies — Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) — became known as the Magnificent 7. 

Yet the nickname wasn’t originally a compliment. It was a warning that just seven stocks were responsible for an outsized share of the S&P 500‘s gains. Three years later, the market has become much broader, leaving investors to decide whether buying the group as a whole still makes sense.

From Market Leadership to Market Laggard The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (NASDAQ:MAGS), launched in April 2023, captured the AI trade almost perfectly. The ETF has returned 158% since inception, nearly double the S&P 500’s roughly 80% gain over the same period. Investors who bought early were rewarded handsomely. Its recent performance, though, changes the story.

Period MAGS ETF S&P 500 Since inception (April 2023) 158% 80% 2 Years 44.0% 36.5% 1 Year 9.0% 16.0% Year to Date 2026 -4.0% 8.0% The numbers show momentum has faded. MAGS still edges out the broader market over two years, but it has trailed over the past year and has fallen behind badly in 2026.

Ironically, the same concentration that fueled market gains has become a headwind. Investors no longer view AI as a single trade. Instead, they’re distinguishing between companies building AI infrastructure and those generating meaningful returns from the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested.

Why The Magnificent 7 Are Moving in Different Directions A year ago, concerns began emerging about whether AI spending could keep climbing indefinitely. Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta have collectively committed hundreds of billions of dollars toward AI infrastructure, while investors increasingly want proof that those investments will translate into higher profits instead of simply larger capital expenditures.

At the same time, each member of the Magnificent 7 faces different challenges.

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Tesla is battling slowing electric vehicle demand and rising competition.  Apple continues searching for an AI strategy compelling enough to reignite iPhone growth.  Nvidia remains the dominant AI chip supplier, but investors debate how long today’s extraordinary demand can continue as customers eventually digest their purchases. Conversely, Alphabet and Meta appear better positioned today than they did a year ago. Both companies continue producing free cash flow or generating substantial growth while integrating AI into businesses that already generate tens of billions of dollars in annual advertising revenue. Amazon also stands out because AWS remains one of the largest beneficiaries of enterprise AI adoption while its retail business continues expanding margins.

That’s the key difference. The Magnificent 7 no longer move in lockstep because their businesses have reached very different stages of AI monetization.

The era of the 'basket trade' is over—see which AI giants are crumbling under pressure and which ones are actually generating cash. © 24/7 Wall St. Buying the Basket or Picking Winners? That shift makes owning the entire group less compelling than it was in 2023. MAGS still offers a simple way to gain exposure to many of the world’s highest-quality technology companies, and investors wanting diversified exposure without choosing individual stocks may still find it attractive. But selective investing looks like the stronger approach today. 

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft combine durable cash-generating businesses with AI opportunities that extend beyond selling hardware. Nvidia also remains a long-term leader, although expectations remain high after its historic run. Apple and Tesla face steeper questions about future growth, making them harder to justify as core holdings at current valuations.

Key Takeaway In short, the Magnificent 7 phenomenon isn’t over — but the era when investors could buy the basket and expect it to dominate the market may be. The AI boom created enormous wealth, and MAGS’ 158% return since launch proves that. The fund’s recent underperformance also shows the market has entered a new phase where execution matters more than excitement.

Ultimately, smart investors may earn better long-term returns by owning the companies with the clearest path from AI investment to AI profits instead of assuming every member of the Magnificent 7 deserves equal weight. The group is still full of exceptional businesses. They’re just no longer one trade.

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Earlier this month, semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis reported that Nvidia (NVDA -1.01%) was facing major setbacks with its Kyber NVL144 rack-scale solution. The server cabinet, designed to house Nvidia's Rubin Ultra architecture, had been delayed over 12 months to 2028, according to SemiAnalysis.

Nvidia issued a brief statement saying its roadmap is intact. More recently, CEO Jensen Huang weighed in while speaking to reporters at a developer event.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image source: Nvidia Corporation.

Huang's response to the delay claims When asked about potential delays in Vera Rubin, Huang said the reports are "not true." He also explained that "Vera Rubin is already in production. Giant amounts of production incoming."

Although Huang confirmed production, that's not new information -- Nvidia confirmed this back in January. It's also worth noting that while Huang addressed chip production, the report was concerning the Kyber rack. He didn't provide a production timeline, and neither did Nvidia, in its prior response.

Perhaps most important for Nvidia investors is Huang's claim about giant amounts of production, because Vera Rubin is a crucial part of the chipmaker's forward earnings projections and valuation.

Why an intact roadmap matters for Nvidia Nvidia has made a habit of delivering blowout earnings reports, with revenue growing for 14 consecutive quarters. Most recently, revenue was up 85% year over year to a record $81.6 billion in its Q1 fiscal year 2027 (which ended April 26, 2026). That consistent revenue growth stems from its status as the leading GPU company and its practice of updating its AI chips every year. AI companies that want to remain competitive need to continually upgrade to Nvidia's latest chips.

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This has worked out well for Nvidia so far, but any major delay that knocks the chipmaker off its update cadence could negatively impact its earnings. Earlier this year, Huang provided a sales forecast of $1 trillion combined for Blackwell and Vera Rubin through 2027, so there's little room for setbacks. A slowdown would also give other chipmakers, such as Advanced Micro Devices, room to potentially cut into Nvidia's market share.

What to watch Delay concerns for Nvidia look to be overstated, based on Huang's recent comments. And even though SemiAnalysis reported the delays, it's still bullish on Nvidia, forecasting that the chipmaker's data center revenue will exceed analyst estimates by 20% in the second half of its fiscal 2027.

The concrete data will be in Nvidia's upcoming earnings calls, with the next one scheduled for Aug. 26. If Nvidia continues to top analyst expectations and raise guidance, then that will be a good sign that there are no issues with the product roadmap.

Známý investor Jim Chanos v rozhovoru pro RiskReversal Media popisoval svůj pohled na současné dění na akciovém trhu a na investice do AI. Ty jsou podle něj taženy tím, jaké jsou současné „spotové ceny“, ale situace mu připomíná například nadšení při budování železnic, které nakonec končilo příliš vysokými kapacitami a bankroty investujících firem (viz první část rozhovoru). Tématu umělé inteligence a souvisejících investic se pak věnoval více do detailu.

Chanos se tedy domnívá, že nyní opět probíhá „naprosto základní finanční chyba, kdy jsou dlouhodobé kapitálové investice činěny na základě krátkodobých spotových cen.“ Je přitom velká otázka, kde budou ceny někdy za dva roky. K tomu dodal, že klíčovou společností je v oblasti umělé inteligence a investic do její infrastruktury NVIDIA. To podle Chanose znamená, že „žádná firma by se na trhu neměla obchodovat s valuacemi vyššími než tato společnost“. V mnoha případech ale platí opak, a to je další důvod, proč „se dívat na tento ekosystém a ptát se, co je vlastně udržitelné.“

Marže společnosti NVIDIA jsou podle experta v dohledné době „stabilní“, ale „pak už se lze jen dohadovat“. To ovšem neplatí jen v tomto případě, ale pro celé dění kolem AI. K tomu Chanos dodal, že současné zisky obchodovaných společností jsou ovlivněny tím, že výdaje na čipy a podobné položky nejsou účtovány jako náklad, ale jako investice, a tudíž jsou jen postupně odepisovány. To přispívá k růstu zisků obchodovaných firem, který je vysoko nad historickým standardem pohybujícím se někde kolem 6 %.

K něčemu podobnému docházelo na vrcholu internetové bubliny – i tehdy „jeden dolar tržeb jedné firmy nebyl jedním dolarem nákladů jiné“. Právě proto, že investující společnosti neúčtují nákupy čipů do nákladů, ale kapitalizují je a jen postupně odepisují. Plně odepsány mohou být během 5 – 6 let, ale k tomu se podle Chanose musí přidat až 18 měsíců souvisejících s tím, jak se účtuje ve vztahu ke stavbě budov a zařízení. Takže ve skutečnosti budou současné výdaje firem odepisovány ještě déle.

Expert poukázal i na to, že se objevuje nový podnikatelský model, v jehož rámci AI společnost poskytuje software a klienti si sami budují svá datová centra. Cílem u AI společnosti je vyhnout se vysokým investicím a zůstat společností nenáročnou na kapitál. Chanos k tomu ale dodal, že doposud bylo základem investičního příběhu to, jak velkou výhodou je právě vlastnění datových center a veškerého hardwaru souvisejícího s umělou inteligencí. „Teď se dozvídáme, že aktiva není třeba vlastnit, stačí je jen spravovat.“

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Perhaps one of the more notable surprises is the fact that Microsoft (MSFT +0.02%) and Nvidia (NVDA -1.01%) have become perceived by some as value plays. Although each company plays a critical role in AI, Nvidia has struggled to outperform the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.05%) this year, while Microsoft stock has pulled back.

Each company will almost certainly continue to play a crucial role in AI and tech at large, so investors should not expect massive stock price declines. Nonetheless, only one of these is likely to stand out as the better value stock in today's market.

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The case for Nvidia One could argue that Nvidia is the most surprising value stock in existence today. Since hitting a low in the fall of 2022, the stock has increased by more than 1,700% as its AI accelerators have powered the generative AI boom. That took its market cap to $5.1 trillion, the largest among publicly traded stocks.

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However, amid that growth, Nvidia trades at a P/E ratio of 32. That is barely above the S&P 500 average of 29, and its recent price action makes it the cheapest it's been since 2019. This is unusual since investors tend to pay a premium for growth. In the first quarter of fiscal 2027 (ended April 26), revenue increased by 85% yearly while net income rose by 211% over the same period.

Knowing that, it is surprising that Nvidia is so cheap. Perhaps growth investors are pulling back, as a $5.1 trillion market cap will make it difficult for Nvidia to be a 10-bagger. Others might feel leery about the massive capital expenditures (capex) spending of the hyperscalers and wonder how long it can last.

Whatever the reason, Nvidia is an inexpensive stock with considerable growth potential. Even if that growth slows significantly, it would likely not undermine the value proposition in Nvidia stock. Moreover, with more than $80 billion in liquidity and the ability to innovate at low cost (it spent just $6.5 billion on capex in the last 12 months), Nvidia is well positioned to outperform the market over time while keeping investor capital safe.

Why investors might consider Microsoft Despite the aforementioned pullback this year, Microsoft has long been a popular choice for capital preservation. Even though its current $2.9 trillion market cap is well below Nvidia's, Microsift's dominance in PC operating systems, strength in productivity software, and later success as a cloud company have made it one of the market's largest companies.

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Moreover, its 23 P/E ratio places it well into value stock territory, and while it cannot match Nvidia's growth, its financial performance is solid. In the third quarter of fiscal 2026 (ended March 31), revenue rose by 17% annually, while net income surged 23% higher during the same period.

However, the company's challenges arguably make the low earnings multiple and falling stock price more understandable. The company's plan to spend $190 billion on capex this year has made some investors uneasy. Furthermore, AI's ability to perform many software functions has made investors leery of SaaS stocks. Also, a close relationship with OpenAI has made some investors skeptical about the strength of Microsoft's AI.

Despite these challenges, Microsoft's earnings multiple could make the stock a safe bet, given its prominent role in the tech industry. Even with heavy capex spending, Microsoft still maintains about $78 billion in liquidity. Additionally, given concerns about its capex spending, it is likely using some of those funds to invest in AI, separate from OpenAI.

Thus, investors should not count it out as an AI company. When considering its valuation and continued growth, Microsoft stock is probably a buy at current levels.

Of the two choices, Nvidia looks like the better value among the two tech giants right now.

Admittedly, 23 times earnings is an extremely low multiple for Microsoft, and the market may have gone too far in pricing the company's troubles into Microsoft stock.

Nonetheless, the margin of safety Nvidia provides right now is too obvious to ignore. Even if Nvidia's 85% revenue growth slows significantly, it will take considerable growth deceleration to make its 32 P/E ratio seem expensive.

Moreover, Nvidia reached this position by leading and dominating the AI accelerator market. Even with more companies entering this market, they are unlikely to unseat Nvidia anytime soon. That means that even if Nvidia's days as a potential 10-bagger are over, it is likely to outperform both Microsoft and the S&P 500 for the foreseeable future.

Nvidia: Accelerating Revenue ExpansionNvidia (NVDA -0.92%) primarily generates revenue by providing advanced graphics, computational, and networking solutions for diverse applications.

It commenced full production of its new hardware architecture, Vera Rubin, and faced regulatory scrutiny over export controls, while reporting a 72% net income margin for the quarter ended April 26, 2026.

Planet Labs: Incremental Revenue GainsPlanet Labs PBC (PL -8.45%) primarily generates revenue by deploying satellite constellations to provide frequent, worldwide geospatial data.

It secured an eight-figure government contract extension, while generating a -148% net income margin for the quarter ended April 30, 2026.

Why Revenue Matters for Retail InvestorsRevenue is a fundamental measure of how much money a business brings in from its core operations before deducting any expenses. Tracking this figure helps investors understand the total scale and top-line growth trajectory of a business.

Quarterly Revenue for Nvidia and Planet Labs PBCQuarter (Period End)Nvidia RevenuePlanet Labs PBC RevenueQ3 2024$30.0 billion (period ended July 2024)$61.1 million (period ended July 2024)Q4 2024$35.1 billion (period ended Oct. 2024)$61.3 million (period ended Oct. 2024)Q1 2025$39.3 billion (period ended Jan. 2025)$61.6 million (period ended Jan. 2025)Q2 2025$44.1 billion (period ended April 2025)$66.3 million (period ended April 2025)Q3 2025$46.7 billion (period ended July 2025)$73.4 million (period ended July 2025)Q4 2025$57.0 billion (period ended Oct. 2025)$81.3 million (period ended Oct. 2025)Q1 2026$68.1 billion (period ended Jan. 2026)$86.8 million (period ended Jan. 2026)Q2 2026$81.6 billion (period ended April 2026)$94.2 million (period ended April 2026)Data source: Company filings. Data as of July 24, 2026.

Foolish TakeNvidia’s sales are so much larger than Planet Labs that, side by side, the latter doesn’t show up on a chart. Even so, one attribute they both share is that revenue is rising on a quarterly basis. That’s an outstanding achievement, and illustrates the substantial customer demand fueling their businesses.

As a part of the emerging space-based economy, Planet Labs delivered impressive 42% year-over-year sales growth in its fiscal first quarter ended April 30. The company’s backlog of business rose an even higher 72% year over year to over $900 million, signaling sales will continue to increase over time. In fact, Planet Labs forecasted revenue to be in the range of $102 million to $107 million for the next quarter, a significant jump up from the $73.4 million produced in the prior year.

Despite the strong growth Planet Labs is experiencing, Nvidia’s sales are even stronger. Its $81.6 billion in its fiscal Q1, ended April 26, represented a massive 85% year-over-year increase. The semiconductor giant expects revenue to accelerate to $91 billion in the next quarter, up nearly double from $46.7 billion achieved in the previous year. This level of growth demonstrates the enormous demand for Nvidia’s products powering the booming artificial intelligence sector.

Bleakley Financial Group LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 10.0% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 783,079 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 71,372 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA comprises about 2.1% of Bleakley Financial Group LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 7th largest position. Bleakley Financial Group LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $136,569,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors also recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the fourth quarter worth about $62,244,133,000. J. Stern & Co. LLP grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 13,709.1% during the fourth quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,454,297,000 after purchasing an additional 124,849,603 shares during the last quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 896.4% in the fourth quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. now owns 78,123,960 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $14,570,119,000 after purchasing an additional 70,283,539 shares in the last quarter. Capital Research Global Investors increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 16.1% in the third quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $30,855,564,000 after purchasing an additional 22,896,705 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC raised its position in NVIDIA by 15,496.1% in the 2nd quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 21,865,525 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,454,534,000 after purchasing an additional 21,725,326 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling In other news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total transaction of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock valued at $410,583,015 over the last 90 days. 3.94% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced a joint AI research lab with KAIST in Seoul, a $300 million collaboration that will fund researchers, internships, and AI infrastructure to advance agentic AI in South Korea. NVIDIA and KAIST Launch Joint AI Research Lab to Accelerate AI Innovation in Korea Positive Sentiment: The company also struck a $1.5 billion partnership with Amkor to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and test capacity in the U.S., reinforcing NVIDIA’s AI supply chain and manufacturing footprint. Nvidia, Amkor strike $1.5 billion chip packaging deal Positive Sentiment: Jensen Huang and NVIDIA joined Microsoft, Meta, and others in publicly backing open-source AI models, which could support broader AI adoption and future demand for NVIDIA GPUs. Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech giants back open-source AI models Positive Sentiment: Several technical reports say NVDA is holding support and may be forming a bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pattern, while other analysts point to a breakout above the 50-day moving average as a possible catalyst. NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) Price Forecast: Can NVDA Break Above Key Resistance? Neutral Sentiment: Institutional filings show continued buying from some funds, but insider activity remains dominated by sales, which keeps sentiment mixed rather than decisively bullish. Fund Update: 337,821 NVIDIA (NVDA) shares added to COMGEST GLOBAL INVESTORS S.A.S. portfolio Negative Sentiment: Broader semiconductor shares have pulled back as investors take profits and worry about AI valuation levels and heavy capex spending, which has weighed on NVIDIA along with the rest of the AI trade. Semiconductor Crossroads: Healthy Consolidation or Deeper Repricing? Negative Sentiment: News flow also highlights investor rotation out of the biggest AI winners and concerns that the “Magnificent 7” are digesting a surge in AI infrastructure spending, creating near-term pressure on NVDA despite strong long-term demand. Magnificent 7 stocks shed hundreds of billions amid AI spending fears NVIDIA Trading Down 0.9% Shares of NVDA stock opened at $206.84 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $5.01 trillion, a PE ratio of 31.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 2.21. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $207.85 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $195.81. The company has a quick ratio of 2.85, a current ratio of 3.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $164.07 and a 12-month high of $236.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.94% and a net margin of 62.97%.The business had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $78.42 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.81 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 85.2% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to buyback $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization permits the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often a sign that the company’s leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 4th were paid a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.5%. This is an increase from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 4th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is presently 15.31%.

Analyst Ratings Changes A number of research analysts have commented on the company. New Street Research decreased their price objective on NVIDIA from $343.00 to $340.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, July 8th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price target on NVIDIA from $265.00 to $280.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Benchmark reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $335.00 price objective (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, UBS Group boosted their price objective on NVIDIA from $275.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have issued a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $304.26.

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About NVIDIA (Free Report)

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.

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Evernest Financial Advisors LLC trimmed its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 19.0% in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 12,649 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 2,973 shares during the period. Evernest Financial Advisors LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $2,206,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the fourth quarter valued at $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 1st quarter worth approximately $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 47.9% in the second quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,000 after purchasing an additional 67 shares during the last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter worth $40,000. Finally, Inspire Investing LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter valued at $44,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced a joint AI research lab with KAIST in Seoul, a $300 million collaboration that will fund researchers, internships, and AI infrastructure to advance agentic AI in South Korea. NVIDIA and KAIST Launch Joint AI Research Lab to Accelerate AI Innovation in Korea Positive Sentiment: The company also struck a $1.5 billion partnership with Amkor to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and test capacity in the U.S., reinforcing NVIDIA’s AI supply chain and manufacturing footprint. Nvidia, Amkor strike $1.5 billion chip packaging deal Positive Sentiment: Jensen Huang and NVIDIA joined Microsoft, Meta, and others in publicly backing open-source AI models, which could support broader AI adoption and future demand for NVIDIA GPUs. Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech giants back open-source AI models Positive Sentiment: Several technical reports say NVDA is holding support and may be forming a bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pattern, while other analysts point to a breakout above the 50-day moving average as a possible catalyst. NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) Price Forecast: Can NVDA Break Above Key Resistance? Neutral Sentiment: Institutional filings show continued buying from some funds, but insider activity remains dominated by sales, which keeps sentiment mixed rather than decisively bullish. Fund Update: 337,821 NVIDIA (NVDA) shares added to COMGEST GLOBAL INVESTORS S.A.S. portfolio Negative Sentiment: Broader semiconductor shares have pulled back as investors take profits and worry about AI valuation levels and heavy capex spending, which has weighed on NVIDIA along with the rest of the AI trade. Semiconductor Crossroads: Healthy Consolidation or Deeper Repricing? Negative Sentiment: News flow also highlights investor rotation out of the biggest AI winners and concerns that the “Magnificent 7” are digesting a surge in AI infrastructure spending, creating near-term pressure on NVDA despite strong long-term demand. Magnificent 7 stocks shed hundreds of billions amid AI spending fears Insider Transactions at NVIDIA In related news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total value of $133,750.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 14,163 shares in the company, valued at $3,030,882. This represents a 4.23% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock valued at $410,583,015 in the last ninety days. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes Several research analysts recently weighed in on NVDA shares. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and set a $285.00 target price (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, May 20th. TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $275.00 price target (up from $235.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Friday, May 15th. Tigress Financial restated a “strong-buy” rating and set a $425.00 price target (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, May 27th. Daiwa Securities Group upped their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $215.00 to $255.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, May 22nd. Finally, Susquehanna reaffirmed a “positive” rating and issued a $275.00 price objective (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, May 12th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $304.26.

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NVIDIA Price Performance NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $206.84 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 3.44 and a quick ratio of 2.85. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $207.85 and a 200-day moving average price of $195.81. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1-year low of $164.07 and a 1-year high of $236.54. The firm has a market cap of $5.01 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 2.21.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.76 by $0.11. The firm had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $78.42 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.81 earnings per share. Equities research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 4th. This is an increase from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is currently 15.31%.

NVIDIA Profile (Free Report)

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.

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The stock market has spent much of 2026 rewriting the record books. Artificial intelligence spending continues to climb, hyperscalers are expected to commit over $1 trillion to new data centers next year, electricity demand is reaching levels utilities have never planned for, and IPO valuations have returned to nosebleed territory. Even Washington is setting records, with U.S. debt-to-GDP surpassing peaks last seen during World War II. It is becoming the year of superlatives. 

Yet history shows that when every trend reaches an extreme at the same time, investors should spend as much time thinking about risk as they do opportunity.

Investors Have Never Been This Eager to Buy Stocks The clearest sign of investor enthusiasm comes from data from Strategas Research Partners and Bloomberg, which shows U.S. equity exchange-traded funds have attracted $880 billion of net inflows so far in 2026 — or more than every full-year total except the record set in 2025.

Even more striking, inflows are running more than twice the pace seen at this point in both 2021 and 2025. If the current trend continues, investors will pour more than $1.4 trillion into U.S. equity ETFs this year — roughly $500 billion above last year’s record of approximately $920 billion. Those aren’t just healthy inflows. They’re unprecedented.

The surge reflects investors’ confidence that AI investment, corporate earnings, and economic growth can continue supporting higher stock prices. Given the scale of spending announced by companies including Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), that optimism isn’t difficult to understand.

Granted, strong inflows don’t automatically signal a market top. Bull markets often attract more buyers as confidence grows. The problem is that record optimism usually leaves less cash on the sidelines to cushion markets when sentiment changes.

Record-breaking inflows meet a $1.5 trillion debt trap. When every metric hits an extreme, your exit strategy matters more than your entry. © 24/7 Wall St. Record Buying Is Being Fueled by Record Leverage Investor enthusiasm isn’t showing up only in ETF purchases. FINRA data shows margin debt has climbed to a record $1.5 trillion, meaning investors are borrowing more money than ever to buy stocks.

Leverage is a powerful accelerator. Rising markets magnify gains because borrowed money increases purchasing power. Conversely, falling markets can trigger margin calls that force investors to sell into already declining prices, creating a self-reinforcing cycle.

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Ironically, another corner of the market is already showing signs of stress. According to Reuters and LSEG Lipper data, U.S. investment-grade bond funds and ETFs suffered a record $7.1 billion in weekly withdrawals for the week ended July 22 after an inflation scare pushed Treasury yields higher.

That shift highlights how quickly investor positioning can change when inflation expectations or interest rates move unexpectedly.

Records Don’t Last Forever None of this means a crash is inevitable. Corporate profits remain healthy, AI investment continues expanding, and many technology leaders are generating enormous cash flows that justify continued spending. Those fundamentals are real.

That said, markets rarely move in a straight line forever. Today’s combination of record ETF inflows, record leveraged ETF buying, record margin debt, record AI capital spending, record data center construction, record electricity demand, record IPO valuations, and record federal debt creates a market with very little room for disappointment.

Whether the catalyst is sticky inflation, higher interest rates, slowing earnings growth, geopolitical tensions, or an unexpected economic shock, markets that become crowded on one side can reverse faster than many investors expect.

Key Takeaway In short, the numbers tell a simple story: investors — domestic and foreign — have embraced U.S. stocks with unprecedented conviction. That confidence has been rewarded so far, but it has also pushed positioning to historical extremes.

Smart investors don’t need to abandon the market simply because optimism is high. They should, however, recognize that record inflows and record leverage often amplify both gains and losses. Ultimately, the best defense isn’t predicting the next correction—it’s building a diversified portfolio, avoiding excessive borrowing, and keeping enough liquidity to take advantage of opportunities when others are forced to sell.

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Nvidia (NVDA -1.01%) has been one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The tech giant entered the market early and became the AI chip leader, and then it went on to build an AI empire, selling a broad portfolio of related products and services.

All of this has helped the company's earnings reach record levels -- more than $215 billion in revenue and $120 billion in profit in the latest full year. And the stock has also climbed, surging in the triple-digits over five years. Though Nvidia shares have lost some momentum this year, the company is well-positioned to deliver growth to investors over time. It's important to remember that the AI market is expected to surpass $3 trillion early next decade.

So, with a potential catalyst for stock performance on Aug. 26, you may be wondering if you should buy shares before that date. Let's consider what history has to say.

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Nvidia in the AI market Before diving in, let's take a closer look at Nvidia's path in the AI market so far. This tech giant has been in business for more than 30 years, but in its earlier days, it generated most of its revenue from selling its graphics processing units (GPUs) in the video gaming market. The company, recognizing the power of these chips, then designed a parallel computing platform that allowed for broader use. And when Nvidia chief Jensen Huang saw the AI opportunity, he decided to go all in and design GPUs specifically to suit that purpose.

This proved to be a game-changing decision for the company, as we can see through the revenue growth and stock performance in recent years.

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Why has Nvidia lost momentum this year? For a few reasons. Investors have worried about the levels of tech spending on AI infrastructure and whether the revenue opportunities will be as big as expected. General concerns about rising prices in the U.S. and turmoil in Iran also have prompted investors to become more cautious -- and rotate out of growth stocks, which are sensitive to economic shifts.

Meanwhile, investors who have chosen to stick with AI stocks in many cases have turned to players that hadn't climbed as much as Nvidia in the earliest stages of the AI boom. For example, memory and storage players such as Micron Technology and Western Digital saw their stock prices advance about 150% from the start of 2023 through the first half of last year, while Nvidia delivered a gain of more than 900%. This year, those two AI stocks have each jumped more than 200%, while Nvidia has delivered an increase of 11%.

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Commitment to innovation But, as I mentioned above, the AI growth story remains solid, and Nvidia's commitment to innovation should keep earnings marching higher. And speaking of earnings, let's now talk about the event on Aug. 26. This is Nvidia's fiscal 2027 second-quarter earnings report.

Should you buy the stock ahead of that event? History shows us the following about Nvidia's stock performance in the five trading days after its earnings reports. After the past 13 quarterly reports, the stock has fallen eight times during the five days that follow. Two of the declines were in the double-digits, and the others were in the single-digits.

So, history tells us that if you buy Nvidia stock ahead of its Aug. 26 report, you may not benefit from a post-earnings gain. Of course, it's important to remember that history isn't always right, but it offers us a general idea of what has commonly happened over time.

Does this mean you should avoid Nvidia stock? Not necessarily. Nvidia remains an excellent buy due to its well-established leadership in AI chips, its expansion across other products and services, and its long-term prospects in the AI market. And right now, trading at 23x forward earnings estimates, it's particularly cheap. This means that you shouldn't rush into Nvidia stock with the expectation of a quick gain after Aug. 26. Instead, it's a better idea to pick up the shares with the idea of focusing on long-term performance -- and there, you might score a major win.

Nvidia said it's secured AI memory supply from South Korea's SK Hynix, as the chipmaker tries to lock in a key component for its advanced processors and systems.

The agreement, announced late Friday in San Francisco, could be worth $500 billion over a number of years, and includes the construction of large-scale data centers expected to come online in 2027, Nvidia said.

SK Hynix affiliate SK Telecom will build a cloud business using Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems. Nvidia said it's targeting enough capacity to require 2 gigawatts of power, which indicates a massive buildout with hundreds of thousands of graphics processing units.

Nvidia is aggressively securing supply of high-bandwidth memory, which is essential for its GPUs and systems, as the AI boom has created a global memory shortage. SK Hynix is the leader in HBM production, according to analysts.

"The expansion will include a co-develop opportunity for us on the next-generation SK Hynix AI memory, and this will help us secure a stable supply of HBM memory," Raj Mirpuri, Nvidia enterprise vice president, said on a call with reporters.

The agreement is also a sign that massive AI infrastructure buildouts are moving beyond a handful of hyperscalers, with foreign governments and massive conglomerates starting to get involved.

The deal was announced at an AI summit in San Francisco with South Korean officials including President Lee Jae Myung.

Nvidia also said Friday that it would invest $1 billion into Naver, a Korean cloud company building data centers around its GPUs. Nvidia said the project would provide an opportunity for potential customers in South Korea and around the world to secure AI computing capacity before the 200 megawatts of capacity is completed.

SK Hynix, South Korea's second most valuable company, listed on the Nasdaq earlier this month as part of an effort to finance infrastructure developments.

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News Summary:

NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield plan to invest in gigawatt-scale, multi-tenant AI cloud infrastructure to power the next generation of AI companies in Korea and the U.S.NAVER and NVIDIA team plan to expand the initial NVIDIA DSX AI factory buildout at GAK Sejong data center from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts by 2028.NAVER plans to continue its path toward gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure, deploying the NVIDIA DSX platform to deliver full-stack, lowest-cost AI factory infrastructure for enterprises, industries and government.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AI Summit -- NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield today announced a proposed expansion of Korea's sovereign AI factory infrastructure, with planned investments that will grow the initial NVIDIA® DSX™ AI factory deployment to 200 megawatts — more than tripling the 55-megawatt buildout announced last month. NAVER intends to expand its deployment of NVIDIA AI infrastructure to 1 gigawatt.

Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco, the planned 200-megawatt expansion marks a significant acceleration of Korea’s national AI ambitions. The expanded infrastructure will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea.

NVIDIA plans to invest $1 billion into NAVER Corp. Brookfield has entered into a nonbinding term sheet to fund up to $9 billion. NAVER will fund the remaining amounts to finance the project. NVIDIA’s planned investment is subject to customary closing conditions and NAVER finalizing at least $9 billion of committed financing for the project, separate from NVIDIA’s planned investment. The expanded infrastructure will provide Korea- and U.S.-based AI innovators with access to production-scale AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.

“NVIDIA’s planned strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield have propelled NAVER’s vision for the AI factory business into a robust execution phase,” said Haejin Lee, founder and chairman of NAVER. “Leveraging the solid partnerships with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign AI ecosystem and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea’s AI competitiveness.”

“The partnership will combine Brookfield’s global AI infrastructure investment capabilities, NAVER’s full-stack AI and data center operating expertise, and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform to advance Korea’s AI capabilities,” said Sikander Rashid, global head of AI infrastructure at Brookfield. “As AI adoption accelerates across the global economy, access to trusted, sovereign and scalable AI infrastructure is becoming an increasingly important strategic priority for companies and countries.”

“AI factories are the infrastructure nations need to compete and innovate in the intelligence era,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Together, NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield are building sovereign AI infrastructure at the scale needed to fuel Korea’s startups and industries. This is how nations and companies are building their futures in the age of AI.”

Expanding AI Factory Capacity to Fuel AI Innovators
The 200-megawatt AI factory is expected to feature advanced NVIDIA AI infrastructure including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin and NVIDIA Blackwell platforms. It intends to provide the compute, software and support needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale. As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, NAVER provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform.

Today’s proposed expansion builds on the June announcement in which NAVER committed to extending its GAK Sejong data center with NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure to serve Korea’s enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI cloud customers.

Brookfield Investments Scale AI Infrastructure Deployments
Brookfield has established one of the industry’s leading AI infrastructure investment platforms, with approximately $100 billion of assets under management across the AI infrastructure value chain including data centers, compute, semiconductor manufacturing and dedicated power generation.

The planned NAVER investment will mark another significant milestone in Brookfield’s strategic partnership with NVIDIA. Building on NVIDIA’s participation as a founding partner in the Brookfield Global AI Infrastructure Program, the planned investment combines Brookfield’s capital and AI infrastructure and power expertise with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform to support the deployment of large-scale AI factories.

Brookfield has been an active, long-term investor in Korea since establishing a presence in the country in 2014 and currently manages approximately $12 billion of assets across infrastructure, real estate and energy.

NVIDIA DSX Platform Powers Expansion
The NVIDIA DSX platform provides an end-to-end, codesigned stack for AI factories — spanning chips, systems, software, facilities and partner technologies — purpose-built to minimize token cost and accelerate time to first production.

NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS™ software maximizes token throughput per megawatt, while NVIDIA DSX OS™ provides lifecycle management, health automation, resiliency and multi-tenant AI factory management across the expanded infrastructure.

Open Models Accelerate Growth
In addition, the expanded infrastructure builds on NAVER and NVIDIA’s collaboration on open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning.

NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models.

About NAVER
Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea’s largest Internet company and one of the world’s top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech, cloud, AI and robotics.

NAVER recorded sales of KRW 12.04 trillion (USD 8.18 billion) in 2025. TEAM NAVER continues to enhance its business portfolio and expand its global presence across Japan, North America, and Europe, while pursuing innovation through continuous research and development in future technologies.

About Brookfield
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CompaniesSAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab and South Korea's SK Group on ​Friday unveiled a more than $500 ‌billion AI initiative spanning large-scale AI data centers and next-generation memory, ​Nvidia said.

The initiative includes ​a long-term partnership with SK Hynix (000660.KS), opens new tab ⁠to secure next-generation memory ​supply for Nvidia and jointly develop ​high-bandwidth memory for AI training, AI agents and physical AI applications.

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As part ​of the initiative, SK Telecom (017670.KS), opens new tab ​plans to build a 2-gigawatt AI data ‌center ⁠powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips and SK Hynix's HBM4 high-bandwidth memory, with the first ​facility ​due to ⁠come online in 2027, Nvidia added.

Separately, Nvidia said ​it, Naver (035420.KS), opens new tab and Brookfield ​plan ⁠to expand Naver's AI data center in South Korea.

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NVDA daily chart shows inverse head-and-shoulders formation. Source: TradingView A Bullish Pattern Emerges at Long-Term Support Understanding the larger market environment via the weekly chart adds to the potential of the daily pattern for NVDA. The daily chart confirms recent dynamic support seen in the weekly chart, with the 100-day and 200-day moving averages defining similar price zones. It shows a potentially bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pattern that has formed at long-term trend support.

Fibonacci Targets Map the Upside Path An upside breakout of the pattern is signaled on a rally above $214.39, which will trigger a reversal of the recent decline. Initial potential upside targets are indicated by the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement of the recent decline at $226.54, followed by a 127.2% Fibonacci extension of the same downswing. Further up is the 161.8% Fibonacci extension at $265.43. Together, this puts NVDA in a potentially powerful position, but only if recent support is not broken to the downside. Therefore, the ability to hold the recently established support zone remains critical, while a sustained breakout above the $214.39 high would strengthen the bullish case and open the door to higher targets.

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Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options: https://bit.ly/2v9tH6D. Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang continues to grow the Mag 7 giant by focusing on creating fundamental tech tools, and investing in other rising AI leaders, says Kevin Hincks.

Marley Kayden and Sam Vadas look beyond the first round of Mag 7 earnings and fears of rising CapEx to focus on other headlines catching investor attention to close the week. They talk about the significance of Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang joining X and economic data showing a surprising amount of resiliency.

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Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia are among 25 tech organizations calling on U.S. policymakers to avoid placing “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models or “sweeping restrictions” on distillation.

In an open letter dated Friday (July 24), the organizations pointed to the benefits of the open-source software movement that began in the 1980s and said that open-weight models make advanced artificial intelligence more accessible, adaptable and widely available.

The letter said open weights enable organizations to build on advanced AI models without having to train one from scratch, let them match the right model to the right job, allow competition that spurs innovation and drives down costs, enable customers to avoid being locked into a single provider, give defenders the tools they need to respond to cybersecurity attackers, and let a broad community improve the models.

“A strong AI ecosystem is not a foregone conclusion,” the letter said. “Policymakers have an important opportunity to act. This includes expanding access to compute for startups and researchers, investing in shared training assets (datasets, tools, evaluation frameworks), and keeping the frontier plural by avoiding premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas. These measures must also look at how strong application layers can expand sovereign use of AI across the economy.”

The letter also addressed distillation, saying this is a widely used technique that reflects the open-source software movement’s tradition of learning from and building upon existing technologies. The letter added that the legitimate concerns raised by unlawful efforts to extract value from closed models should be addressed through targeted legal and commercial frameworks rather than “sweeping restrictions.”

“In shaping this ecosystem, policymakers should be careful not to conflate legitimate model-development techniques with misappropriation,” the letter said.

Together with Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, the signers of the open letter include American Innovators Network, Andreessen Horowitz, Arcee AI, Arena, Black Forest Labs, Box, CrowdStrike, Dell Technologies, Emergence Capital, Hugging Face, IBM, The Linux Foundation, Mariana Minerals, Mistral, Mozilla, Palantir, Perplexity, Reflection, Replit, ServiceNow, Telnyx and Y Combinator.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella shared the letter in a post on X and said: “Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem. Together with others across our industry, we are outlining a path for open-weight models to strengthen American competitiveness and expand economic opportunity, while protecting national security.”

Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared the letter in what he said was his first post on X, saying: “Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.”

While OpenAI did not sign the letter, CEO Sam Altman shared Huang’s post in his own post on X and said: “I want the US to win in AI both in open source and proprietary models, and I am glad to see this.”

It was reported July 10 that the Trump administration’s recent restrictions on access to the most advanced U.S. AI models are accelerating enterprise interest in open-source models.

On Tuesday (July 21), it was reported that the White House will examine whether Chinese AI models have been distilled from their U.S. counterparts.

Shares in the Magnificent 7 tech stocks have slumped this week amid investors' concerns about massive spending by hyperscalers on artificial intelligence infrastructure amid uncertainty about the global economy due to the resumption of hostilities in the Iran war.

The so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks experienced their biggest one-day drop in over a year on Thursday, with Bloomberg reporting that an index of the group fell 4.8% and erased about $787 billion in market value – the steepest single day decline since April 2025.

The report noted that as of Thursday's close, the Mag Seven index was down about 11% from the record high it reached in late May, with about $2 trillion in market cap wiped out.

As of Friday morning, six of the Mag Seven stocks were down over the last five days of trading, with Tesla down over 19%, while shares in Google parent Alphabet (-8.5%), Amazon (-6.3%), Meta (-6%), Microsoft (-1.3%) and Apple (-0.4%) were also down. By contrast, Nvidia shares are up about 1.9% in the last five days.

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Lower Manhattan.  (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Tech stocks' slide steepened after Alphabet and Tesla released their earnings report after Wednesday's trading session, with both companies reporting large capital expenditures this year.

Alphabet announced plans to spend about $200 billion on capex this year, up from a prior estimate of $190 billion, with the higher spending on AI data centers and infrastructure contributing to the company's quarterly cash flow turning for the first time since Google went public, per Bloomberg's report.

"Alphabet's higher investment outlook helps reinforce our view that the AI infrastructure buildout remains a durable theme," said Edward Jones senior analyst Brian Therien. "However, the negative share-price reaction may indicate that investors are becoming more focused on returns generated on AI-related investments."

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company needs to spend as much as it can on capital expenditures without being wasteful. (Richard Bord/WireImage)

Tesla's profits came in well below the estimates of Wall Street analysts amid a ramp up in spending, with CEO Elon Musk saying on the company's earnings call that 2026 will be a "massive capex year" and that the company "should be spending on capex as fast as we can – spend as fast as we can without it being too wasteful."

The company's spending aims to enhance its AI capabilities as well as boosting production of Optimus humanoid robots, as well as robotaxis and autonomous vehicles.

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Ticker Security Last Change Change % NVDA NVIDIA CORP. 208.76 -3.30 -1.56% AAPL APPLE INC. 321.66 -4.23 -1.30% MSFT MICROSOFT CORP. 381.58 -8.76 -2.24% GOOGL ALPHABET INC. 317.69 -24.40 -7.13% AMZN AMAZON.COM INC. 233.66 -11.19 -4.57% META META PLATFORMS INC. 606.10 -21.07 -3.36% TSLA TESLA INC. 319.69 -54.32 -14.52% Ryan Lee, senior vice president of product and strategy at Direxion, said in a note that, "While Tesla continues to invest heavily in AI and robotics, monetization remains the central concern following the earnings miss."

"Tesla has become the physical AI story, with the potential to bring artificial intelligence into consumers' everyday lives through autonomous vehicles and robotics. The question is how quickly those investments can begin supporting the valuation," Lee added.

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Semiconductor stocks delivered a solid performance in 2025, and that momentum has carried into 2026, fueled by the relentless excitement surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI.

While a recent market pullback has rattled investors, chipmakers tied to AI continue to attract strong interest as sustained demand keeps revenue growth on track.

Given the upbeat sentiment, investing in semiconductor funds such as Janus Henderson Global Technology and Innovation Fund (JNGTX - Free Report) , T. Rowe Price Science & Tech (PRSCX - Free Report) , and DWS Science and Technology A (KTCAX - Free Report) , stands out as an attractive opportunity.

AI Continues to Drive Semiconductor DemandSemiconductor stocks have surged in 2026 as companies ramp up spending on AI infrastructure. Investor enthusiasm is no longer limited to the largest chipmakers. With valuation concerns rising for some industry giants, more capital has flowed into companies specializing in networking hardware, data storage and other AI-related technologies, helping broaden the sector's rally.

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA - Free Report) remains the dominant player in the industry by market value, while soaring demand for AI chips has also boosted memory-chip manufacturers like Micron Technology (MU - Free Report) and semiconductor equipment suppliers such as Applied Materials (AMAT - Free Report) .

Even so, elevated valuations have occasionally triggered profit-taking, leading to short-term declines despite the industry's favorable long-term outlook.

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) has climbed 74.2% so far this year. Meanwhile, the latest Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) report showed that global semiconductor sales reached $298.5 billion in the first quarter, representing a 25% increase from the previous quarter.

The sector could receive another boost as agentic AI continues to gain traction, with leading technology companies investing billions of dollars in expanding AI infrastructure. Deloitte projects global semiconductor sales to hit $1 trillion in 2026, highlighting the industry's strong growth prospects as AI adoption accelerates.

Although the recent pullback has sparked some caution, the AI-driven growth story remains firmly in place. The current weakness appears to be a temporary correction rather than the end of the sector's broader upward trend.

3 Best ChoicesWe have, thus, selected three mutual funds with significant exposure to semiconductor producers. These funds carry a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #1 (Strong Buy) or 2 (Buy) and are poised to gain from the above factors. Moreover, these funds have encouraging three- and five-year returns. Additionally, the minimum initial investment is within $5000.

We expect these funds to outperform their peers in the future. Remember, the goal of the Zacks Mutual Fund Rank is to guide investors to identify potential winners and losers. Unlike most of the fund-rating systems, the Zacks Mutual Fund Rank is not just focused on past performance but also on the likely future success of the fund.

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Janus Henderson Global Technology and Innovation Fund aims for long-term growth of capital and specializes in technology. JNGTX invests the majority of its net assets in securities of companies that the portfolio manager believes will benefit significantly from advances or improvements in technology.

Janus Henderson Global Technology and Innovation Fund has a track of positive total returns for over 10 years. Specifically, JNGTX’s returns over the three and five-year benchmarks are 35.6% and 17.4%, respectively. The annual expense ratio of 0.78% is lower than the category average of 0.97%. JNGTX has a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #2.

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T. Rowe Price Science & Tech fund seeks to invest in long-term capital growth by investing at least 80% of net assets in common stocks of companies expected by T. Rowe Price to benefit from the development, advancement and use of science and technology. While most of PRSCX’s assets are invested in U.S. common stocks, other securities may also be purchased, including foreign stocks, futures, and options, in keeping with the fund’s objectives.

T. Rowe Price Science & Tech has a track record of positive total returns for over 10 years. Specifically, PRSCX’s returns over the three and five-year benchmarks are 39.4% and 17.6%, respectively. PRSCX’s annual expense ratio of 0.80% is lower than the category average of 1.01%. PRSCX has a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #1.

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DWS Science and Technology A fund seeks growth of capital. Under normal circumstances, KTCAX invests at least 80% of net assets in common stocks of U.S. companies in the technology sector.

DWS Science and Technology A fund has a track of positive total returns for over 10 years. Specifically, KTCAX’s returns over the three and five-year benchmarks are 34.4% and 17.9%, respectively. The annual expense ratio of 0.88% is lower than the category average of 0.99%. KTCAX carries a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #2.

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Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter on Friday urging policymakers to avoid "premature restrictions" on open-weight artificial intelligence models that would "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas."

Open-weight AI models are available for users to download, modify and run on their own infrastructure, and they have been the subject of fierce debate within the tech sector in recent weeks.

Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, which primarily develop proprietary, closed models. Officials and executives have been weighing whether or not to restrict access to Chinese models in the U.S.

Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup, amplified concerns earlier this month after releasing a model called Kimi K3 that outperforms cutting-edge American offerings across some industry benchmarks. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Tuesday that the Trump administration would look into whether Chinese companies were stealing American intellectual property, and stated that the government has "the ability to sanction them because of this theft."

But in the letter on Friday, the group of U.S. tech companies cautioned against any rash actions. They wrote that open-weight models strengthen competition and ensure that the benefits of the technology are "broadly shared rather than concentrated in a few hands."

"Relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe: they can be breached, misused, or fail in ways that outsiders cannot detect," the letter said. "And concentrating advanced AI capabilities behind a small number of closed models compounds that risk."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella both shared the letter on their personal social media accounts.

Elon Musk, who runs an AI business under his rocket company SpaceX, also applified the letter on social media, writing that it has his "full support" in a post on X. SpaceX did not officially sign the letter.

Read more CNBC tech newsMoonshot AI accessed Nvidia's chips despite Chinese export ban, White House official saysAlphabet and Tesla test Wall Street's patience as AI spending overshadows growthAlphabet earnings takeaways: Q2 revenue beats, GOOGL stock sinks on 2026 capex hikeTesla misses on earnings, as free cash flow turns negative and margins slideOpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter. Both companies, which are each valued at nearly $1 trillion, are gearing up for potentially massive IPOs that could land as soon as this year. Anthropic confidentially filed its prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June, and OpenAI followed suit days later.

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, said Thursday that the company believes in broad access, and that he has not been involved in any conversations with the Trump administration about potentially banning Chinese open-weight models in the U.S.

"I think that, that fundamentally, AI and AI usage is something that is actually very important to democratize," Brockman told reporters during a briefing in New York City. "And so, for me, at a sort of deep level, I think that having more models, more usage, that is a good thing."

White House advisor Michael Kratsios on Wednesday said that Moonshot AI developed its Kimi K3 model by distilling Anthropic's technology. Distillation is a term for an AI training method where a smaller, less capable model is built using outputs from an existing, stronger model.

Kratsios wrote in a post on X that legitimate AI distillation plays a vital role in the open innovation ecosystem, but warned that "large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology" is "unacceptable."

In the letter on Friday, the U.S. tech companies said that concerns about unlawful distillation should be addressed through "targeted legal and commercial frameworks" instead of with "sweeping restrictions on techniques that play an important role in AI innovation."

"Our AI leadership will be judged not by one frontier AI model, but by whether the United States builds a strong, open ecosystem that diffuses into every sector," the letter said. "This is essential for creating opportunities for innovation and prosperity across the country."

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Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA, XETRA:NVD) CEO Jensen Huang posted on X for the first time on Friday, sharing a multi-company letter that defends open-weight AI models as essential to US technology leadership.

Huang, who joined the platform last month but had not posted until now, used his debut message to promote a letter signed by Nvidia and roughly 20 other organizations, including Meta, Microsoft and Palantir.

The letter argues that open models strengthen safety, accelerate innovation and support national AI sovereignty, and that US leadership should not rest on a single frontier model alone.

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.… pic.twitter.com/t02bi51N4C

— Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) July 24, 2026 The post follows a week of public comments from Huang on the AI policy debate in Washington. Earlier in the week, he told Axios that American companies should be free to use Chinese AI models, and he separately described Chinese models as strong performers that expand demand for Nvidia's chips and data center infrastructure rather than threaten US companies.

Those comments put Huang at odds with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who this week warned that Chinese AI firms could face sanctions over what he called industrial-scale distillation attacks on US intellectual property. The letter Huang shared addresses that concern directly, arguing that unlawful extraction of value from closed models is a legitimate issue but should be handled through targeted legal and commercial measures rather than broad restrictions on open-weight AI.

The letter also frames open-weight models as a way to widen access to AI development, allowing startups, established businesses, universities and public institutions to build on advanced models without training their own from scratch.

Huang had stayed off X while rival chipmaker executives built a presence on the platform for years. His account, registered in June, listed just a handful of followers before Friday's post.

Amkor shares are climbing with conviction. Why is AMKR stock up today? Nvidia–Amkor $1.5B Pact Boosts AI PackagingAmkor has already supplied advanced packaging solutions supporting Nvidia platforms across data center processors, networking chipsets, and accelerated computing systems. The expanded partnership is designed to bring new technologies to market at scale as AI infrastructure demand grows, while strengthening domestic semiconductor manufacturing and supply-chain resilience.

“This strategic partnership with NVIDIA underscores the central role advanced packaging plays in enabling the future of AI,” said Kevin Engel, CEO of Amkor Technology. “Our agreement with NVIDIA accelerates our long-term roadmap and supports our ability to deliver full turnkey advanced packaging and test solutions.”

Amkor Shares Race HigherAMKR Price Action: At the time of publication, Amkor shares are trading 4.94% higher at $68.56, according to data from Benzinga Pro.

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Ghe LLC reduced its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 17.9% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm owned 748,086 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 162,910 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA comprises about 27.7% of Ghe LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 2nd largest position. Ghe LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $130,466,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 12.4% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 324,901 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $43,631,000 after purchasing an additional 35,815 shares in the last quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.0% during the 4th quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,346,417 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $315,100,000 after buying an additional 22,929 shares in the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 6.7% during the 4th quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 58,396 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $7,842,000 after buying an additional 3,653 shares in the last quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 30.7% in the 4th quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC now owns 50,658 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $6,805,000 after buying an additional 11,900 shares during the period. Finally, Wealth Group Ltd. lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 15.7% in the 1st quarter. Wealth Group Ltd. now owns 6,598 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $715,000 after buying an additional 896 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes Several equities research analysts have commented on NVDA shares. Mizuho set a $300.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Wells Fargo & Company reiterated an “overweight” rating and issued a $315.00 price objective (up from $265.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, May 12th. BNP Paribas Exane boosted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $270.00 to $285.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Daiwa Securities Group upped their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $215.00 to $255.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Finally, Evercore reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $413.00 target price (up from $352.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have given a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $304.26.

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NVIDIA Stock Down 1.6% NVDA stock opened at $208.76 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.05 trillion, a P/E ratio of 31.97, a PEG ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 2.21. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a current ratio of 3.44. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.07 and a one year high of $236.54. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $208.22 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $195.73.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The company’s revenue was up 85.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.81 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 4th were issued a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 4th. This is an increase from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is 15.31%.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to repurchase up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA In other news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at $25,053,803.55. This trade represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the sale, the director owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015. 3.94% of the stock is owned by insiders.

NVIDIA News Roundup Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced a joint AI research lab with KAIST in Seoul, backed by a $300 million five-year collaboration, to advance agentic AI models for Korean industries and language use cases. The deal includes compute contributions, funding for at least 10 researchers annually, and NVIDIA internships/full-time hiring pathways, reinforcing NVIDIA’s global AI ecosystem and talent pipeline. Article Title Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s partnership with Amkor to support U.S. advanced chip packaging expansion is another supportive development, as it strengthens supply-chain capacity for next-generation AI chips and helps meet rising demand for AI infrastructure. Article Title Positive Sentiment: Investor sentiment remains constructive on NVIDIA’s AI leadership, with analysts and market commentators highlighting its dominance in GPUs, strong fundamentals, and technical breakout signals above key moving averages. Article Title Neutral Sentiment: Some commentary suggests the stock may face near-term “sell-the-news” pressure after its latest earnings beat, especially as traders reassess whether AI spending momentum has already been priced in. Neutral Sentiment: Broader AI-capex headlines from Alphabet and other hyperscalers continue to drive sector interest, but they also appear to be fueling rotation within semiconductors rather than uniformly lifting NVIDIA shares. Negative Sentiment: NVIDIA is also facing renewed competitive noise, including AMD’s push with Anthropic and a wave of articles questioning whether large AI spending could eventually favor other chip and memory suppliers, which may temper enthusiasm for NVDA in the short term. Article Title About NVIDIA (Free Report)

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.

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Nvidia (NVDA -1.56%) stock is actually beating the Nasdaq and the S&P 500, up about 11% year to date as of July 22.

For most stocks, that's not bad at all, and most investors would take that.

But Nvidia is not like most stocks. It is the largest company in the world by market cap and is the leader and the face of the AI revolution.

Over the last three years, it averaged a 67% annualized return, and over the previous five years, it has an average annualized return of 60%.

The last three calendar years -- from 2023 through 2025 -- it returned 38%, 170%, and 240%, respectively.

So, while it's beating the benchmarks, the return has fallen short of recent years, despite ridiculously strong revenue and earnings growth numbers and a current quarter outlook that calls for revenue to increase 11% sequentially to $91 billion.

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Nvidia is trading at a near-historic low valuation With a 90% market share in its core business of making graphics processing units (GPUs) for data centers, AI accelerators, and other applications, Nvidia is a staple in many portfolios.

But right now, this is a particularly good time to either add shares or take a new position in Nvidia. Here's why.

One, the stock's valuation is as cheap as it's been in at least the past five years. It is currently trading at 31 times earnings and 23 times forward earnings. At no time within the last five years has Nvidia's P/E ratio been as low as it's been in recent weeks.

The P/E ratio is roughly 41% below its 10-year average of 53.

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And its five-year PEG ratio, which gauges the stock price in relation to its long-term earnings growth expectations, is actually in value territory. A PEG ratio below 1 means a stock is undervalued, and currently, Nvidia's is at a historic low of 0.56.

The last time Nvidia's P/E ratio was even remotely close to 31 was in April 2025 after the tariffs were announced. After that, the stock price rose from a low of $94 per share on April 4, 2025, to finish the year at $186 per share -- a gain of 99%.

A history of gains leading up to earnings reports History also says that Nvidia's shares tend to rise leading up to its earnings report, as investors anticipate more blowout results. Over the past five quarters, starting with Q1 2025, which Nvidia reported on May 28, 2025, Nvidia stock has risen in the month before earnings were reported.

Some gains were smaller, like the 3% gain to $182 per share leading up to the fiscal Q2 report on Aug. 27, 2025. But some jumps were huge, like the 24% gain to $134 per share one month leading up to the Q1 report on May 28, 2025.

I'm not saying Nvidia stock will jump 24% between now and Nvidia's Aug. 26 fiscal Q2 earnings report, but there is a parallel with that 24% jump leading up to Q1 2025. At that point, Nvidia stock was trading at multiple that is similar to its current multiple.

Bottom line: This is a great time to consider Nvidia stock.

According to the latest estimates, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is scheduled to pay its third quarterly dividend of 2026 on October 2.

The chipmaker will reward shareholders with $0.25 per share, meaning the payment will remain unchanged from the previous Nvidia dividend payout date on June 26, as per the data Finbold assessed on Dividend.com.

Like the June payout, the upcoming dividend is a continuation of the company’s new dividend policy of distributing 50% of free cash flow via dividends and share buybacks.

Shareholders holding 100 NVDA shares will receive $25 in dividends pre-tax – a significant increase from just $1 received in April.

Nvidia stock dividend schedule. Source: Dividend.com New Nvidia dividend strategy continues With about 24.391 billion shares outstanding, the total dividend payout will amount to approximately $6.1 billion. To be eligible for the next Nvidia stock dividend, investors will have to have purchased their shares by August 27, at least according to the current estimates.

As of press time, the company’s projected three-year dividend compound annual growth rate (CAGR) stands at 262.2% for 2026 and 197.4% for 2027. On the other hand, the projected five-year CAGR is expected to exceed 116% in 2026 and 128% in 2027. The estimated 10-year dividend CAGR is projected at more than 51%.

Despite the rapid dividend growth, however, Nvidia’s forward payout ratio remains just 7.84%, suggesting the company retains the vast majority of its earnings for investments. Nonetheless, the company has increased its dividend for three consecutive years, showing it still remains committed to returning capital, even while maintaining an aggressive growth strategy. 

Overall, Nvidia currently has a dividend yield of 0.13%. For comparison, the average yield in the sector is 1.37%. Finally, the stock pays dividends on a quarterly basis, and the price usually recovers within 2.5 days after the ex-dividend date.

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