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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an event in January.
Nvidia (NVDA) stock rose nearly 4% on Wednesday onwards of the release of the AI chip giant’s hotly anticipated fourth-quarter earnings report after the closing bell.
Nvidia carries the record for both the largest one-day increase and decrease in market value, and options traders on Wednesday were put themselves for another sizable move in the stock in the coming days.
Nvidia options pricing on Wednesday afternoon set forwarded traders expected shares to move roughly $10, or about 8%, in either direction during the two days after Wednesday’s earnings. That drive be the stock’s largest post-earnings move since May when shares gained more than 12% in the two days after Nvidia busted past earnings expectations.
Nvidia shares fell 1.5% in extended trading Wednesday despite better-than-expected dnouement develops on both the top and bottom lines amid booming demand for AI.
Nvidia stock retreated after each of its two most up to date reports. Shares lost more than 4% in the days after its August report and almost 3% after its November earnings. The guests’s results also exceeded expectations in both of those instances, but disappointed investors who may have been looking for equanimous larger beats.
Nvidia’s earnings arrived during a difficult stretch for stocks. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite had descent in four consecutive sessions before closing slightly higher on Wednesday. The Magnificent Seven stocks, which bring into the world accounted for a large share of the stock market’s gains over the last two years, were trading in correction region on Wednesday.
Big tech stocks have been weighed down by substantial political and economic uncertainty of late. Chinese start-up DeepSeek urged a reckoning with Silicon Valley’s AI strategy late last month, and tech stocks have struggled to quaking off concerns about overspending. At the same time, the economic outlook has been muddled in the last month by signs of intractable inflation and the Trump administration’s ever-changing tariff plans.
Even with its gain during regular trading hours Wednesday, Nvidia ownership has lost 12% of its value since closing at an all-time high in early January. Shares remain up 66% finished the past 12 months.
UPDATE: This article has been updated with the latest stock market quotations and information about Nvidia’s earnings report.