Nvidia had a rough start to 2025. Investors still love the stock.
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nvidia had a rocky start to the year. That’s done little to dull its popularity among individual investors, many of whom are positioning for the shares to rally after Wednesday’s earnings report.
The graphics-chip maker lost nearly $600 billion in market value in a single session in late January when news of a lower-cost artificial-intelligence model from Chinese company DeepSeek temporarily rattled investors’ confidence in the AI trade. The shares have since recovered much of those declines. The stock, which has soared nearly 800% since the end of 2022, is down just 3% in 2025 and 8.7% from Jan.
24, before the DeepSeek threat emerged. The competitive worries have done little to shake individual investors’ faith in the stock. In fact, they have poured more than $5.7 billion into Nvidia shares this year through Friday, more than double the net flows over the same period last year, according to Vanda Research data.
That includes $562 million the day of the DeepSeek selloff, the highest one-day sum on record dating back to 2014. On the investing platform Interactive Brokers, Nvidia is one of the top two traded tickers of 2025, with nearly 554,000 net buy orders placed for the stock through Feb. 18, according to data from the brokerage.
That includes more than 200,000 orders from the week of the tech rout. “Nvidia continues to be the golden child of the AI revolution," said Dan Ives, managing director of Wedbush Securities and one of Wall Street’s biggest AI bulls. “Nothing’s changing that, including DeepSeek." Investors are scooping up Nvidia options contracts that would pay out if shares jump this week after the company’s earnings report.
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