Nvidia's optimistic forecast fails to convince Wall Street
The stock closed lower at $120.15, while other members of the group such as Microsoft and Amazon also ended the session weaker, after Nvidia's earnings failed to inspire the kind of gains that became a hallmark of the AI rally through 2023 and 2024.
To be sure, Nvidia's first-quarter revenue forecast was better than market estimates, with CEO Jensen Huang also noting the company was seeing «amazing» demand for its new Blackwell chips.
But growth is slowing. Nvidia's projected revenue increase of about 65% is far from the triple-digit growth that investors have been accustomed to in the past year, while the company also expects gross margin to dip to 71%, the lowest level in at least a year.
Nvidia is viewed as a barometer of the health of AI spending and the two-year boom propelled its valuation to more than $3 trillion. Investors were hoping its results would restart a rally that has sputtered following the «Magnificent Seven» stocks' peaks in late 2024.
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