My thoughts after the big run-up⦠[RiskHedge Report] [Stephen McBride]
Is Nvidia still a buy after surging 25% in 24 hours? By Stephen McBride - RiskHedge Nvidia (NVDA) is the most popular stock on the planet right now. Itâs surged 25% in just 24 hours... And itâs getting closer and closer to becoming the ninth company to ever achieve a $1 trillion market cap. Longtime readers know Iâve been a huge fan of NVDA for years. Back in 2018, I said: â[If I could only buy one stock for the next five years, it would be NVDA](.â Readers who acted on my guidance back then could have made a 480% gain. But after such a big run-up, many investors want to know: Is Nvidia still a buy? - Avoid this costly mistake. Investors often underestimate how much disruptors can grow. From 2009 to 2013, Amazon (AMZN) stock gained 680%. At the time, most âexpertsâ said the easy money had already been made. In 2013, CNN even called Amazon âone of the most overvalued stocks.â But from 2014 to its peak in 2021, Amazon had soared 845%. Wall Street âanalystsâ have also written off Tesla (TSLA) for years. Early investors who refused to listen are sitting on 15,000% gains. Bottom line: Disruptors can surge for years and years. Thatâs the case with Nvidia, too. As regular readers know, Nvidia sits at the center of the worldâs hottest tech trendâartificial intelligence (AI). Its specialized GPU computer chips are the âbrainsâ powering AI machines. From 2012 to 2018, NVDA surged nearly 2,000%. The stock was trading at record levels. Who wants to buy a stock after such a run-up? Looking back now, the ensuing sell-off was barely a blip on the radar: Today, many investors are balking at the thought of buying NVDA. Itâs more than doubled this year... and itâs trading at a record valuation. How could you buy it? But⦠Mega-winner stocks like NVDA can run further and faster than you can possibly imagine. Wait for the ârightâ valuation, and youâll be left behind at the bottom of every cycle. Iâve seen it play out time and time again. Hereâs the bottom line: - AI doesnât exist without Nvidia. Its GPU chips perform millions of calculations simultaneously, processing vast amounts of data. Thatâs different from how other computer chips work. Most computer chipsâlike the one powering the laptop or phone youâre reading this onâcalculate one by one. This makes GPUs ideal for training AIs to think like humans. And no other firm makes better GPUs than Nvidia. Itâs not even close. This is why Nvidia already dominates 95% of the AI GPU market. Nvidia also dominates the market for AI stocks. Today, there are few ârealâ AI stocks to invest in. Iâm talking about ones actually making significant money from AI. Yet⦠there are trillions of dollars chasing this trend. That means a lot of money is going to go into a handful of stocks. This weekâs huge move in Nvidia is evidence of this. Put simply, if you want to invest in AI today, Nvidia is the top choice. Itâs where all the money will go. - This signal will tell me when to sell Nvidia⦠Iâm waiting for a high-profile AI firm to go public. This could signal AI is toast⦠and that Nvidiaâs dominant rise is over. Iâm struck by how many times the leading company in a hot sector goes public⦠marking âthe top.â The AOL Time Warner merger in 2000âstill the largest everâculminated in the dot-com bust. The Blackstone (BX) IPO in 2007 coincided with the top for financial markets and preceded the Great Recession. Glencoreâs (GLNCY) 2011 listing marked the peak in the commodity super-cycle. Coinbaseâs (COIN) IPO looks like it marked a top for crypto at the very least. Weâre at least a year or two away from a high-profile AI IPO. Most AI firms are still in the start-up phase. They havenât even begun disrupting the big players. At least not in any meaningful way. This tells me the AI trend has a long way to go before it maturesâand that NVDA can keep climbing. Stephen McBride
Chief Analyst, RiskHedge PS: What do you think is the best way to profit from AI? Share your thoughts at stephen@riskhedge.com. In the mailbag⦠We recently heard from one RiskHedge reader who [accepted Stephenâs challenge to give Googleâs AI, Bard, a try](: I like this quote, âIf you want reassurance Google blew its AI lead, give Bard a try. Having spent several hours playing around with both GPT and Bard, Iâm more confident than ever âpeak Googleâ is in the rearview mirror.â I didnât even waste a few hours on Bard. A few minutes was enough! Agree 100%. âAndries This email was sent to {EMAIL} as part of your subscription to RiskHedge Report.
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