Nvidia stock sell-off: Time to back up the truck?

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The Nvidia (
NVDA
)
CES
-induced sell-off attack plan.

At the glitzy tech gathering this Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
shared
that the company has kicked production of its much-anticipated
Blackwell chip
into high gear. “We’re racing to get Blackwells into every data center in the world,” he told a packed house while sporting a black shiny alligator leather jacket.

The company also unveiled a host of new technology to support its growing ambitions in robotics and driverless cars, Yahoo Finance tech editor
Daniel Howley
reported
.

But the Street wanted more from its stock darling.

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Huang’s more subdued words relative to elevated expectations combined with general investor skittishness
sent Nvidia into a tailspin
— with bears sending the stock down 6% on Tuesday despite hitting a record high a day prior.

The stock is now off by 8% from those aforementioned highs.

Wedbush tech analyst
Dan Ives
was in the room when Huang spoke at CES and thinks the sell-off is way overdone.

“We could go back to quarters where the stock sells off, bears come out of hibernation mode, stock goes to $100, then all of a sudden, two months later, back up to all-time highs,” Ives continued. “These knee-jerk reactions, it’s easy to get scared by them because they don’t say anything about near-term demand.”

“The reality is you come out of that more bullish rather than less bullish because of what the market opportunity means in terms of robotics, autonomous, and the future,” he said.

From Ives’s perspective, the future for Nvidia and AI looks bright. In one analogy, he placed more traditional investments such as healthcare or finance in the bucket akin to a “minivan going 40 miles per hour” while tech stocks such as Nvidia were a “Ferrari in the left lane.”

Comparing excitement around Nvidia to the buzz CES once saw when Apple (
AAPL
) co-founder
Steve Jobs
unveiled the iPhone in 2007, he added, “There’s something different. There’s something new.” Nvidia’s current position as a chip provider for future in-demand products also puts it ahead of competitors, said Ives.

“Broadly, we’re going to see some white knuckles in the next six months,” Ives said. “My view is tech stocks are up 25% this year. I think Nvidia is well over $4 trillion along with Apple.”