Nvidia cheaper than Hershey but everyone's panicking about war — contrarian buy
Nvidia has lost $1 trillion in value and is now trading at its cheapest level since before the AI boom. Meanwhile, markets are tanking on war fears, and Goldman Sachs warns the earnings beats that fueled last quarter's rally won't repeat. This is a contrarian setup — Nvidia is cheap precisely because everyone is scared.
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Bloomberg reports that Nvidia has shed roughly $1 trillion in market value in under two months, pushing its price relative to its earnings down to the lowest level since before the AI explosion — cheaper, as one headline notes, than Hershey. The trigger for the latest leg down isn't anything Nvidia did wrong: it's a broader market panic after Trump declared the Iran ceasefire 'over.' Goldman Sachs adds that the easy earnings beats that powered the last rally will be hard to repeat, which has soured sentiment further. But here's the thing: Nvidia is still the dominant force in AI chips, its next-gen rack delays are a timing problem not a demand problem, and the selling pressure is being driven by geopolitical fear unrelated to the company's actual business. When a dominant company gets this cheap this fast because of outside panic, the eventual snapback can be sharp.