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Nvidia owns a 7% stake in CoreWeave, and made it possible for the young company to be the first to launch its latest GPUs. In February, CoreWeave became the first hyperscaler to make Nvidia's new Blackwell architecture broadly available -- and it just did the same recently with the latest iteration, Blackwell Ultra.
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock currently trades for around $155. However, Loop Capital just gave Nvidia a new price target of $250 per share. That indicates around 60% upside from today's price, but the implications of a $250-per-share stock are far greater.
If Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) were in the stock equivalent of a boxing match, we'd have a technical knockout so far this year. Palantir has crushed Nvidia, with its shares skyrocketing close to 70%, while Nvidia's stock is up by only a single-digit percentage.
The first two factors caused Nvidia stock to fall 9.8% last week, although the overall market also had a very bad week, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes down 3.1% and 3.5%, respectively.
Tech led US stocks higher on Tuesday as a key consumer inflation print showed inflation accelerated in June, big banks kicked off earnings season, and Nvidia was set to receive a green light for trade with China from the Trump administration.