Nvidia was dropping early on Thursday as concerns about the artificial-intelligence trade looked to be outweighing positive assessments by analysts ahead of the chip maker's earnings.
Nvidia shares were down 0.7% at $192.45 in premarket trading, broadly in line with the wider market. Among other chip makers, Advanced Micro Devices was down 0.8% and Broadcom was falling 0.2%.
The focus continues to be on Nvidia's earnings on Nov. 19, which come amid a debate about potentially stretched valuations for companies linked to the AI boom.
Still, Wall Street is generally upbeat.
"Nvidia remains best positioned to win in AI," wrote Oppenheimer analyst Rick Schafer in a research note, as he raised his target price on the stock to $265 from $225 and reiterated an Outperform rating. He backs Nvidia to beat consensus expectations of $1.25 in earnings per share and $54.7 billion in sales for the October quarter.
That was echoed by Susquehanna analyst Christopher Rolland, who raised his target price on Nvidia stock to $230 from $210 with a Positive rating.
"We expect better results and guidance as [Nvidia's] GB300 [hardware] is expected to continue ramping in 2H...AI demand continues to be supported by ever-increasing hyperscale capex plans," Rolland wrote.
AI startup Anthropic said Wednesday it plans to invest $50 billion in American data-center infrastructure, partnering with cloud-computing company Fluidstack and beginning with sites in Texas and New York. While Anthropic didn't say what chips it would be using in its data centers, the company has previously said it uses a mix of processors from Nvidia, Amazon.com and Google.
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