Nvidia’s Earnings Could Save the Market… Or It Could Be a Trap...

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08-21

The Market Is Stuck. Nvidia Holds the Key. But Watch Out.

This week, bonds called the shots. Next week, all eyes turn to **Jensen Huang** and his AI empire.

  • Since the last earnings report, $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ stock has gone nowhere.

  • Yet options markets are pricing in a ±5.3% swing by Friday’s close.

That’s a $562 billion market cap move, up or down.

NVDA

The Bull Case: Everything Looks Perfect

  • Nvidia carries a 7.6% weight in the S&P 500.

  • Its forward P/E has cooled to ~20, way below the 5-year average of 63.

  • The stock hasn’t rallied into earnings, less risk of a "buy the rumor, sell the news" flush.

On paper, Nvidia has everything it needs to reignite the broader market.

But Here’s the Catch, According to Bespoke

Nvidia is a "triple-play king":

  • Beats EPS estimates

  • Beats revenue estimates

  • Raises forward guidance

The problem? On the last three triple-plays, the stock actually fell on earnings day. Because perfection is already priced in...

The Million-Dollar Question (Let’s Debate)

Can Nvidia still surprise to the upside… or has the market become immune to good news?Expectations are so sky-high that even a clean sweep might not be enough.

Over to the TTM Community:

  1. Will Nvidia rescue the market this week?

  2. Or are we setting up for a massive “sell the news" event?

  3. And if not Nvidia, who else can carry this market?

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AI Giants Call for Slowdown — Can Chip Stocks Hold?
Chips closed Friday strong: SOXL +5.23%, Marvell +4.03% to $236.10, Intel +2.61% to $102.94, AMD +2.49%, Nvidia flat at −0.03%. Over the weekend Anthropic's Amodei called publicly for slowing frontier model development, and Altman and Musk both backed him, all three endorsing independent safety evaluations. By Monday's pre-open the sector had turned: SOXL −6.94%, Intel −3.68%, Marvell −3.49%, Nasdaq-100 futures −1%, the Nikkei −2%. Nobody has announced halted training or cut capex — this is a shock to expected demand, not to orders. Safety testing and inference burn compute too. Buy this dip?
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