Nvidia Has More Than Doubled This Year. How To Know When To Sell
This article is from the free weekly Barron's Tech email newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered directly to your inbox.Ride On. Hi everyone. It's good to be back from my book leave. Let's tackle the question on everyone's mind while I was gone: What to do with Nvidia stock.It's been an incredible run. Nvidia is now the second-best performing stock in the S&P 500 -- up 148% this year, just behind Super Micro Computer, another name that readers of this newsletter know very well.In terms of when to sell a stock, I often draw on the investing wisdom of Jeff Vinik, a one-time hedge fund manager and former portfolio manager at Fidelity. Vinik has said in prior interviews that he sells stocks when fundamentals deteriorate, valuations get high, or he finds better ideas.Laffont noted that some $100 trillion, in today's dollars, has been invested in CPU infrastructure since the PC was invented. All of that will need to be replaced with GPU-focused equipment over time. There are trillions i