Sean Sharpe
Catalyst Swing Trader, Author of Stocks in Play Newsletter
Nvidia has plenty of fuel left and looks set to rip. As @StockMarketNerd notes, the world expects its outperformance to fade after years of shattering expectations and amid customers' custom chips, but its fiscal 2028 guide suggests the gap is widening, with a market large enough for Nvidia and plenty of ASICs. x.com x.com
Nvidia retains pricing power if its full system keeps reducing customers' cost per effective AI task. Strong AI demand alone does not ensure profits across the chain: rising chip, memory and optical costs burden buyers, while tighter financing and slow collections threaten operators. Large customers developing their own chips could pressure Nvidia's margins even as the market grows. x.com
Nvidia gets paid for AI infrastructure while the companies funding AI buildouts bear the spending. Alongside Apple's edge hardware business, Nvidia's position as a supplier distinguishes it from the AI spenders that are losing to companies collecting the cash. x.com
Low Anthropic spending relative to customer expenses points to an enterprise AI adoption gap that leaves Nvidia reliant on intermediaries able to build their own chips. Anthropic's S-1 says over half the Fortune 500 were $100k+ annual customers as of September, yet spending among its publicly traded customers averaged under 0.1% of expenses in Q3 2026. That measures one provider and cannot show whether AI deployments succeed; Nvidia needs more enterprises buying its compute directly. x.com
Nvidia's CUDA retains developers, putting it among 12 stocks that could dominate the decade ahead. Nebius's GPU rental price rise signals demand; Fabrinet and Credo supply AI connectivity. DraftKings has betting scale; Microsoft has Azure and an OpenAI partnership; Figma anchors design work; Shopify powers stores. TeraWulf pivots power sites to AI leases; Constellation, the largest US nuclear operator, signs big-tech power deals; Meta spends on AI; Uber has autonomous-vehicle partnerships. x.com … Show more
Nvidia's cash could have more value invested in AI companies with strong demand but too little capital to scale, especially neoclouds that can execute. Their valuations look very attractive now, making equity stakes preferable to more buybacks or dividends despite criticism of circular deals. SpaceX may need the money less because it is already very big. x.com x.com x.com
Nvidia faces risks on both sides of the AI cycle. Vendor financing is a concern at the center of the buildout: strong AI sentiment brings competition, while weaker sentiment brings a slowdown. That makes it the largest holding of greatest concern. x.com
Nvidia stands to gain as every company fights over the same chips, because whoever owns the chip controls the game. Apple raising Mac and iPad prices on soaring chip costs, as @KobeissiLetter reported, marks the start of AI inflation, and Nvidia stock should surely go crazy from here. x.com x.com
NVIDIA's free-model plan could defend chip demand as the two largest AI labs cut reliance on its hardware. OpenAI is building a chip with Broadcom; Anthropic mostly uses Google and Amazon chips. NVIDIA is putting together Reflection AI (in talks), Hugging Face and Groq for free models and paid chips. At 11x expected 2029 earnings versus ~19x for Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon and 32x for Apple, its price reflects fears of slower AI spending and lost customers. NVIDIA is a 'Maximum Opportunity'. … Show more
Nvidia's AI profits are real, but its compute demand depends heavily on fragile venture funding. Per Chamath, 1% of firms account for 90% of AI spending, and 72 cents of each dollar comes from unprofitable VC-backed firms. Venture money passes through startups to Nvidia and cloud suppliers; if the next raises fail, concentrated orders could contract together. x.com x.com x.com
Semiconductors could stay undersupplied for a long time as more capable AI per dollar creates more uses and drives compute demand. Micron and NVIDIA trade at low forward P/Es because investors fear peak cyclical earnings, yet current earnings show no slowdown. Shortages may worsen as AI adoption spreads, though the industry could remain cyclical; a reversal of the forced rollover trade is hoped for, not assured. x.com x.com x.com