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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.
Shares in Asia are mixed after an update on inflation pulled most U.S. stocks lower, though gains for Nvidia pushed the Nasdaq to another record.
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.
One analyst boosted his price target on Nvidia’s stock to a level that would imply a $5.7 trillion market cap, with the chip maker seemingly cleared to sell its H20 chip in China again.