Why Shares of Nvidia Are Sinking Today

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Bram Berkowitz, The Motley Fool

Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 8:39 AM 3 min read

Shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) were trading astir 7% little astatine 10:52 a.m. ET today. In a filing past night, Nvidia disclosed that it would beryllium taking a $5.5 cardinal complaint successful its archetypal 4th of fiscal 2026 aft the U.S. authorities informed the institution that it volition request a licence to export definite chips to China and different countries.

Nvidia volition request the licence to merchantability its little precocious H20 chips successful China, including Hong Kong and Macao. The licence request volition beryllium successful "effect for the indefinite future" and is intended to forestall China from obtaining tech that could beryllium utilized to physique a supercomputer. Nvidia attributed the $5.5 cardinal complaint to getting H20 products for inventory, acquisition commitments, and related reserves.

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The determination builds connected actions initially undertaken by the Biden medication to forestall immoderate of Nvidia's astir precocious chips from reaching China successful bid to stymie its artificial quality (AI) capabilities. In fact, Nvidia really built the H20 spot to comply with the export restrictions. CNBC estimates the chips brought successful $12 cardinal to $15 cardinal successful gross successful 2024. However, earlier this year, a Chinese institution called DeepSeek utilized the H20 chips to make a chatbot akin to OpenAI's ChatGPT, supposedly astatine a fraction of the cost.

Wedbush expert Dan Ives, who covers Nvidia and galore different tech giants, said connected X that investors should "get utilized to this quality travel successful US/China tariff conflict but it's a crippled of precocious stakes poker and request to buckle spot belt. Look past the chaos. Nvidia the lone AI spot successful the satellite ... request not the issue." Still, helium acknowledged successful a probe enactment that Nvidia volition look important roadblocks successful its effort to merchantability successful the Chinese market.

While the caller licence request seems related to the tense commercialized negotiations betwixt the U.S. and China, this is besides a determination that has been gathering since 2022. U.S. presidents connected the close and near look to privation to support Nvidia's chips retired of China, truthful the export licence whitethorn past longer than a imaginable commercialized warfare -- it's hard to know.

That said, Nvidia present trades astatine 23 times guardant earnings, toward the bottommost extremity of its scope implicit the past 5 years, and analysts similar Ives inactive look to deliberation the institution has a important moat. This could beryllium the clip to commencement nibbling.

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