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After rocketing higher in 2021, Nvidia shares have been under pressure in 2022.
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Like much of the rest of the stock market, to say nothing of the beaten-down tech sector, Nvidia has had a tough start to 2022. Even as the stock moves higher on Friday, next week offers potential catalysts for a bigger turnaround.
Chip maker
Nvidia
(ticker: NVDA) will host its flagship technical conference called GTC next Monday to Thursday, with the keynote from CEO Jensen Huang coinciding with the company’s investor day on Tuesday.
For a company that has seen its share price fall 13% this year—though the stock remains up more than 100% over the past 12 months, having roared to an all-time high in November 2021—the events are a big deal.
In focus will be a wave of new products, because the company tends to not provide target financial models, said Citi analysts Atif Malik and Amanda Scarnati in a note on Friday.
This has been the case in the past.
The team at Citi highlighted how last year Nvidia surprised investors with the announcement of the powerful new Grace computer processing unit (CPU), as well as raising the prospect of monetizing artificial intelligence software. Updates on sales to the critical gaming industry and $8 billion in the contract pipeline from the auto industry were another added bonus.
A lot has happened to the company since then.
A computer chip powerhouse, Nvidia has been a beneficiary of a spending boom in cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The group has also been boosted by its move to dominate in the metaverse, which…
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