Dan Ives Says Nvidia Fuels AI Market, But What If It Has a Lehman Moment?
Nvidia (NVDA) reached a record $5.78 trillion intraday market value on Monday, and tech analyst Dan Ives says Wall Streets numbers for the chipmaker are probably 25% to 30% too low. Yet Nvidia, the artificial intelligence (AI) bellwether, leads 10 stocks that make up about 39% of the S&P 500. A stumble could reach well beyond chip investors. Sponsored Sponsored How Strong Is the Bull Case for Nvidia? Ives is a partner and senior managing director at merchant bank Yorkville Ives & Co. He told CNBCs Closing Bell that Asian checks show chip demand at 13 to 14 times supply. “…its the one chip in the world fueling the AI revolution.” Dan Ives, CNBC Michael Burry, the investor behind The Big Short, disagrees. He holds Nvidia put options through September 2027 and says the AI bubble could burst early. Sponsored Sponsored However, Singapore‘s DBS Group told Bloomberg Nvidia trades at 17 times forward earnings, versus Cisco’s 100 before the crash. Could Nvidia Have Its Lehman Moment? Lehman Brothers shows how one failure can freeze credit. Its $639 billion bankruptcy in September 2008 was then the largest one-day market loss. Nvidia invests in customers that buy its chips. In August, it announced preliminary agreements with six financial firms for about $500 billion in customer financing,









