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I think it’s time to give Nvidia a rest–selling my position tomorrow

I think it’s time to give Nvidia a rest–selling my position tomorrow

When the CEO extends the company’s $500 billion revenue projection for 2026 by adding another $500 billion for 2027–we’re talking $1 trillion in revenue here, folks–and the stock barely budges, I think we’re looking at a stock in need of a valuation reset. That’s exactly what happened to shares of Nvidia (NVDA) yesterday and today, March 16 and 17.And it’s why I’m selling Nvida out of my 50 Stocks Portfolio tomorrow, March 18. I expect I’ll be back into Nvidia shares when the valuation is less stretched–either because of a pull back in the shares or because projected revenues have turned into booked earnings (or some of each.) I’ve done this rotation in and out of Nvidia once before, selling in late 2023 and then rebuying in December 2023 for a 290% gain as of the close on March 17, 2026. Nvidia shares predawn 1.75% for 2026 as of the close on March 16.

Is AI spending insane? Depends on what an AI monopoly is worth–and if there will be one

Is AI spending insane? Depends on what an AI monopoly is worth–and if there will be one

Journey back with me to the heady days of 1999 when another technology boom pushed stocks to record highs on the promise of revolutionizing everything. Why is this exercise important?Because it’s a real life example of the work on the role of monopolies in our economy by economists like Joan Robinson and Paul Sweezy. Their work begins with the extreme excess returns that companies with effective monopoly power generate–and points to the important role that monopolies play in the business cycle of boom and bust. And because monopoly economics are critical to deciding if the current generation of AI stocks are really going to be worth what investors now say they are.

Saturday Night Quarterback says, for the week ahead expect…

Saturday Night Quarterback says, for the week ahead expect…

I expect more volatility as forth quarter earnings season picks up speed. Next week, despite the short week created by Monday’s Martin Luther King holiday, 157 companies are scheduled to report earnings with highlights that include Netflix (NFLX) on Tuesday; and General Electric (GE),Procter & Gamble (PG), and Intel (INTC) on Thursday.

I think it’s time to give Nvidia a rest–selling my position tomorrow

Nvidia speeds things up in AI

I’d argue that the bIg news out of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas so far isn’t about new chips, or flashy hardware across TVs, PCs, phones, and robots.

It’s all about speed: Nvidia (NVDA) pushed up the launch schedule for its new Vera Rubin AI computing platform by several months from late 2026 to the middle of 2026. Vera Rubin promises about 10x higher throughput and 10x lower token cost than the prior Grace Blackwell platform. The chip now looks be available to customers in the second half of 2026. Cloud partners like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and CoreWeave planning Rubin-based instances starting in that second half 2026 window.

Another short seller, Jim Chanos, is flagging the risks in AI debt

Another short seller, Jim Chanos, is flagging the risks in AI debt

I take everything from both extreme speculative bulls and extreme negative bears with a grain–or more–of salt. Members of each camp talk their own positions and certainly aren’t above cherry-picking facts to buttress their own views.
But I do take shorts like Jim Chanos very seriously. In his long career on the short side of the market Chanos has proven himself to be a well-informed analyst of company weaknesses and corner-cutting. So I think it’s very important to listen when he has joined his voice to those pointing to serious accounting problems at AI companies and the possibility that those accounting problems could lead some of the huge amount of debt that AI companies have issued this year to blow up. Chanos and other short sellers like Michael Burry have focused on the use of asset backed debt to pay for the huge build out in AI data centers. The problem, these shorts say, is that many of these new AI companies–particularly in the part of AI called “neoclouds–have used assets in the form of Nvidia (NVDA) chips to secure large loans to buy more AI chips to scale up their operations. But, and this is the crux of the shortsellers’ case, they are using unrealistically long schedules to depreciate the value of these assets–5 or 6 years when the life of these technology assets is more like 2 to 3 years.

I think it’s time to give Nvidia a rest–selling my position tomorrow

Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…

Nvidia (NVDA) will report earnings Wednesday November 19, for the quarter that ended on October 25. According to Zacks Investment Research, based on 13 analysts’ forecasts, the consensus EPS forecast for the quarter is $1.17. The reported EPS for the same quarter last year was $0.78. Visible Alpha reports slightly different estimates. Nvidia is expected to report adjusted earnings per share of $1.26 on revenue of $55.28 billion, each up more than 55% from the same time a year ago. Data center revenue, the chips Nvidia sells that other companies buy to train and run a variety of AI models, is expected to grow 61% and make up $49.53 billion of Nvidia’s revenue. I expect the earnings report to move the market. How could it not? It’s almost as if the financial market’s stage director had cleared the boards for Nvidia’s report.

I think it’s time to give Nvidia a rest–selling my position tomorrow

Nvidia drops 3.03% after earnings as market decides 56% data center growth isn’t good enough

Nvidia’s basic problem is that investor expectations are so high that the company struggles to meet them. In the quarter ended on July 27, results released today after the close of trading, Nvidia said it earned an adjusted $1.05 per share on $46.74 billion in revenue. Which disappointed the market. The stock fell 3.03% in after-hours trading.