Nvidia stock is in a “soul-searching” moment.

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Investors’ insatiable appetite for everything related to Nvidia (NVDA) may be Cool down a little Lately, but the cold is temporary and the holiday itself has only just begun, according to one Wall Street semiconductor analyst.

“I think some of these (issues) represent growing pains,” the Bank of America analyst said. Vivek Arya said Yahoo Finance’s executive editor Brian Susie During an episode of Yahoo Finance Open the bid Podcast (video above, listen below).

Shares of Market Habibi and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 8.5% in the past month. The Dow Jones fell modestly last month, while the S&P 500 gained 0.5%.

“Look at any of these great big stocks whatever they are,” Arya added. “Every single one of them has had this moment of soul-searching periodically.

The soul searching for Nvidia stock, according to Arya, is related to several factors, including execution issues while trying to push through groundbreaking innovation and Concerns about exposure to China before Potential tariffs from a returning President Trump.

“Some of these forces are company-specific, some are market forces,” Arya said of the issues.

Arya explained that the switch to Nvidia’s Blackwell AI chip has not been smooth, which has bulls concerned.

“The last two quarters have not been clean because they are going through growing pains from one generation of product to a new generation,” Arya said.

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Blackwell, which was introduced in March at the company’s annual GPU conference, has been hailed as Nvidia’s most powerful and innovative offering. But presenting the completed idea in product form to the masses proved more difficult.

“Since last March, what we’ve seen are implementation issues that keep it out of customers’ hands,” he said.

Nvidia’s issues with mask and system-level configurations may be resolved, but “we now have a two-quarter period where it’s completely inappropriate for Nvidia to have these question marks and where estimates haven’t gone up the way they were supposed to go up.” Arya.

However, there are plenty of positives for Nvidia stock in the long term, Arya says. Wall Street would more broadly agree – Yahoo Finance data shows 94% of sell-side analysts rate Nvidia stock as a buy or strong buy.

All eyes remain on the company as it takes bigger steps toward unleashing Blackwell on a market hungry for its offerings. Arya believes Blackwell will generate billions in sales in 2025. The stock could also see a near-term catalyst as founder and CEO of Nvidia. Jensen Huang He takes the stage as a keynote speaker at CES 2025.

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