Nvidia in 2025
There are thousands of different stocks out there, but today I want to talk about one in particular: Nvidia, or NVDA. Nvidia is an American technology company known for designing and manufacturing graphic processing units also known as chips or GPUs. Nvidia is known to have a massive impact on AI because the chips being manufactured help with AI advancements. Looking at the Nvidia stock can usually tell you whether or not people are excited about AI and its potential.
This year has been a rollercoaster for the stock, so I’m going to walk through when it went up, when it went down, and the reasons behind those moves. To understand all this you first have to know what Nvidia is.
Nvidia kicked off 2025 at around $140 a share. Just a week later, it spiked to an all-time high of $153 on January 7th, but that same day it crashed right back down to $140. From there, things got worse. On January 27th, the stock dropped a massive 17% in a single day. The selloff was triggered by a Chinese company called DeepSeek, which had just unveiled a super cheap large language model. Investors panicked because it looked like DeepSeek would be a competitor to Nvidia.
The drop didn’t stop there. On April 4th, Nvidia closed at $94, its lowest point of the year. Global events played a big role here. The wars in Israel and Ukraine shook markets, and on top of that, tariffs kept coming and going. Nobody knew if they were going to rise, get rolled back, or change again, and that uncertainty kept pressure on stocks, especially tech stocks like Nvidia.
Just a few days later, on April 7th, Nvidia dropped even further to $86. The steady decline scared investors, and many took all their money out of the stock because of the fear that the stock would just keep falling. But then things started to turn around. The White House paused most new tariffs, and they slowly became more flexible with chip exports, and even scaled some tariffs back. That gave Nvidia some breathing room, and its stock price slowly started to recover.
Between April 21st and early May, Nvidia went from $98 to over $130 which was a big relief to many investors. Then on May 28th, the company reported that AI demand was still exploding. That was enough to pull more buyers back in, and momentum carried the stock even higher. By June 27th, it hit another record high of $158. After that, the stock dropped off a bit, moving slowly up and down. By the end of June, on the 30th, it closed at around $157.
So, to sum it all up: Nvidia started the year at $140, took some serious ups and downs from global news, wars, and tariffs, and dropped to the mid $80s. But a few months later, it bounced back and hit new all time highs. The big takeaway here is that outside events such as the wars, trade policy, government decisions can have a huge impact on the stock market. If you pay attention to these factors, you can time your buys and sells better. That’s a big part of being a good trader and you can use this to your advantage.
