Nvidia invested $30 billion in OpenAI's $110 billion funding round, alongside Amazon and SoftBank.
Reddit users debated whether Nvidia's growth rate makes it a value stock, with revenue up 65% over the past 12 months.
Despite strong earnings, Nvidia's stock fell 5% this week amid broader AI anxiety and a rotation into value sectors.
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OpenAI's Record Raise Dominates the Conversation
The biggest story of the day on r/stocks was OpenAI's $110 billion funding round, the largest private financing in history. The round valued OpenAI at $730 billion pre-money, a sharp increase from its $500 billion valuation just months earlier. Nvidia's $30 billion contribution signals the chipmaker's deepening strategic bet on AI infrastructure, with the company now both a key hardware supplier and a major investor in the leading AI lab.
Reddit users noted that the scale of capital deployment — more than double OpenAI's previous record raise — underscores that hyperscale compute demand is still accelerating. One post on r/stocks highlighted that sustained AI capex at this level reinforces the long-term demand outlook for power generation and data center infrastructure, sectors that benefit from Nvidia's chip dominance.
Is Nvidia a Value Stock?
A separate highly-upvoted post on r/stocks argued that Nvidia now looks like a value stock despite its growth profile. The analysis pointed out that Nvidia is cheaper than roughly a third of S&P 500 stocks, yet its 65% revenue growth over the past 12 months ranks third-fastest in the index. By comparison, Palantir Technologies trades at roughly 98 times forward earnings, while Nvidia's multiple has compressed significantly.
The post generated 222 comments and 503 upvotes, with users debating whether the market is mispricing Nvidia's AI tailwinds or if the compression reflects genuine concerns about competition and capex sustainability.
Options Activity and Sentiment
On r/wallstreetbets, a trader shared a detailed options strategy involving 30 contracts of Nvidia puts expiring that day, with strikes between $180 and $195. Despite $42,000 in realized premiums, the trader reported $11,000 in net losses — but expressed confidence that Nvidia would bounce back. The post reflects the high conviction many retail traders still hold in Nvidia's long-term trajectory, even amid short-term volatility.
Overall sentiment across Reddit was moderately bullish at 0.40 on a scale from -1 to 1, with r/stocks showing the most positive sentiment at 0.51 and r/wallstreetbets slightly more cautious at 0.38.
Broader Market Context
The positive Reddit discussion around Nvidia's fundamentals and AI positioning came against a backdrop of broader market anxiety. A Benzinga report noted that despite Nvidia delivering strong earnings, its stock fell 5% this week as a research report warning of mass white-collar unemployment from AI disruption rattled markets. Financial stocks and private equity firms led the selloff, with energy and value stocks outperforming technology for the first time in years.
The divergence between Nvidia's strong business momentum and its recent stock price action was a recurring theme in Reddit comments, with many users viewing the pullback as a buying opportunity rather than a reason to exit.
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