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But why should a couple of good years get a company into trouble? It is inevitable that sales can not always stay as high.

I could understand if NVidia would have done some kind of investment that was only sustainable if the good times would continue the same way for a while.

But it seems to me they will just continue to make good graphics cards, as they did before. So why should they be in trouble?

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I'm not sure Nvidia is in trouble. Investors who overestimated their future performance might be.

> I'm not sure Nvidia is in trouble. Investors who overestimated their future performance.

The problem is that management did not do enough (as far as investors were concerned) to temper market expectations. It may have been they truly did not know who was buying their product, and they believed most of their clients were coming from ML and gaming, when instead it was heavy, heavy crypto.

Other than that, as the article mentions, it was trade tensions that turned the quarter miss into a perfect storm for a sell-off.

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