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Summary
Nvidia (NVDA) rose 0.97% to $228.52 on October 13, 2026, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.15%.
No source tied the gain to a specific cause; the day's company headline was a reported minority stake in French firm Doctolib.
Chip stocks were mixed, with AMD up 1.90% and Micron down 3.62%.
Gotrade News - Nvidia (NVDA) closed at $228.52 on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, up $2.20 or 0.97%, in a session where the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.15%.
The day's main Nvidia stock news was a report that the company agreed to buy a minority stake in French healthcare software firm Doctolib, though no source tied the gain directly to that deal.
NVDA Trading Data
Data
Value
Closing price
$228.52
Change
+$2.20 (+0.97%)
Previous close
$226.32
Open
$224.34
Day range
$223.06 to $228.64
Volume
83.8 million shares
30-day average volume
110.3 million shares
52-week range
$164.27 to $243.37
Market cap
$5.45 trillion
Regular-session close on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 4:00 p.m. New York time. Stock prices: Yahoo Finance, cross-checked against Nasdaq's official close. Indices, the 10-year Treasury yield and oil (Brent and WTI front-month futures): Yahoo Finance daily closes for the same date.
Nvidia opened at $224.34, dipped to a low of $223.06 and then climbed for most of the day, closing $5.46 above that low and just under the session high of $228.64. Volume was lighter than usual at 83.8 million shares, 24.00% below the 110.3 million share average.
The stock beat the Nasdaq Composite by 1.12 percentage points, while the S&P 500 ended nearly flat at 7,805.45 (down 0.02%) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.35% to 51,670.10. The US 10-year Treasury yield eased 2.3 basis points to 5.22%.
Chip stocks split. AMD (AMD) rose 1.90%, Intel gained 1.44% and TSMC (TSM) added 0.17%, while Micron (MU) dropped 3.62% and ASML lost 1.86%. Nvidia now sits 6.10% below its 52-week high of $243.37 and 39.11% above its 52-week low of $164.27.
Why Nvidia Stock Rose
No fetched source names a company-specific reason for Tuesday's gain, so the move is best read against the indices and a mixed chip group. The most notable company headline of the day was about Nvidia's investments in Europe.
According to GuruFocus, Nvidia agreed to buy a minority stake in Doctolib, citing a Reuters report dated October 13. Doctolib said it is "working with Nvidia to build new AI solutions." The size of the deal was not disclosed. GuruFocus also reported that Genesis AI named Nvidia a strategic investor and described the deals as small next to Nvidia's chip business, aimed at early positions in sectors that may later need more computing power.
Separately, as reported by 24/7 Wall St., Nvidia made up 17.55% of the VanEck Semiconductor ETF as of its June 30, 2026 filing, roughly double the next-largest holding, TSMC, at 9.29%.
NVDA Stock Analysis: Supporting Factors and Risks
Supporting Factors
Per Motley Fool, fiscal second-quarter revenue (quarter ended July 26) was $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, with net income up 126%.
Motley Fool reports that Nvidia holds over 80% of the data center chip market, and that CFO Colette Kress estimated hyperscaler capital spending at "nearly $800 billion in 2026."
GuruFocus says the European stakes extend Nvidia's ecosystem beyond data centers into potential future AI customers.
Risks
Motley Fool names the durability of AI demand as the main risk, noting that how long the AI boom lasts is unknown.
Concentration cuts both ways: with Nvidia at 17.55% of the VanEck fund, 24/7 Wall St. notes that holders of that ETF carry heavy exposure to one company's results.
Not every chip name rose: Micron's 3.62% drop shows the group did not move as one in this session.
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