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Nvidia (NVDA) fell 4.40% to $212.21 on October 22, 2026, a drop 1.80 percentage points deeper than the Nasdaq Composite's.
Financial media tied the sell-off to resurfacing worries over AI spending and the cost of capital after Meta's quarterly results, with chipmakers led lower by AMD.
The close left Nvidia 12.80% below its 52-week high, with volume 19.09% above its average.
Gotrade News - Nvidia (NVDA) shares fell 4.40% to close at $212.21 on Thursday, October 22, 2026, as a broad sell-off in chip stocks pulled the Nasdaq lower. The day's Nvidia stock news came from the wider market rather than the company: financial media tied the drop to resurfacing worries over AI spending and the cost of capital after Meta's quarterly results.
NVDA Trading Data
Data
Value
Closing price
$212.21
Change
-$9.76 (-4.40%)
Previous close
$221.97
Open
$217.13
Day range
$211.26 to $218.88
Volume
125.4 million shares
30-day average volume
105.3 million shares
52-week range
$164.27 to $243.37
Market cap
$5.11 trillion
Regular-session close on Thursday, October 22, 2026, 4:00 p.m. New York time. Stock prices: Yahoo Finance, cross-checked against the closing price on Nasdaq.com. Volume and 30-day average volume: Nasdaq.com. 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 $217.13, below Wednesday's close, and never traded above $218.88. It finished near the bottom of its range, just $0.95 above the session low. Volume ran 19.09% above its average.
The decline was steeper than the broader market's. The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.60% to 26,008.86 and the S&P 500 lost 1.21% to 7,663.43, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 0.02% to 52,867.98. Nvidia's fall was 1.80 percentage points deeper than the Nasdaq's.
Other chipmakers took heavier losses. AMD (AMD) fell 8.10%, Intel dropped 8.04% and Micron (MU) lost 6.26%, while TSMC and Broadcom slipped 4.52% and 4.31%. Outside chips, Meta Platforms (META) sank 6.98%, while Apple gained 1.23%.
The close left Nvidia 12.80% below its 52-week high and 29.18% above its 52-week low.
Why Nvidia Stock Fell
Financial media did not point to an Nvidia-specific trigger for Thursday's drop; the stock fell with a sector-wide sell-off. According to Yahoo Finance, worries over AI spending and the cost of capital resurfaced on October 22, sending semiconductor and hyperscaler shares lower, while Meta fell after its quarterly results and a 2-for-1 stock split announcement.
The report said Lam Research fell as much as 10% after management cited "supply chain constraints" heading into 2027. It also said oil rose after a report of possible US and Israeli attacks on Iran following the November midterm elections.
Investors moved into bonds, per Yahoo Finance, which noted that concerns over a slowdown in AI infrastructure build-outs overshadowed inflation fears from higher oil prices. On October 22, the 10-year Treasury yield fell 19.3 basis points to 4.95%, while front-month Brent crude futures settled at $113.17 a barrel and front-month WTI crude futures settled at $99.47 a barrel.
NVDA Stock Analysis: Supporting Factors and Risks
Supporting Factors
On October 21 in Berlin, CEO Jensen Huang outlined the DSX POD, a reference design for complete Vera Rubin AI factories built in modular containers, which Nvidia says can be running in as little as 14 days versus about six months for a typical deployment, according to TheStreet.
TheStreet reported that 17 partners, including Dell, HPE, Schneider Electric and Vertiv, are targeting worldwide deliveries of the design in early 2027.
TheStreet also reported a German AI partnership with Nvidia and plans by Japan's Noetra consortium for an AI factory with about 27,500 Rubin GPUs.
Nvidia's second-quarter revenue more than doubled year over year, which TheStreet said helped the stock hold up better than most chip names in the prior week's AI sell-off.
Risks
Worries over AI spending and the cost of capital, which Yahoo Finance said hit semiconductor and hyperscaler shares on October 22, remain a pressure point for AI chip stocks.
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress warned that supply will remain a bottleneck through at least fiscal 2028, per TheStreet.
Power is a constraint for customers: TheStreet cited an estimate from energy firm Currence that 30% to 50% of large data center capacity expected online in 2026 will be delayed.
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