NVIDIA (NVDA) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
NVIDIA's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
NVDA closed at $214.72 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +3.5% from its 50-day average and +9.9% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -2.2%, trailing SPY by 5.3%. It remains 9.2% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +3.5% from its 50-day average and +9.9% from its 200-day average. Over three months, NVDA returned -2.2% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +3.5%
- vs 200-day
- +9.9%
- From 52W high
- -9.2%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
NVDA appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 47 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 30 call-side, 18 put-side and 1 on both lists. The latest session placed its call-side signature #13. Its larger composite score was 1.42, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | #13 | — |
| 2026-08-19 | #2 | — |
| 2026-08-18 | #4 | — |
| 2026-08-14 | #18 | — |
| 2026-08-13 | #19 | — |
| 2026-08-12 | — | #8 |
| 2026-08-11 | #25 | #24 |
| 2026-08-10 | #2 | — |
| 2026-08-07 | — | #15 |
| 2026-08-06 | #6 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.138 calls, 0.061 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-08-10Aug 26: Nvidia reports Q2 fiscal-2027 results (quarter ended Jul 26, 2026), confirmed on its investor calendar — the dominant near-dated options event. On Aug 10 itself shares fell ~2.9% as Nvidia announced AI-infrastructure financing platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR (over $500B of third-party capital, final agreements pending), and The Information reported Microsoft plans to unveil its next-generation Maia 300 accelerator in September.
Nvidia is the leading AI accelerator maker. Call buying two weeks ahead of a confirmed earnings date on a down tape reads as earnings positioning or dip-buying, not reaction to fresh positive news — the market read Aug 10's items (vendor-organized customer financing, a top customer's in-house chip roadmap) as concerns. Watch the Aug 26 print and execution of the announced financing platforms.
Source: NVIDIA newsroom, Aug 10 ↗Curated-manager ownership
3 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long NVIDIA position in their latest filing, worth $2.8B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Altimeter Capital Brad Gerstner · NVDA | $1.9B | 19.16% | 9.41M | +0.8% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Appaloosa Management David Tepper · NVDA | $305M | 3.95% | 1.52M | +3.6% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · NVDA | $593M | 0.89% | 2.97M | +1.6% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open NVDA Financials →How NVDA trades — the working manual
NVIDIA is classified by the SEC in Semiconductors & Related Devices. For the stock, the recurring questions are whether accelerated-computing demand is still converting into revenue and cash flow, whether margins can absorb the cost of each product transition, and whether the market price is already discounting more growth than the filings can verify.
What can move the tape
- 01Data-center demand, product-cycle execution and the size and timing of customer infrastructure spending.
- 02Revenue growth, gross margin and free-cash-flow conversion in NVIDIA's own fiscal calendar.
- 03Relative strength versus the broad market: a strong business can still be a weak stock when expectations reset.
- 04Options positioning around earnings, product announcements and policy-sensitive semiconductor headlines.
What can fool the read
- 01Customer concentration and the build-out of in-house accelerators can change the durability of demand.
- 02Export controls and other policy constraints can alter the addressable market or product mix.
- 03A high-volatility stock can remain above long-term trend while still experiencing deep drawdowns.
- 0413F holdings are delayed snapshots, and unusual-options signatures do not reveal who bought or sold the contracts.
No NVDA flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. That means no session cleared this project's anomaly threshold; it does not mean trading volume was literally constant.
Not published yet. The local archive has 0 reported NVDA events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-15 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
NVDA stock questions
Is NVDA stock in an uptrend?+
NVDA is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +3.5% from its 50-day average and +9.9% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in NVDA mean?+
NVIDIA's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the NVDA 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are NVDA's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated NVDA Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no NVDA earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.