NVIDIA (NVDA) Stock Dropped, So What Is Driving Attention Now? Sasha Jovanovic Wed, November 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM EST 5 min read NVDA +3.97% Trade NVIDIA on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
NVIDIA (NVDA) is back in the spotlight after being named as a defendant in a new securities class action, Kistenmacher v. NVIDIA Corporation, filed in the Northern District of California and covering trades from October 2025 to early November 2026.
The lawsuit alleges violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5, targeting both the company and certain senior executives. For shareholders, it lands on top of existing governance headlines and raises practical questions about disclosure practices, potential damages and how much management time could be pulled toward legal defense.
At the same time, the stock has already had a rough stretch. NVIDIA shares are down about 5% over the past day, 16% over the past week and roughly 25% over the past month, with the past 3 months showing a similar decline. Over one year, the total return is lower by about 13%, even though the 3 year and 5 year total returns remain very large multiples of the starting value.
Those drawdowns come despite sizeable reported scale. NVIDIA's latest annual figures show revenue of US$302.97b and net income of US$192.88b, driven predominantly by its Compute & Networking segment at US$275.41b, with Graphics contributing US$27.56b. The business is tightly linked to AI and accelerated computing, and management reports annual revenue growth of about 29% with net income growth of roughly 27%.
Legal risk now sits alongside that operating profile. The Kistenmacher complaint seeks to recover alleged investor losses, though at this stage it is just that, an allegation filed in court, with a lead plaintiff deadline in early January 2027. Securities suits of this type often run for years and can end in dismissals, settlements or judgments, so the ultimate financial impact is uncertain until motions and evidence start to clarify the record.
The sharp drawdown in NVIDIA's share price over the past month has largely tracked a reset in sentiment around governance, China exposure and AI data center spending. At the same time, new alliances with partners like Commvault, Box and SK Telecom are tying the business more tightly to AI infrastructure projects worldwide.
Put simply, momentum has faded in the short term, with the 30 day share price return down about 25%, while the 5 year total shareholder return remains very large relative to the starting point.
Recent ETF flows underline that split view. Some large funds have trimmed NVIDIA holdings, while others have added exposure after the sell off. This suggests investors are recalibrating how much weight to put on legal and leadership risk versus the company's existing AI footprint.
At a share price of about US$168.89, that reassessment is happening against a backdrop of ongoing collaborations in AI security, sovereign AI projects and data governance. The current volatility therefore appears more tied to perceived changes in risk than to any single contract win or loss.
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NVIDIA is still delivering huge AI infrastructure revenue and earnings today. After a 25% slide and fresh legal and governance clouds, the harder question is whether that strength is already fully priced in.
Against a last close of $168.89, the leading narrative pegs NVIDIA's fair value at $280, implying a sizeable gap between price and what that view considers justified future cash flows, using a 9.47% discount rate.
According to oscargarcia, an investor in the Simply Wall St Community who wrote the narrative, the investment case starts with how deeply NVIDIA is embedded in AI infrastructure and how that position shapes expectations for future earnings power.
NVIDIA is not just a chipmaker. It is the platform that powers modern AI.
Data Center Revenue: Now >70% of total revenue and growing like a caffeinated cheetah.
GPUs (H100, A100, B100 coming): The gold standard for training LLMs like GPT, Gemini, Claude, and more.
CUDA Ecosystem: Proprietary software stack that locks in developers. Think of it like Apple's App Store but for AI researchers.
NVLink, DGX Systems, and NVDA Networking (Mellanox): They are not just selling chips, they are selling the whole AI infrastructure.
See why 348 investors see NVIDIA as 40% undervalued.
Result: Fair Value of $280 (UNDERVALUED)
Still, shifts in US China export rules, or a sharp pullback in large cloud customer orders, could quickly challenge this undervalued NVIDIA narrative.
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