Shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) spiked Tuesday. The company's stock gained 8.9% as of market close. The move up comes as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite gained 0.9% and 2%, respectively. Nvidia's stock felt some relief after a major sell-off on Monday that was spurred by a new AI entrant,

Since the start of 2023, Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has gained an astronomical 906% as of the time of writing. It's also right around its all-time high right now, but these two facts may scare some investors off. The common thought is, "Nvidia has risen so much already; how can it increase more?"

Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) tumbled Monday after the release of a sophisticated artificial intelligence model from a Chinese startup prompted a reckoning on Wall Street regarding AI spending. Chinese company DeepSeek last week released R1,