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highplainsdem

(59,050 posts)
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 01:25 PM 8 hrs ago

Peter Thiel Is Reportedly Dumping Nvidia Stock Amid AI Bubble Jitters

Last edited Mon Nov 17, 2025, 03:17 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: Gizmodo

According to regulatory filings, the billionaire's hedge fund, Thiel Macro, has offloaded its entire stake in Nvidia. The firm has sold 537,742 shares in its third quarter, which would have been worth around $100 million, according to Reuters estimates.

There are many reasons why investors might decide to sell off their stake in a company, and not all of those reasons are worth giant alarm bells. But it does pique interest when those stakes belong to the world's most valuable company, and the decision comes mere days after another high-profile investor selloff.

Just last week, prominent Japanese investor SoftBank shared that it sold its entire stake in the chipmaker. The firm said that it raked in $5.83 billion from the sale of 32.1 million Nvidia shares in October. The sale was apparently made to fund a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, on top of the billions the firm has already invested in the tech giant. SoftBank and OpenAI are also partners under the Trump-backed data center build-out plan known as Stargate.

Nvidia is considered the ultimate AI darling. It's a company that hit $5 trillion market value by riding the AI wave, and it holds a central position in the industry as the primary global supplier of highly coveted AI chips. As a result, any perceived distrust in Nvidia's trajectory is taken as a negative sign for the AI industry overall.

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Read more: https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-is-reportedly-dumping-nvidia-stock-amid-ai-bubble-jitters-2000686918



From Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/peter-thiels-fund-offloaded-nvidia-stake-third-quarter-filing-shows-2025-11-17/

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel's hedge fund has sold off its entire stake in Nvidia (NVDA.O) during the third quarter, a regulatory filing showed, intensifying worries of an artificial intelligence bubble.

The fund, Thiel Macro, sold around 537,742 shares in the AI chip frontrunner in the quarter, the filing showed on Friday. The stake would have been worth around $100 million, as of the company's closing price on September 30.

Thiel's selloff, coupled with SoftBank's (9984.T) sale of its own Nvidia holdings last week, has fueled Wall Street's angst that the frenzy driving soaring tech valuations may have peaked, putting at risk the trillions of dollars committed to AI advancement.

Investors and analysts will be looking to Nvidia's third-quarter results on Wednesday to dispel worries of a bubble as the world's most valuable company is considered a bellwether for AI demand due to its coveted chips being used in massive data centers and servers.

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To make this very clear - news of Thiel dumping Nvidia stock didn't break till today, with reporting about the filing on Friday. It's getting extra attention because of what Softbank did last week.
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Peter Thiel Is Reportedly Dumping Nvidia Stock Amid AI Bubble Jitters (Original Post) highplainsdem 8 hrs ago OP
He also dumped a large portion of his Tesla holdings Miguelito Loveless 8 hrs ago #1
P/E ratios above 30 are not sustainable. Dawson Leery 8 hrs ago #2
NVDA is at 53 while earnings grow 120% YoY GreatGazoo 4 hrs ago #9
Their stock price is at all time highs, so it is a good time to sell high IronLionZion 7 hrs ago #3
The reporting on this gets the timeline wrong. onenote 6 hrs ago #4
The timeline's clear from the article, since they're clear that what Thiel did was in the third quarter. But highplainsdem 6 hrs ago #5
Good catch GreatGazoo 5 hrs ago #7
Peter Thiel needs to go away - quickly. Marie Marie 5 hrs ago #6
Would love to see him lose his ass orangecrush 5 hrs ago #8

Miguelito Loveless

(5,357 posts)
1. He also dumped a large portion of his Tesla holdings
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 01:28 PM
8 hrs ago

So, he's not too optimistic about Tesla either.

GreatGazoo

(4,311 posts)
9. NVDA is at 53 while earnings grow 120% YoY
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 04:40 PM
4 hrs ago

So in one year the current price should be equal to about 27 P/E.

AI is an arms race and though some, perhaps many, companies will not be among the winners it is hard to imagine a scenario where Nvidia is allowed to lose. Vertical integration is underway and Nvidia is getting baked in. The current bubble panic helps Nvidia because it cuts off emerging competitors before they can threaten Nvidia's CUDA dominance.

IronLionZion

(50,353 posts)
3. Their stock price is at all time highs, so it is a good time to sell high
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 01:39 PM
7 hrs ago

The market may have already hit peak demand for data centers or will very soon. Lots of articles recently on the AI bubble so some are expecting it to pop sooner or later.

onenote

(45,851 posts)
4. The reporting on this gets the timeline wrong.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 02:39 PM
6 hrs ago

This and other stories suggest that Thiel is following Softbank in selling off Nvidia ( "Peter Thiel is the latest investor to sell off Nividia shares" ). However, Thiel's sale occurred during the third quarter of the year -- sometime between July 1 and September 30. Softbank's sale occurred in October.

Softbank sale: https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/11/15/why-did-softbank-just-sell-its-entire-nvidia-stake/

Thiel sale: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/peter-thiels-fund-offloaded-nvidia-stake-third-quarter-filing-shows-2025-11-17/

highplainsdem

(59,050 posts)
5. The timeline's clear from the article, since they're clear that what Thiel did was in the third quarter. But
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 03:07 PM
6 hrs ago

there is some sloppy writing.

Peter Thiel is the latest investor to sell off Nvidia shares.

should have been

Peter Thiel is the latest investor to make news for selling off Nvidia shares.

And

the decision comes mere days after another high-profile investor selloff.

should have been

news of the decision comes mere days after another high-profile investor selloff.

I couldn't begin to keep track of how often I've seen badly written stories and headlines.

I'm going to edit the comment section of the OP to make this clearer, and include the Reuters story.

The news of Thiel selling Nvidia stock did break just today, and that news following the news about Softbank last week is what's making headlines.

GreatGazoo

(4,311 posts)
7. Good catch
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 04:15 PM
5 hrs ago

Thiel sold for no more than $182. Missing the peak of $207. SoftBank did better but bought into Open AI (!) whoops.

I remain suspicious of the narrative. They were pushing Burry last week as some kind of genius because he got 2008 correct while ignoring that Burry went bust on Oct 27th because he bet against NVDA. This stuff is being put out by the same media that pretends Jim Cramer is guru and they are all singing from the same hymn book.

The contrarian view is that fund managers have $6 trillion sitting on the sidelines and want to spook retail investors before the next rally. In the contrarian view this pullback has more to do with early loss harvesting and the decreased likelihood of a December rate cut.

I can see going risk off for some of the speculative AI stocks, like quantum, but betting against NVDA makes no sense to me. They are the best positioned and they already weathered potential bubble pops like Deep Seek.

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