DeepSeek’s menace resulted in a sharp drop in NVIDIA Corporation’s NVDA stock last month. Although most of the losses have since recovered, the stock is now awaiting the fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter and full-year results announcement on Feb.

Nvidia had a rocky start to the year. That has done little to dull its popularity among individual investors, many of whom are positioning for the shares to rally after Wednesday’s earnings report.The graphics-chip maker lost nearly $600 billion in market value in a single session in late January when news of a lower-cost artificial-intelligence model from Chinese company DeepSeek temporarily rattled investors’ confidence in the AI trade.