It’s been a really interesting year in the stock market so far in 2025. At one point, the S&P 500 had dropped as low as 15% while the Nasdaq Composite cratered by 21%.
While news of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek and mixed economic indicators have made some impacts on the capital markets this year, I think the biggest contributors to the volatility (by far!) are the new tariff policies from the Trump administration. Although the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have recovered from their low points, both indexes still feature negative returns on the year — with some of the biggest laggards being megacap technology stocks.
As I write this, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has lost nearly $1 trillion in market value so far in 2025. Indeed, such a sell-off would suggest that investors have soured on the formerly red-hot semiconductor darling. With its fiscal first-quarter earnings report scheduled for May 28, is now a good time to buy the dip in Nvidia stock?