The 1 Surprising Reason Nvidia Stock Just Smashed All-Time Highs

Nvidia's stock just ripped to unprecedented heights—and the catalyst isn't what Wall Street expected.

Behind the Surge

While analysts buzzed about gaming and data centers, one overlooked driver sent shares into the stratosphere. No fluffy projections—just hard momentum and market-defying performance.

Not the usual hype cycle. This move's got teeth.

Sure, traders will call it genius—right up until the next 'unexpected' correction. Classic finance: celebrate the rally, ignore the reckoning.

News from Oracle is fueling Nvidia's stock price

Amazingly, no company with a market cap north of $500 billion has ever seen its stock price rise by more than 30% in a single trading day. But that's exactly what happened this week with(ORCL -4.79%) after the company announced blockbuster earnings with incredibly optimistic forecasts for AI infrastructure demand.

According to Oracle's CEO, the firm inked four mega contracts in the first quarter, bringing its backlog to more than $450 billion -- four times what it was just a year ago. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure -- a division directly exposed to rising AI spending -- is expected to grow revenue by 77% to $18 billion from the previous year. Most impressively, that division is expected to reach $144 billion in revenue by 2030.

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The news is clear for Nvidia investors: Spending on AI technologies continues to grow rapidly industrywide. Oracle's rosy long-term forecast also adds huge momentum for Nvidia's growth prospects considering Nvidia makes and sells the top-rated GPUs: critical components that power nearly every AI process. Good news for Oracle on this front should also be good news for Nvidia, hence Nvidia's rising share price this week.