Shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) were sinking Wednesday. The company's stock fell 6.2% as of 2:20 p.m. ET, but lost as much as 6.9% earlier in the day. The move comes as the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) lost 0.

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?"

Nvidia stock (NVDA) rose modestly early Tuesday. That put the shares on course to recoup a little bit of the ground lost in the previous session's 17% crash, which was fueled by concerns about China's DeepSeek.

Analysts see this as an opportunity to buy NVDA shares as they believe the market has overreacted to the Chinese AI model. Bofa analysts believe this worry is overstated. Whereas, Wedbush analyst, Dan Ives called it a buying opportunity for American tech stocks. He wrote in a post on X:

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has been getting crushed today and has plunged over 17.4% in Monday trading. This is the biggest single-day drop for NVDA since the tech selloff began in August. Why? DeepSeek.

Nvidia faces pressure from DeepSeek's impact on AI costs. Learn why NVDA stock’s high-margin business model may be vulnerable to these market shifts.

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Nvidia and other U.S. tech stocks are steadying a day after tumbling on doubts about whether the artificial-intelligence frenzy really needs all the dollars being poured into it. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher in early trading Tuesday.