BofA/Merrill analyst Vivek Arya reiterates a Buy rating, $340 price target and top sector pick on Nvidia. The analyst believes Street's mixed initial reaction to its new Turing game card launch could prove short-sighted. Games should start taking adequate advantage of Turing's key neural net and ray tracing features within the next three months, Arya contends, adding that even if gamers do not buy Turing, Nvidia's other high-end Pascal cards are now selling at attractive prices and are strongly ASP and margin accretive. Overall, the analyst sees Street's 4%-5% quarter over quarter sales growth expectations for Q3 and Q4 as achievable from a combination of gaming and data center sales.

Notable profits for the buyer who lifted the $28.91 offer for 2,012 NVIDIA (NVDA) May-24 820 calls yesterday at 09:39ET when underlying shares were trading at $793.05. Shares closed at $826.32, and the calls at $41.12 for a mark-to-market profit of 42%, or $2457K, on the $5816K outlay.

As previously reported, Erste Group downgraded AMD (AMD) to Hold from Buy. The valuation is "significantly higher than the P/E ratio of the peer group," as well as compared to "much stronger competitor" Nvidia (NVDA), the analyst tells investors. The firm adds that upside potential for AMD "appears limited at present."

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Wednesday's total option volume of 42.3 million contracts resulted in net open interest growth of 4.78 million calls and 3.88 million puts. Tesla (TSLA), Meta Platforms (Facebook) (META), Ford (F) and NVIDIA (NVDA) saw the greatest growth. Top five new positions opened include 42k Tesla (TSLA) Aug-24 185 calls, 35k Taiwan Semi (TSM) Aug-24 110 calls, 30k Capri Holdings (CPRI) May-24 35 calls, 29k Ford (F) 4/26 weekly 13.5 calls and 26k Tesla (TSLA) 5/3 weekly 75 puts.

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Microsoft (MSFT) is scheduled to report results of the third quarter of its fiscal year 2024 after the market close on Thursday, April 25, with a conference call scheduled for 5:30 pm ET. What to watch... To see the rest of the story go to thefly.com. See Story Here