BofA Merrill Lynch analyst Vivek Arya raised his price target on Nvidia shares to $250 from $225 as he believes the company's data center growth will soon benefit from "the next-big AI landmark," namely natural language processing, or "conversational AI." The ability to accurately listen, understand, speak and contextualize human speech needs compute requirements 100 times that of today's dominant image/video classifier AI machines, said Arya, who sees Nvidia being "in prime position" to benefit from this shift given its portfolio of hardware and software and its developer ecosystem. Arya keeps a Buy rating on Nvidia, which he continues to identify as his top large-cap pick.

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