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Nvidia just formed a new club. The chip designer is 1 of 1 with a $4 trillion market cap after trading above $162.53 this morning for the first time ever to reach that milestone.

“This is a historical moment for Nvidia, the tech space flexing its muscles, and speaks to the AI Revolution hitting its next stage of growth led by the one chip fueling AI... Nvidia,” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives wrote. “There is one company in the world that is the foundation for the AI Revolution and that is Nvidia with the Godfather of AI Jensen having the best perch and vantage point to discuss overall enterprise AI demand and the appetite for Nvidia’s AI chips looking forward.”

Now, share repurchases often make it a little difficult to say whether or not a company has conclusively breached a market cap threshold, since those numbers get reported in quarterly filings with a significant lag. Nvidia bought back a little over 126 million shares in the three months ending April 27, leaving it with 24.611 billion shares outstanding.

This time, based on its peak price this morning of $164.42, it’s a safe bet that milestone has indeed been achieved, unless management repurchased more than 283 million shares since late April.

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SpaceX gets a wave of bullish ratings from Wall Street analysts

SpaceX received more than a dozen positive analyst calls on Tuesday — including from major Wall Street banks — as they initiate coverage on Elon Musk’s space and AI company.

SpaceX went public on June 12 at a $2.2 trillion valuation, the largest debut in history. While the company hasn’t yet posted a profit, it seems to have convinced Wall Street that it will get there and grow its valuation on the way.

Of the at least 17 analysts that gave a rating on Tuesday, all but one gave it a “buy” or “outperform” rating. MoffettNathanson was "neutral."

The ratings come as SpaceX joined the Nasdaq 100 index, a benchmark tech-heavy basket of companies that underpins millions of portfolios. The inclusion adds built-in demand for the stock from index funds and ETFs.

Still, SpaceX fell more than 5% on Tuesday amid a broader sell-off, and is currently effectively flat from its opening price of $150 a share.

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