NVIDIA (NVDA) — the peer cohort
As of 2026-10-19 — scores re-bake nightly. Cohort = shared Closelooknet index membership first, then sector. Diary readings, not advice.
NVIDIA ranks 6 of 16 in its cohort on the Closelooknet composite (65/100) — the cohort is led by Micron Technology at 74/100.
| Name | Composite | Momentum | Quality | Valuation | Signal | Off 52w high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA NVIDIA | 65 | 69 | 95 | 34 | info | 12% |
| MU Micron Technology | 74 | 72 | 95 | 60 | info | 30% |
| SNDK SanDisk | 70 | 60 | 94 | 50 | info | 44.8% |
| TSM TSMC | 70 | 67 | 87 | 65 | info | 15.4% |
| 000660.KS SK hynix | 69 | 35 | 94 | 79 | watch | 57.4% |
| 005930.KS Samsung Electronics | 67 | 43 | 75 | 80 | bull | 42.5% |
| ASML ASML | 63 | 60 | 88 | 26 | info | 17.9% |
| AMD AMD | 62 | 79 | 54 | 20 | bear | 19.7% |
| APH Amphenol | 62 | 68 | 73 | 32 | info | 11.8% |
| DELL Dell Technologies | 61 | 84 | 55 | 41 | bear | 20.5% |
| NDSN Nordson | 60 | 80 | 71 | 34 | neutral | 5% |
| ALAB Astera Labs | 59 | 60 | 77 | 7 | bear | 42.8% |
| CRDO Credo Technology | 59 | 43 | 83 | 13 | bear | 45% |
| TXN Texas Instruments | 59 | 63 | 82 | 28 | neutral | 17.2% |
| QCOM Qualcomm | 58 | 56 | 77 | 50 | bull | 33.5% |
| ARM ARM Holdings | 56 | 53 | 70 | 8 | info | 49.7% |
Scores are relative readings across the Closelooknet coverage universe — methodology in the company-scoring explainer. Signal lights come from the nightly signal board.
FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-19
Quick answers
Who are NVIDIA's peers in the Closelooknet universe?
The cohort is drawn from shared Closelooknet index membership first, then sector: Micron Technology (MU), SanDisk (SNDK), TSMC (TSM), SK hynix (000660.KS), Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), ASML (ASML), AMD (AMD), Amphenol (APH) and others.
How does NVDA score against its peers?
NVIDIA's composite reads 65/100, ranking 6 of 16 in its cohort as of 2026-10-19; the cohort's highest composite is Micron Technology at 74/100. Closelooknet scores are research diary readings, not ratings or advice.
Mentioned on Closelooknet
Where NVDA appears in the diary — 84 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.
Go deeper
- NVIDIA 2030The Operating System of Global Intelligence. Investment Thesis & Valuation Framework.Dossier · $49 one-time, or included in C+
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Long reads
- NVIDIA 2030
The market still prices NVIDIA as a chipmaker.
- Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030
On the physical AI platform layer, NVIDIA's Omniverse has become the de facto operating system for industrial digital twins — Siemens, Dassault Systèmes, Rockwell, Schaeffler, PepsiCo, and BMW all build on its libraries.
- Where to Invest in the AI Chip Constraint Chain
The market is paying a massive premium for AI chip design (Nvidia, AMD) while underpricing the physical supply chain that makes those chips real.
- Agentic Infrastructure Software: The Orchestration Layer
The release of NVIDIA's BlueField-4 DPU serves as final confirmation that the data center is being re-architected for agents.
- Who Owns the AI Chip Buildout?
SK Hynix sole primary Nvidia HBM supplier.
- AI Economy — Three Futures for 2030, and the One the Model Leaves Out
The capital stock that the extreme scenario needs — 56% above its no-AI path by 2030, 14% in the substantial case — is being ordered now, and the ordering is itself a demand shock the model does not carry: Alphabet’s…
- Google and RSI — The Loop Nobody Has Closed
- Magnificent Seven — The Seven at the Shelf
Nvidia guided to a demand book it cannot fully supply, the market spent the week selling beats across the software tape, and the indices went nowhere: the Nasdaq 100 fund +0.42% on the week at 716.43.
101 and glossary
- ABR — Agent Beneficiary Ratio: Scoring AI Disruption Impact
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- AI Infrastructure Outlook 2026: Layers, Risks, and Positioning
NVIDIA Blackwell is ramping, but the stock prices in perfection.
- Inference Economics: How the Training-to-Inference Shift Changes Everything
The companies that win the training phase (NVIDIA) may not be the same ones that dominate inference.
- NVIDIA Investor's Timeline: Hopper to Blackwell to Rubin and Beyond
NVIDIA releases new GPU architectures on roughly annual cadence: Hopper (2022), Blackwell (2024-2025), Rubin (2026), and a next-generation architecture (2027+).
- Sovereign AI: The National Compute Arms Race and Its Investment Map
The investment implications span from NVIDIA (selling DGX Cloud to governments globally) to Nebius (Yandex spin-off building European sovereign cloud) to Dell and HPE (on-premises AI infrastructure for nations with data residency…
- The 6-Layer Model: How Closelooknet Maps the AI Supply Chain
Compute (Layer 4) is where NVIDIA dominates but custom ASICs are emerging.
- The Greeks: Reading the Options Dashboard
The same nominal trade — “sell a put on NVDA” — can have completely different risk profiles depending on strike, expiry, and IV environment.
Dailies
- AI Trade — builders and runners sold, users bought: chips enter a bear market, Accenture +9.9% on the week
The chip fund SOXX fell 4.1% to 493.39 (24.7% below its June high); SMH, heavier in Nvidia, is 19.3% below.
- AI Trade — TSMC is ‘prudent’ on 2027: chip fund −2.0%, Dell −7.7%; software bought, Dow +0.9%
AMD −3.8%, Marvell −3.2%, Nvidia and Broadcom −1.7%.
- Chips — SOXX −3.7%, now 20% below its June high; software −2.4% as hot inflation and BlackRock weigh
AMD −4.9%, Applied Materials −3.2%, Broadcom and TSMC −2.7%, Nvidia and Micron −2.7%.
- Earnings — J&J −6.2% and Citi −3.8% after beats; Micron −5.1%, chip fund back under its 50-day line
Nvidia +0.5%, AMD +0.5% and Broadcom +0.3% hold up — the selling is in memory and the machine makers, not in the chip designers.
- Chips — memory and optics sold again: Lumentum −7.7%, SanDisk −6.5%, chip fund −2.6%; Meta +3.8%
Chip makers down again: SOXX −2.6% to $544.90, SMH −2.1%; Marvell −4.1%, Arm −4.0%, Intel −3.6%, AMD −3.4%, Nvidia −1.5%
- AI Capex — chip index −3.4% after OpenAI's revenue comes in at $50 billion, not $70 billion; software rises
The market sold the companies that depend on OpenAI's spending: the Philadelphia chip index −3.4%, the chip fund SMH −2.8% to 607.27, Broadcom −4.4% to 360.14, Micron −4.8% to 1,035.84, SanDisk −4.9%, AMD −3.9%, Nvidia −2.9% to 230.48…
- Oil — Brent +3.4% to $103.64, energy the only strong sector; chips and power generators sold, PepsiCo +1.1%
Chips lower again: SMH −1.0%, AMD −1.8% to $634.21, TSMC −1.6% to $464.55, Nvidia −0.9% to $235.41
- Stocks — broadly lower after the records: Russell 2000 −1.4%, power and cooling names sold, Penguin +15.3%
Nvidia holds up better than the chip funds at −0.9%.
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