Nvidia opened 13% down after Jensen Huang resigned. It closed down 4.3%.

Nvidia opened Thursday 13.1% below Wednesday's close, on the day the company announced that Jensen Huang was stepping down as chief executive. It closed down 4.3%. That 10.1% climb from the open is the biggest open-to-close gain for $NVDA in our price records, which start in April 2025. The previous largest was 4.9%, on 6 February 2026. Open-to-close counts only the move during regular trading, from the first trade to the 4 p.m. close.

From the low to the close

At its low of $148.80, the stock was 14.3% below Wednesday's close of $173.73. It finished at $166.19, near its high for the day of $167.14. On the share count behind our treemap, the move from the low to the close added back about $420 billion of market value.

The close still left Nvidia down $182 billion on the day, the largest loss of any S&P 500 company. The whole index lost a net $229 billion, and 374 of its 500 stocks fell. Even after the rebound, it was Nvidia's lowest close since 30 March.

The busiest session on record

Nvidia traded 740 million shares on Thursday, about 60% more than the previous high in our records. The three busiest sessions we have for the stock all fell this week. Monday's session had a smaller version of the same shape: the stock opened 7.3% lower and closed down 4.3%.

Reuters reported that retail buyers limited the stock's fall. Our data shows how many shares changed hands, not who was buying them.