SoftBank's Share Price Tumbles 10% Following Full Divestiture of NVIDIA Holdings
2025-11-12 / Read about 0 minute
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On Wednesday morning, shares of Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. experienced a sharp decline, plummeting by up to 10% in early trading. The previous day, SoftBank disclosed that it had sold its entire stake in NVIDIA, netting $5.83 billion in proceeds. These funds are earmarked for a substantial $22.5 billion investment in OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT. Notably, in October, SoftBank had already offloaded 32.1 million NVIDIA shares and trimmed its holding in T-Mobile, collectively raising $9.17 billion. This latest move is not SoftBank's inaugural exit from NVIDIA; its Vision Fund had already fully divested its NVIDIA shares in January 2019. Some analysts interpret this strategic shift as a bullish indicator from SoftBank regarding the future trajectory of the tech sector. While OpenAI stands as the cornerstone of SoftBank's generative AI investment strategy, the company continues to prioritize hardware development. Leveraging its controlling interest in Arm, SoftBank is actively collaborating with Arm to drive product innovation.