Yeah, how can you not know Nvidia in gaming for decades. Their stock has been in the crapper for a few years as well. People have been buying their gfx chips back in the 90s even. As a company, their stock was not always at ATH. On Glassdoor, they've been in the best places to work for over a decade so no, it's not just about the recent stock price:
Nvidia Glassdoor Awards
Best Places to Work
2024 (#2), 2023 (#5), 2022 (#1), 2021 (#2), 2020 (#20), 2019 (#36), 2018 (#24), 2017 (#30), 2015 (#36), 2012 (#49)
It's one thing to blindly follow Elon, but another to be completely wrong as well. Surprised so many here knows nothing about nvidia and their gfx dominance for decades. Anyone even a little into gaming asks what to buy when it comes to gfx cards.
As for the negative hit pieces, it's because Tesla's growth has stopped and Elon is starting demon mode and things are not going well. It's not fake pieces when a supposedly high growth stock has no growth at all YoY. This is not a Nvidia discussion, but they had 400%+ YoY revenue growth. Maybe it won't last and there will be a pullback, but Tesla's growth has heavily stalled, hence the pivot to FSD/AI/Robotics. None of that is fake news. If FSD/AI/Robotics takes a while to ramp up, we're looking at stalled growth for a long time possibly with further threats/competition of EVs in China and simple, in the US, far more other options in the EV space.