{"id":2195,"date":"2025-11-17T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/peter-thiels-hedge-fund-dumps-nvidia-stake-cuts-back-tesla-position\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:06:27","slug":"peter-thiels-hedge-fund-dumps-nvidia-stake-cuts-back-tesla-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/peter-thiels-hedge-fund-dumps-nvidia-stake-cuts-back-tesla-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel&#8217;s hedge fund dumps Nvidia stake, cuts back Tesla position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<div data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\">\n<p><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ArticleBody-extraData\"><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ArticleBody-extraData\"><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"xyz-data\">Peter Thiel &#8216;s namesake fund exited Nvidia in the third quarter, the latest sign of caution around the high-flying artificial intelligence darling. Thiel Macro zeroed out its stake worth nearly $94 million during the three-month period, regulatory fillings show. It marked the fund&#8217;s biggest change by dollar value in the quarter, according to InsiderScore. Thiel&#8217;s decision mirrors that of Japanese firm SoftBank, which announced earlier this month that it sold its entire stake in Nvidia for around $5.8 billion. Some investors have grown increasingly concerned in recent weeks that the AI trade, after driving the market to record highs over the past few years, is showing signs of being a bubble. NVDA YTD mountain Nvidia, year to date Nvidia shares rallied around 18% in the third quarter and are tracking to end the year up roughly 40%. Wall Street sees more room to run: The average analyst has a buy rating and price target implying upside of about 23%, according to LSEG. Thiel similarly did away with his position worth more than $40 million in Vistra , a key beneficiary of the AI data center buildout. Vistra shares rose about 1% in the quarter, but have dropped more than 9% since the start of October. The PayPal cofounder also pared his position in Tesla by more than 76%. Still, the electric vehicle maker was the fund&#8217;s biggest holding of three total at the end of September, per InsiderScore. Thiel may have been taking profit, as Tesla shares surged 40% in the third quarter. The stock has dropped more than 7% in the current quarter and is on track to end the year less than 3% higher. TSLA YTD mountain Tesla, year to date But other tech names got better treatment from the Palantir board chairman in the quarter. Thiel built positions worth more than $25 million and $20 million in Microsoft and Apple , respectively, in the period.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Thiel &#8216;s namesake fund exited Nvidia in the third quarter, the latest sign of caution around the high-flying artificial intelligence darling. Thiel Macro zeroed out its stake worth nearly $94 million during the three-month period, regulatory fillings show. It marked the fund&#8217;s biggest change by dollar value in the quarter, according to InsiderScore. Thiel&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[557,2211,442,1586,615,2209,1493,582,741,2210],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-cuts","tag-dumps","tag-fund","tag-hedge","tag-nvidia","tag-peter","tag-position","tag-stake","tag-tesla","tag-thiels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}