NvidiaShares of rose in premarket trading Wednesday, after falling for two days amid the scandal that has rocked the world’s most valuable technology company.
Shares closed 5.47% lower on Tuesday as more details were revealed about the impact of CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy. They fell 4.3% on Monday.
Shares were up 4.5% in premarket trading as of 5 a.m. ET.
Nvidia shares over the last five days.
On Tuesday, Nvidia announced that it had hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to investigate whether corporate secrets or national security had been compromised.
Huang tried to project “business as usual” when he returned to the office on Monday, people familiar with the matter told CNBC. The CEO was also in the office Tuesday leading meetings ahead of the company’s quarterly earnings release on Nov. 17.
Investors are evaluating whether this affair will have negative repercussions on the company.
In a Tuesday note, Bank of America said it considered three scenarios with different investment outcomes. In one scenario, the impact is contained through continuity of leadership, and in another, prolonged uncertainty puts pressure on valuations ahead of earnings.
In the final scenario, the impact is worsened, with “unfavorable results, management disruption or tighter restrictions requiring a reassessment of earnings,” BofA analyst Vivek Arya said in the note.
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