11 Worst-Performing Blue Chip Stocks So Far in 2025

5. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Year To Date Share Price Return as of April 25: -19.74%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 223

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is a technology company that designs and supplies graphic processing units for high-performance computing in data centres, computers and gaming consoles. It is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence-driven rally, having exploded to become a trillion-dollar company over the past two years. While the stock has posted double-digit percentage gains over the past two years, it is under immense pressure in 2025.

The deep pullback has come from NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) being caught in the middle of an escalating trade war between China and the US. Consequently, the company says it will take a hit of $5.5 billion on the US placing restrictions on the export of its H20 artificial intelligence chips specifically designed for the Chinese market.

The H20 chip has less computing power than the more powerful AI chips banned in China. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) confirmed that it will require a special license to export the chip to China, a market that accounted for 13% of its sales last year and continues to send jitters in the market. Amid the restrictions, HSBC has downgraded the stock to a Hold from a Buy, concerned that the chipmaker’s pricing strength in the AI GPU market is fading.