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Squawk on the Street

SOTS 2nd Hour: Nvidia's High Bar, How To Play Tech Volatility, & LIVE: IMAX & Zoom CEOs 2/26/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Investing, Business

4.0566 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Michael Santoli, and David Faber kicked off the hour with a deep dive on the story of the day: Nvidia earnings, as shares turned lower despite a big beat. Truist CIO Keith Lerner discussed the high bar for investors - and dueling dynamics between software and the semis, before the team broke down the state of the Big Tech trade with one analyst who's still bullish on Nvidia here. Also in focus: the view from the C-Suite... Hear the CEO of IMAX talk the company's record earnings - and who he thinks should acquire Warner Brothers Discovery... Along with the CEO of Zoom - fresh off results hitting shares double digits. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Good Thursday morning, welcome to squawk on the street.

0:02.0

I'm Carl Kintenea with Mike Santoli, David Faber here at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Sarah has the morning off. Coming up this hour, tech expert Ben Wright's is from Melius, will be with us. Break down these earnings from Nvidia and maybe Salesforce, as Nvidia now pulls back about 3% plus. Two big interviews you do not want to miss. Zoom's chief Eric Yuan will join us as that

0:22.3

stock pulls back hard after turning in a mixed quarter. And IMAX's Rich Gelfand is here as the

0:27.3

theater company shares rise on some solid results. Meantime watching, I guess the turnaround in

0:34.1

NVIDIA from pre-marketed levels, Mike. For sure. Actually, after the close, after the report, touched $200 briefly and then did pull back.

0:42.3

I mean, it seems as if people kind of got revved up ahead of this number.

0:46.3

This is an amazingly transparent earnings model, and I think that we have to kind of recognize that.

0:51.3

We know where all the money is coming from.

0:53.3

We know the demand.

0:56.1

We know they're going to raise guidance a little bit.

0:57.6

I guess it was even better than anticipated.

1:03.5

What it really did today is catalyze a sell semis to buy software trade.

1:05.3

I mean, it's radical this morning.

1:09.0

And it's almost as if people took to heart what Jensen Wong said about,

1:10.7

hey, we're not out there to kill software.

1:11.6

It's still going to be alive.

1:15.2

That's the semiconductor ETF relative to the software ETF.

1:17.0

Now, that is a 10-year chart.

1:22.3

So that shows you kind of like what atmospheric level we've gotten to relative to the history of this.

1:26.2

So we're pulling, that basically is reversing by like four or five percentage points today.

1:28.0

So whether that's just kind of this reflection of we're still in this market where you've got to sell something to buy

1:32.6

something, we had two days where you have mega caps taking the lead again. S&P gets a little bit

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