Here's a fun bit of market arithmetic: gold just became nearly seven times bigger than Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), and billionaire investor Jeffrey Gundlach thinks that's worth noticing. While Nvidia continues printing money from the AI revolution, spot gold blew past $4,500 an ounce for the first time ever, pushing the metal's total market value to roughly $31.5 trillion. For all the hype about artificial intelligence rewriting capitalism, capital keeps flooding into humanity's oldest store of value.
When AI Winners Start Hedging
The contrast gets sharper when you look at what insiders are actually doing. Mark Stevens, Nvidia's second-largest shareholder and a board member since 2008, recently sold about $40 million worth of stock. On its own, that's pocket change compared to Nvidia's daily trading volume and Stevens' massive long-term position. But zoom out a bit, and it fits a pattern: people are cashing in explosive AI gains and quietly shifting some proceeds toward safer ground.
This isn't panic selling or a crisis of faith in Nvidia's business. It's just portfolio management. When your tech holdings quintuple, you rebalance. You take chips off the table. You buy insurance.
Gundlach's Observation
Gundlach put it simply: "Another day, another new high in the dollar price of gold."
The timing is what makes this interesting. Gold doesn't usually rip higher while equity markets are celebrating record valuations and technological breakthroughs. When both happen simultaneously, it tells you investors aren't choosing between growth and defense—they're buying both. That's excellent news for anyone holding SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) or iShares Gold Trust (IAU), which track the gold price and have been riding this wave higher.
Scale and What It Means
Nvidia represents the future: technological acceleration, productivity miracles, and the infrastructure powering the next computing era. Gold represents something older: durability, monetary skepticism, and protection against whatever might go wrong with policy or valuations. The massive size gap between them isn't a judgment on AI's potential. It's a reminder about scale and how much capital globally is devoted to preservation versus speculation.
Even the market's most dominant growth story still looks tiny next to the total pile of wealth seeking safety.
For Nvidia bulls, this isn't necessarily a red flag. But it does suggest the AI boom has matured enough that sophisticated investors aren't just chasing upside anymore—they're actively protecting it. When gold's market value is seven times bigger than the chip company powering artificial intelligence, maybe the smartest money isn't betting against tech. Maybe it's just hedging the ride.