Investors Piled Into ETFs to Bet on Nvidia's Earnings. It Paid Off

  • Funds saw an influx of cash ahead of the earnings release
  • ETFs that place leverage bets on Nvidia see big gains

Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

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Nvidia Corp. is delivering a bonanza to investors who piled into a handful of exchange-traded funds to wager that the chipmaker would deliver another earnings-season blowout.

The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (Ticker SMH), which pulled in some $324 million on Wednesday ahead of Nvidia’s release, rose nearly 7% Thursday, its biggest one-day jump since May.