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Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group has sold its entire stake in US chipmaker Nvidia for $5.83 billion, CNBC reported on Tuesday. Citing the company’s earnings statement, CNBC said SoftBank sold 32.1 million shares of Nvidia in October.
The divestment was part of a broader effort by the Japanese investment giant to monetise its holdings. According to the company’s latest filing, SoftBank also sold 40.2 million shares of T-Mobile between June and September 2025, raising $9.17 billion, and generated an additional $2.37 billion through the settlement of collar transactions and partial sale of Deutsche Telekom shares.
Following the quarter’s end, SoftBank amended the terms of its margin loan backed by Arm shares, increasing the loan facility from $13.5 billion to $20 billion, with $11.5 billion remaining undrawn as of November 11, 2025.
The Nvidia sale also comes nearly a year after SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son publicly joked about his regret over offloading Nvidia shares too soon.
In 2017, SoftBank’s Vision Fund acquired about 4.9% of Nvidia, making it one of the chipmaker’s largest shareholders at the time. By early 2019, however, SoftBank began selling its stake, then worth around $4 billion, but which would have been valued at roughly $160 billion today.
The divestment was part of a broader effort by the Japanese investment giant to monetise its holdings. According to the company’s latest filing, SoftBank also sold 40.2 million shares of T-Mobile between June and September 2025, raising $9.17 billion, and generated an additional $2.37 billion through the settlement of collar transactions and partial sale of Deutsche Telekom shares.
Following the quarter’s end, SoftBank amended the terms of its margin loan backed by Arm shares, increasing the loan facility from $13.5 billion to $20 billion, with $11.5 billion remaining undrawn as of November 11, 2025.
The Nvidia sale also comes nearly a year after SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son publicly joked about his regret over offloading Nvidia shares too soon.
In 2017, SoftBank’s Vision Fund acquired about 4.9% of Nvidia, making it one of the chipmaker’s largest shareholders at the time. By early 2019, however, SoftBank began selling its stake, then worth around $4 billion, but which would have been valued at roughly $160 billion today.
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