Stock Market Today, Sept. 23: IonQ Surges on Quantum Breakthrough and Nvidia Partnership
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Today’s Change
(4.42%) $1.80
Current Price
$42.54
Key Data Points
Market Cap
Day’s Range
$41.63 – $46.05
52wk Range
$25.89 – $84.64
Volume
72.5M
Avg Vol
20.3M
Gross Margin
-3317.96%
IonQ (IONQ +4.42%), a full-stack trapped-ion quantum computing provider, closed at $42.54, up 4.42%. It rose after a real-time error-correction breakthrough and a research-center collaboration with Nvidia (NVDA -1.47%).
Trading volume reached 69.9 million shares, coming in about 233% above its three-month average of 21.0 million shares. IonQ IPO’d in 2021 and has grown 294% since going public.
How the markets moved today
The S&P 500 (^GSPC -0.75%) fell 0.75% to 7,706, and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC -1.13%) fell 1.13% to 26,936. Among quantum computing hardware, software, and cloud-access services peers, Rigetti Computing (RGTI -3.12%) closed at $16.00, down 3.12%, and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS -4.27%) closed at $16.81, down 4.27%, as the group tracked IonQ’s decoder news.
What this means for investors
IonQ defied a tech downturn today on company-specific news, prompting investors to bet that its quantum computing developments signal a leadership position in the space. The company announced a breakthrough in error decoding with what it called “the industry’s first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder that runs on a single standard off-the-shelf central processing unit (CPU).”
In addition to that news, IonQ announced a potentially important step toward commercializing its quantum systems. Its Superion 256 system will be installed in Nvidia’s accelerated quantum research center to run as a niche processing system alongside Nvidia GPU (graphics processing unit) clusters.
That could lead to hybrid developments and create large-scale systems for AI use cases that include both GPU and quantum designs. That has investors feeling more confident about IonQ’s future commercial success.