Here’s How Much Investing $10,000 in Nvidia When It Went Public Would Be Worth Now
Nvidia was founded in 1993 and went public in January 1999, first trading at $12 per share.
Key Takeaways
- Nvidia’s stock is up by over 100% this year.
- A $10,000 investment in Nvidia back then would be worth over $30 million now.
- The returns on investment are a testament to Nvidia’s stock market performance: Nvidia alone accounted for one-third of S&P 500 gains this year.
If you went back 25 years and invested $10,000 in Nvidia stock when the company went public (and held on through the ups and downs), how much would your initial investment be worth now?
An from 31-year-old financial services company The Motley Fool has the answer: Over $30 million.
That’s more than double what the investment would have been worth at the end of 2023 ($12 million) and thirty times what the investment would have yielded in late 2017 ($1 million), per the analysis.
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Nvidia was founded in 1993 and six years later in January 1999, first trading at $12 per share.
The tech giant is one of the Magnificent Seven, a term coined in to describe Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla for their notable on the market. More than belonging to this group, Nvidia has led it in performance.
As of Monday, had a year-to-date return of about 147% compared to 41% and 30.55%.
, , and had year-to-date returns of 29%, 20.26%, and -16%, respectively.
Nvidia alone accounts for one-third of S&P 500 gains this year.
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The reason for Nvidia’s growth is its crucial position in the AI boom: Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs), which have been around for and power visuals on video games, laptops, and more, are the brains of ChatGPT.
CEO Jensen Huang an early partnership with OpenAI in 2016 with a gift AI supercomputer. Nvidia now holds 80% of the AI chip market and tens of thousands of its chips ChatGPT and other AI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Photo by I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty Images
Nvidia’s growth has benefitted some of its longer-term employees who receive stock bonuses. At a December company meeting, Huang urged these “semi-retired” employees to become the CEOs of their time.
Though Nvidia now leads the AI chip market, competition is growing from established companies like , startups like , and even Nvidia’s own customers. About 40% of Nvidia’s revenue is to come from Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet.
Key Takeaways
- Nvidia’s stock is up by over 100% this year.
- A $10,000 investment in Nvidia back then would be worth over $30 million now.
- The returns on investment are a testament to Nvidia’s stock market performance: Nvidia alone accounted for one-third of S&P 500 gains this year.
If you went back 25 years and invested $10,000 in Nvidia stock when the company went public (and held on through the ups and downs), how much would your initial investment be worth now?
An from 31-year-old financial services company The Motley Fool has the answer: Over $30 million.
That’s more than double what the investment would have been worth at the end of 2023 ($12 million) and thirty times what the investment would have yielded in late 2017 ($1 million), per the analysis.
