If You’d Dropped $5K on Nvidia Stock 3 Years Back, Brace Yourself for This Mind-Blowing Return

Nvidia's stock didn't just climb—it launched into the stratosphere, leaving traditional investments eating silicon dust.

From AI supremacy to data center dominance

The chipmaker's relentless innovation in artificial intelligence and GPU technology fueled a rally that turned modest investments into life-changing sums—while old-school fund managers were still rebalancing their bond portfolios.

Timing the market beats time in the market?

For those who saw the AI revolution coming, Nvidia delivered returns that dwarfed crypto's wildest pumps—without the sleepless nights watching leverage positions liquidate.

Lesson learned: Sometimes the boring old stock market still serves up generational wealth—if you bet on the right horse before the whole herd stampedes.

In the right place at the right time with the right solution

So much has happened since then that it seems like it was much longer ago. But it's true -- the public version of ChatGPT only debuted in Nov. 2022.'s Gemini (then called Bard) was released in February of the following year, andunveiled its AI-powered conversational assistant Copilot that September. Corporate-level and non-consumer developmental AI work was being done before 2022, but only in the past few years has this technology ushered in a full-blown Gold rush.

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All of this has worked in Nvidia's favor. Its graphics processing units (GPUs) remain the market's go-to source for the computing power behind artificial intelligence applications. Some estimates suggest the company's market share still stands in the ballpark of 90%. That's why the stock is up 883% since Aug. 2022, meaning a $5,000 investment then would be worth a little over $49,000 as of this writing.

No repeat on the horizon, but still ...

That was a once-in-a-decade kind of opportunity. The feat won't likely be repeated between now and 2028.

Nevertheless, the artificial intelligence movement is still going strong. Precedence Research believes the AI data center market is set to grow at an average annual pace of more than 28% through 2034. Nvidia still features prominently in that growth, too. Even if another 883% gain isn't in the cards, this stock remains a compelling growth bet.