If You’d Invested $100 in Nvidia Stock 25 Years Ago, Here’s How Much You’d Have Today
Nvidia's Meteoric Rise: From Graphics Pioneer to AI Titan
The chipmaker that started with gaming GPUs now powers the AI revolution—and early investors reaped staggering returns
Turning $100 into a Fortune
That modest investment would have ballooned into a life-changing sum today. Nvidia's relentless innovation in graphics processing and artificial intelligence catapulted its valuation to unprecedented heights
Timing the Tech Wave
Nvidia caught multiple technological waves—gaming, crypto mining, and now AI—each sending its stock soaring while traditional investors were still debating P/E ratios
The Ultimate HODL Lesson
While Wall Street analysts were busy downgrading the stock during temporary dips, long-term holders discovered the hardest part of investing isn't picking winners—it's sitting on your hands while they multiply
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More shares, higher prices
Nvidia went public in Jan. 1999 at $12 per share. After gaining more than 700% and reaching $100 per share, the company executed its first stock split by June 2000. Even though there was no AI mania back then, it was already impressing investors with chips largely catering to the video game industry. Nvidia has split its stock five more times since then.
Between all of its stock splits and its small dividend, Nvidia stock has turned $100 into more than $60,000 over the past 25 years.
Data by YCharts.
Just in the past three years, the stock has delivered a total return of more than 900%, turning a $100 investment into a little over $1,000 today.
The market appears to be on the fence about where Nvidia is headed from here, and it's waiting with bated breath for the company's second-quarter earnings report on Aug. 27. It's unlikely that over the next 25 years, a $100 investment in the chip giant is going to see the same 62,000% total return it did over the past 25 years, but Nvidia could still be a winning growth stock in a diversified portfolio.
