Nvidia carved out an early lead in tailoring its chipsets often known as graphics processing models, or GPUs, from use in powering video video games to serving to to coach highly effective AI techniques, just like the know-how behind ChatGPT and picture mills. Demand skyrocketed as extra folks started utilizing AI chatbots. Tech firms scrambled for extra chips to construct and run them.
Nvidia’s journey to be one of many world’s most distinguished firms has produced some extraordinary numbers. Right here’s a glance.
$31.9 billion
Nvidia’s internet earnings for the third quarter, up from $19.3 billion a 12 months in the past.
38.9%
Nvidia inventory’s achieve for the 12 months, as of the shut of buying and selling Wednesday. That follows good points of 171% in 2024 and 239% in 2023.
$4.53 trillion
Nvidia’s complete market capitalization as of the shut of buying and selling Wednesday, tops within the S&P 500. Apple at $3.98 trillion and Microsoft at $3.62 trillion had been subsequent among the many most dear firms within the S&P 500. In all, 9 firms within the index have market cap’s above $1 trillion.
$4.28 trillion
The gross home product of Japan, the world’s fourth largest financial system, in line with the Worldwide Financial Fund.
79
The variety of buying and selling days it took for Nvidia’s market cap to develop from $4 trillion to $5 trillion earlier this 12 months. The market cap had jumped from $3 trillion on Could 13, to $4 trillion on July 9 (41 buying and selling days), though Nvidia had crossed and fallen again under the $3 trillion threshold numerous occasions between June 2024 and Could 2025 earlier than making the run to $4 trillion.
19.8%
The corporate’s contribution to the achieve within the S&:P 500 this 12 months as of Oct. 31, in line with S&P Dow Jones Indices.
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$162 billion
The online price of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in line with Forbes, placing him eighth on its Actual-Time Billionaires Record. Elon Musk is No. 1 at $467.7 billion.
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