If You'd Invested $10,000 in Nvidia 10 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today
Key Points
Nvidia's stock price has grown by more than 22,000% in the last decade.
That well exceeded the gains of all of its Magnificent Seven peers.
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In December 2015, a loose group of researchers, engineers, and tech company leaders that included Sam Altman and Elon Musk came together in a San Francisco living room to articulate a vision for artificial intelligence (AI) that might actually benefit humanity one day.
A decade later, the fruits of that meeting are starting to surface in the real world.
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One of the companies that has profited the most from that vision is "Magnificent Seven" powerhouse Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). In the last decade, the hardware giant has evolved from a company best known for gaming GPUs into a trillion-dollar club member that's leading the AI infrastructure buildout.
Considering that 10 years ago, Nvidia had a roughly $17 billion market cap, you'd probably expect a $10,000 investment made in it then to be worth a small fortune today.
But just how much it would be worth might make you do a double-take.
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A gain of over 22,000%
If you had invested $10,000 in Nvidia 10 years ago and held on through all the flat, rocky, and exhilarating years that followed, your current investment would be worth well over $2.2 million.
To put that into perspective, if you had invested the same amount in any of the other six Magnificent Seven stocks -- Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Tesla -- your returns would have been impressive, but nowhere close to what the chipmaker delivered.
NVDA Total Return Level data by YCharts.
Nvidia has earned its crown. For investors who believe AI spending will continue to climb, the stock remains a top pick to consider buying.
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Steven Porrello has positions in Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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