Staggering return on $1000 invested in Nvidia five years ago
That's right, here's another company you should have invested in years ago.
People who were about in the 80s and 90s will likely regret not lumping their life savings on Apple and Microsoft, and millennials will probably rue the opportunity they had to buy Bitcoin in 2010.
But for Gen Z in particular, there's been one company which has skyrocketed in value so far this decade.
With the increased reliance on AI across major industries, it makes sense that tech companies would be looking to lump funding into developing and creating AI computing chips.
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Nvidia is the leader in this sector, with the California-based company controlling over 80 percent of the market for GPUs used in AI.
This translates to a lot of money, unsurprisingly - but how much exactly?
Who is Nvidia?
Founded in 1993, the multinational technology company started out as a video game graphics chip designer, before evolving over the decades to become a global leader in AI computing.
They design specialise microchips, which are now key in the world of AI including data centres, high-performance computing, and autonomous vehicles.
This involves helping with training large AI models and scientific simulations through their Graphics Processing Units and Compute Unified Device Architecture tech.
The success of the US company was highlighted on Wednesday night (25 February), reporting that it hit a record quarterly revenue of $68.1bn for October-December 2025.
Nvidia's rise in power
The company's quarterly revenue presented a 20 percent increase compared to the third quarter of 2025, and a 73 percent increase from the same quarter in 2024.
The founder and CEO of Nvidia said: “Enterprise adoption of agents is skyrocketing. Our customers are racing to invest in AI compute - the factories powering the AI industrial revolution and their future growth.”
They also predict that they will jump in sales before the end of Q1 to hit $78.0bn
Return on investment in Nvidia stocks
If you to go five years back in time to slap $1000 (£73.85) on Nvidia stocks, how much would you have made since?
According to Finance Charts, the stock has seen a growth of 1374 percent since 1 March 2021.
It means that if you lumped $1,000 on the stock back then, you'd be looking at a total of $13,740 (£10,147) on your investment, meaning you would have made a profit of $12,740 (£9409).
Back in 2021, one share of Nvidia stock was worth around $12.40 but now, you'd have to fork out around $195.50 for one share - share price at time of publish.
So once again, if you were second guessing about investing in the company when it was on the come-up, you'll probably be kicking yourself now.
AI bubble theory
It may not be worth getting too pent up about it now, not because the past is the past, but many speculate the AI bubble may soon burst.
These stocks have inflated the stock market, and according to experts such as Michael Burry, it means that the stock market could be at risk of crashing.
Burry, a US investor and hedge fund manager best known for being played by Christian Bale in 2015 film The Big Short, bet against the housing market prior to the 2008 financial recession.
He once warned investors about the impending US subprime mortgage crisis and he has seemingly warned against AI in recent times, betting £840 million ($1.1 million) against the industry, specifically against software company Palantir and Nvidia.
Burry was right about the mortgage crisis, and last year, he wrote on X: "Sometimes, we see bubbles. Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play," alongside an image of Bale portraying him.
He didn't address the move directly, but given that he predicted that lenders issuing people with 'high-risk' mortgages would cause the housing market to crash, long before others caught on, it's worth giving him a listen.
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Money
Joshua Nair