If You Invested $1,000 In Nvidia Stock At IPO, Here’s How Much You’d Have Today – NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Technology giant NVIDIA Corporation NVDA enters 2025 celebrating several milestones, including record financial results, becoming the most valuable company and a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The company celebrates its IPO anniversary on January 22. Here’s a look back at how much the lucky and perhaps smart investors who bought shares of Nvidia at the IPO would have made.

Investing $1,000 in Nvidia at IPO: Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world in May 2023, passing the market capitalization level of $1 trillion.

Since then, the company has passed the $2 trillion and $3 trillion market capitalization levels. At the time of writing, Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world at $3.589 trillion, just ahead of Apple ($3.339 trillion).

Back in 1999, Nvidia held its initial public offering on January 22, with shares priced at $12 each.

A $1,000 investment in the company would have been able to buy 83.33 shares at that time.

Since its IPO, Nvidia has had several stock splits that increased the number of shares held by shareholders. The stock had 2:1 splits in 2000, 2001 and 2006, 3:2 splits in 2007, 4:1 splits in July 2021 and the most recent 10:1 split in June 2024.

Today, the original 83.33 shares will amount to 39,998.4 shares after the share splits.

The initial investment of $1,000 in Nvidia stock would be worth $5,862,965.47 based on a stock price of $146.58. This represents a huge return for Nvidia IPO buyers with some potential millionaires created over the years.

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By comparison, they invested the same $1,000 in SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust VSPYwhich tracks the S&P 500, would have underperformed Nvidia.

A $1,000 investment in SPY stock could have bought 12.82 shares at that time, based on an adjusted price of $78.03 on January 22, 1999.

The $1,000 invested in SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust would be worth $7,789.94 today.

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What happened: Nvidia has been at the forefront of the AI ​​revolution and growth as a leader in the sector, which has helped boost its share price over the past several years.

Since it was founded in 1993, Nvidia has sought to be at the forefront of technological advancements to help new industrial advancements.

In 1999, the company invented the Graphics Processing Unit, commonly known as the GPU today. The GPU redefined the computing industry.

In 2012, Nvidia ushered in the modern era of AI with the AlexNet neural network, potentially putting the company ahead of others when it came to believing in the capabilities of artificial intelligence.

In March 2024, the company revealed Blackwell GPU, which could help the company further disrupt the growth of artificial intelligence.

What’s next: Nvidia continues to draw praise from analysts as one of the best plays on the growth of artificial intelligence.

The big question for investors today is whether Nvidia will continue to outperform the overall market and be one of the best performing stocks going forward.

Nvidia beat analyst estimates in the third quarter for both revenue and earnings per share. stock. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the continued growth of artificial intelligence and the company’s new products experiencing high demand.

“The age of AI is in full swing, driving a global shift to NVIDIA computing,” Huang said at the time.

Huang said countries have “awakened to the importance” of AI.

“AI is transforming every industry, business and country. Businesses are using agent AI to revolutionize workflows. Industrial robotics investment is rising with breakthroughs in physical AI.”

Chairman Donald Trump has placed an early emphasis on artificial intelligence, which could help boost Nvidia stock over time. In 2017, Nvidia was the ninth best performing S&P 500 stock during Trump’s first year in the White House. Investors will hope Trump’s return to office is good for Nvidia and AI.

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This article was previously published by Benzinga and has been updated.

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