By Trevor Jennewine
Publication Date: 2026-05-11 09:12:00
Nvidia (NVDA +1.73%) remains the center of the artificial intelligence boom, but the stock is up just 15% in 2026, both because investors worry the current pace of AI spending is unsustainable and because they question the durability of Nvidia’s dominance in the AI infrastructure market.
Meanwhile, DigitalOcean (DOCN +8.99%) is a little-known cloud computing company whose aggressive expansion into AI services has led to tremendous shareholder returns. The stock is up 240% this year, and most Wall Street analysts say it’s still undervalued. The median target price of $177 per share implies 8% upside from its current share price of $164.
Here’s what investors should know about these AI stocks.
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Nvidia: The dominant supplier of AI infrastructure
Nvidia dominates the artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company is best known for its GPUs, chips that accelerate AI workloads, but its greatest competitive strength lies in vertical integration. Nvidia builds rack-scale AI systems comprising chips and networking, and it supplements its hardware with an unmatched software ecosystem of developers.
That full-stack strategy affords Nvidia a durable competitive moat. The company has nearly 90% market share in AI accelerators, and it captures over 40% of AI data center spending. Nvidia may lose some market share in the coming years as custom chips (e.g., Alphabet‘s TPU) become more popular, but it will almost certainly remain the dominant supplier of…
