By Daniel Sparks, The Motley Fool
Publication Date: 2026-08-12 23:07:00
Over the past year, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) added about 24% to its market value, which now sits near $5.4 trillion as of this writing. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) added about 474%, lifting its value to roughly $510 billion. On that measure, it isn’t close.
But market value tracks two things at once: the share price and how many shares exist. These two gains are built differently.
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Intel: a higher price and more shares
Intel‘s stock price is up roughly 400% over the past year, from around $20 to about $101 as of this writing. The rest of the market-value gain came from the share count, which grew by about a sixth (from about 4.4 billion shares to more than 5 billion). Much of the new stock was issued to the U.S. government under the company’s CHIPS Act agreement, along with other new investors. And a shareholder who held Intel all year captured the price move, not the headline market-value move.
Of course, the higher price has substance behind it. Intel’s revenue rose 25% year over year last quarter, its fastest growth in nearly 15 years. The run has not been smooth. Shares hit $142.35 at their peak over the past year and now trade about 29% lower.
The earnings, though, haven’t arrived. Intel lost $11.3 billion over…
