If I Could Only Buy and Hold 1 “Magnificent Seven” Stock Through 2030, It Would Be This One | The Motley Fool

If I Could Only Buy and Hold 1 “Magnificent Seven” Stock Through 2030, It Would Be This One | The Motley Fool

By Keithen Drury
Publication Date: 2026-11-02 00:08:00

The “Magnificent Seven” is a cohort of big tech stocks that consists of:

  1. Nvidia (NVDA -4.22%)
  2. Apple (AAPL -1.23%)
  3. Microsoft (MSFT -1.55%)
  4. Alphabet (GOOG -1.45%) (GOOGL -1.40%)
  5. Amazon (AMZN -1.41%)
  6. Meta Platforms (META -1.53%)
  7. Tesla (TSLA -0.86%)

This group of stocks have led the market for a long time, and they are among the top 10 largest companies listed on U.S. exchanges. Each is also working on artificial intelligence technologies to some extent, but there are questions as to which stock will be the best performer through 2030. I think if you look at market commentary and what these companies are saying, the choice is obvious: Nvidia.

Nvidia should deliver the best returns through 2030, mostly thanks to the incredible growth it will take to get there. But how far could it go? Let’s take a look.

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Many companies in the Magnificent Seven are paying Nvidia billions of dollars

Nvidia makes GPUs, along with the software and other hardware to support their use. Graphics processing units are the top choice for many AI workloads, whether for training or inference. Nvidia’s GPUs are generally recognized as best-in-class and have become synonymous with AI computing for a reason.

Many of the companies on this list are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure each year. That figure goes to a handful of places, but purchasing computing units is by far the largest use of that capital. Because Nvidia is far larger than its…