By Selena Maranjian, The Motley Fool
Publication Date: 2026-06-04 04:05:00
Check out how magnificently Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has performed in recent years:
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Average annual return |
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Past 1 year |
62.22% |
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Past 3 years |
78.30% |
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Past 5 years |
67.76% |
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Past 10 years |
68.93% |
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Past 15 years |
50.68% |
Source: Data from Morningstar.com as of June 2, 2026.
That’s enough to turn a single $10,000 investment into more than $130,000 over the past five years, or roughly $1.9 million over the past decade.
That might have you wondering if you missed this boat. Surprisingly, the shares still seem attractively valued.
Check it out: Nvidia’s recent forward-looking price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.6 is well below its five-year average of 36.1. And its recent price-to-sales ratio of 21.5 is below its five-year average of 24. (Those price-to-sales numbers are steep!) Steep valuation measures can be justified, though, when a company is growing briskly.
In its recently reported first quarter, Nvidia posted revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% from the year-ago quarter. The company has found great success supplying chips to gobs of data centers that are facilitating artificial intelligence (AI) processing, and its first quarter also featured record data center revenue of $75.2…
