By Jeremy Bowman, The Motley Fool
Publication Date: 2026-09-23 04:20:00
Even if you’re a total novice to the stock market, you’ve probably heard of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA).
Nvidia is now the most valuable company in the world, worth more than $5 trillion. Its chips have formed the backbone of the AI revolution, and the top AI labs and cloud computing platforms rely on them to make AI applications run.
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If you were fortunate enough to buy Nvidia a decade ago and hold it, you would have made a huge return as the stock is up more than 14,000% during that time. That means a $1,000 investment in Nvidia would now be worth more than $14,000.
The stock won’t do that again over the next decade, but it still looks poised to soar by 2028. Here’s how I see it.
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Nvidia is still cheap
There’s a lot of jargon in investing, but one of the most important concepts that beginning investors can learn is the price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E ratio. This is a company’s price per share divided by its earnings per share.
Newbie investors often think that a stock’s share price determines whether it is cheap or not. For instance, a $10 stock would be cheap and a $500 stock would be expensive, but the share price alone isn’t really meaningful.
Owning a share of a stock is a claim on its earnings, so what…
