By 24/7 Wall St.
Publication Date: 2026-11-02 22:00:00
The same $10,000 placed in NVIDIA on November 2, 2021 grew to $76,783, while Intel’s turned into $13,064 over the identical five years.
NVIDIA shareholders had to sit through a deep drawdown below their starting value before the AI-driven acceleration arrived. Selling near those lows would have cost investors the bulk of a nearly sevenfold return.
Intel’s late recovery still leaves holders with a total return of just 30.6% over the full five years.
Choosing between these two chipmakers in November 2021 mattered more than almost any other portfolio decision in that window, as GPU-driven computing demand reshaped the semiconductor landscape.
