By Selena Maranjian
Publication Date: 2025-12-01 17:00:00
Key Points
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The stock has averaged triple-digit annual gains over the past few years.
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Its chips are used for artificial technology, which has been exploding.
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The company is adding more offerings, too.
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December is a month when many of us buy many gifts for our loved ones. If you’re looking for gifts for yourself, though, you may be thinking of adding a promising growth stock to your portfolio. And if you’ve been paying any attention at all to the stock world over the past year, you may be wondering whether you should buy some shares of the semiconductor giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA).
The stock has been on fire — in a good way — for a long time, averaging annual gains of52% over the past 15 years and averaging 119% over the past three years. Better still, after all that torrid growth, it still seems reasonably valued, with a recent forward-looking price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of23 is well below the five-year average of 38.
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