This Stock Quietly Outperformed Nvidia In 2025, and I Think It Will Keep Beating It

This Stock Quietly Outperformed Nvidia In 2025, and I Think It Will Keep Beating It

By Daniel Sparks
Publication Date: 2025-12-29 17:00:00

Key Points

  • Interactive Brokers has quietly outperformed Nvidia stock in 2025 — and it may do so over the next five years, too.

  • The growth stock has risen about 50% this year.

  • Falling interest rates are a risk Interactive Brokers investors will have to keep an eye on.

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Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR) has quietly outpaced one of the market’s most talked-about winners in 2025. As of this writing, Interactive Brokers’ stock has risen about 50% in 2025, beating AI (artificial intelligence) chipmaker Nvidia‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) 42% gain.

That comparison is useful because it highlights something investors can miss when attention is concentrated in one corner of the market: You don’t always need the hottest market darlings to earn market-beating returns. Interactive Brokers is doing it by compounding client accounts and scaling its low-cost online brokerage model.

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But can Interactive Brokers continue to outperform Nvidia stock going forward?

I think so — and here’s why.

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Incredible momentum

Interactive is seeing strong growth in its business across essentially every key metric.

To get a glimpse of just how well the company is doing, just take a look at its third-quarter results. Attracted to…