By Keithen Drury, The Motley Fool
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 20:21:00
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the most exciting stocks to own since the AI arms race kicked off in early 2023. If you had invested $5,000 in Nvidia at that time, your position would now be worth $80,000. While Nvidia is too large today to repeat that type of 16x performance again, I do think it has plenty of upside.
Nvidia remains in a prime position to keep profiting from the massive AI build-out, and that boom is expected to last at least through 2030. This leaves plenty of time for Nvidia to deliver jaw-dropping returns, so investors shouldn’t be shy about investing $5,000 in the stock right now.
Missed AI’s “Act 1”? Act 2 Could Be 14x Bigger. Most investors think they missed the AI boat because they didn’t buy Nvidia in 2005. But according to our analysts, we’re only at the end of “Act 1″—the R&D phase. “Act 2” is the global rollout. Continue »
The AI build-out is only going to intensify
While various industries have been investing heavily in AI capabilities, the world has nowhere near the computing power required to undergird an AI-first economy. Bringing that much compute online will require years of massive build-outs, and Nvidia is one of the primary beneficiaries of this trend.
The company’s primary offerings are graphics processing units (GPUs) and other hardware and software to support their use. GPUs are powerful parallel processors that can handle a wide…
