Check out how magnificently Nvidia (NVDA 3.58%) stock has performed in recent years:
|
Time period |
Average annual return |
|---|---|
|
Past 1 year |
62.22% |
|
Past 3 years |
78.30% |
|
Past 5 years |
67.76% |
|
Past 10 years |
68.93% |
|
Past 15 years |
50.68% |
Source: Data from Morningstar.com as of June 2, 2026.
That’s enough to turn a single $10,000 investment into more than $130,000 over the past five years, or roughly $1.9 million over the past decade.
Image source: The Motley Fool.
That might have you wondering if you missed this boat. Surprisingly, the shares still seem attractively valued.
Check it out: Nvidia’s recent forward-looking price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.6 is well below its five-year average of 36.1. And its recent price-to-sales ratio of 21.5 is below its five-year average of 24. (Those price-to-sales numbers are steep!) Steep valuation measures can be justified, though, when a company is growing briskly.
Today’s Change
(-3.58%) $-7.97
Current Price
$214.85
Key Data Points
Market Cap
$5.4T
Day’s Range
$214.58 – $222.82
52wk Range
$138.83 – $236.54
Volume
5.3M
Avg Vol
166.9M
Gross Margin
74.15%
Dividend Yield
0.02%
In its recently reported first quarter, Nvidia posted revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% from the year-ago quarter. The company has found great success supplying chips to gobs of data centers that are facilitating artificial intelligence (AI) processing, and its first quarter also featured record data center revenue of $75.2 billion, up 92% year over year.
The future matters more than the past to investors, though, and on this count, too, Nvidia looks good — in part because it’s expanding in new directions, such as entering the central processing unit (CPU) market with a new chip. Its data center business is poised to keep profiting handsomely as well, as major tech companies are spending hundreds of billions on data center capital expenditures and are projected to spend trillions on it within a few years.
Given Nvidia’s market dominance, promising future, and attractive valuation, I think that it still has plenty of room to run. (The stock and/or the market could pull back in the short term, which is why I suggest maintaining a long-term focus.)
