Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has roared to the top of the charts when it comes to stock performance this year. The shares are heading for an increase of nearly 190% for the top performance in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the second-best performance in the Nasdaq 100, and the third-best performance in the S&P 500. And the reason for such gains is clear: Nvidia has built an empire in one of today’s hottest industries. I’m talking about artificial intelligence (AI), a market forecast to climb from $200 billion today to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.
The tech giant makes the powerful chips key to the development of AI projects along with a whole portfolio of related products and services. And this has helped revenue climb to record levels. It reached $35 billion in the recent quarter, a higher level than a full year of revenue just two years ago.
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Considering the company’s momentum, should you buy Nvidia before 2025? Evidence is piling up, and it’s favoring one particular answer.
But before we get to that, let’s look at Nvidia’s story so far. This company wasn’t always an AI giant. In their earlier days, Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs) powered video games — then, as it became clear their ability to handle many tasks at once would be useful in other areas, Nvidia made this possible. The company launched the parallel computing platform CUDA, and the GPU expanded its reach, soon becoming the star of the AI revolution.
In most of Nvidia’s recent quarters, the company’s earnings have climbed in the triple digits. In the latest quarter, that growth slowed to the double digits — but that’s not surprising considering comparison quarters have become quite difficult. For example, in the third quarter of last year, revenue already soared to $18 billion. In the recent third quarter, it advanced 94% from that level.
Importantly, this story isn’t only about revenue, but it’s also about profitability. Nvidia has shown its ability to generate high profit on sales, with a gross margin of more than 70%. And the company even predicts these wide margins will continue through the launch of its new Blackwell architecture in the coming weeks and months. This is impressive since product releases come with extra expenses and companies generally aren’t at their most cost-efficient levels during the initial stages.