For most investors, how much a stock’s price changes over time is important. This factor can impact your investment portfolio as well as help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.
Another factor that can influence investors is FOMO, or the fear of missing out, especially with tech giants and popular consumer-facing stocks.
What if you’d invested in Nvidia (NVDA) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to NVDA for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?
Nvidia’s Business In-Depth
With that in mind, let’s take a look at Nvidia’s main business drivers.
Santa Clara, CA-based NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the graphics processing unit, or GPU. Over the years, the company’s focus has evolved from PC graphics to artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions that now support high-performance computing (HPC), gaming and virtual reality (VR) platforms.
NVIDIA’s GPU success can be attributed to its parallel processing capabilities supported by thousands of computing cores, which are necessary to run deep learning algorithms. The company’s GPU platforms are playing a major role in developing multi-billion-dollar end-markets like robotics and self-driving vehicles.
NVIDIA is a dominant name in the Data Center, professional visualization and gaming markets, where Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are playing a catch-up role. The company’s partnership with almost all major cloud service providers (CSPs) and server vendors is a key catalyst.
NVIDIA’s GPUs are also getting rapid adoption in diverse fields ranging from radiology to precision agriculture. The company’s GPUs power several supercomputers across the world.
NVIDIA reported revenues of $215.9 billion in fiscal 2026, up 65% from $130.5 billion in fiscal 2025.
NVIDIA reports revenues under two segments – Graphics and Compute & Networking. The company also provides platform disclosures that group results into Data Center and Edge Computing, with Data Center split between Hyperscale and AI Clouds, Industrial and Enterprise (ACIE).
Graphics (10% of FY26 revenue) includes GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro GPUs for enterprise design; and GRID software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing,
Compute & Networking (90%) comprises Data Center platforms and systems for AI, HPC, and accelerated computing; DRIVE for autonomous vehicles; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Jetson for robotics and other embedded platforms.
