If You Invested $1,000 In Nvidia Stock At IPO, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

Technology giant NVIDIA Corporation NVDA enters 2025 celebrating several milestones including record financial results, becoming the most valuable company and a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The company celebrates its IPO anniversary on Jan. 22. Here’s a look back at how much the lucky and perhaps wise investors who bought shares of Nvidia at IPO would have made.

Investing $1,000 in Nvidia at IPO: Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world in May 2023, passing the $1 trillion market capitalization level.

Since that time, the company went on to pass the $2 trillion and $3 trillion market capitalization levels. At the time of writing, Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world valued at $3.589 trillion, slightly ahead of Apple ($3.339 trillion).

Back in 1999, Nvidia held its initial price offering on Jan. 22, with shares priced at $12 each.

A $1,000 investment in the company would have been able to buy 83.33 shares at the time.

Since its IPO, Nvidia had several stock splits that increased the number of shares held by shareholders. The stock had 2:1 splits in 2000, 2001 and 2006, a 3:2 split in 2007, a 4:1 split in July 2021 and the most recent 10:1 split in June 2024.

Today, the original 83.33 shares would total 39,998.4 shares after the stock splits.

The original $1,000 investment in Nvidia stock would be worth $5,862,965.47 based on a share price of $146.58. This represents a huge return for Nvidia IPO buyers with some potential millionaires created over the years.

Here’s a look at the return of Nvidia since its IPO with a Benzinga Pro Chart below.

For comparison, the same $1,000 invested in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust VSPY, which tracks the S&P 500, would have underperformed Nvidia.

A $1,000 investment in SPY stock could have bought 12.82 shares at the time, based on an adjusted price of $78.03 on Jan. 22, 1999.

The $1,000 invested in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust would be worth $7,789.94 today.

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What Happened: Nvidia has been at the forefront of the AI revolution and growth as a leader in the sector, which helped boost the stock price over the last several years.

Since its was founded in 1993, Nvidia has sought to be at the forefront of technological advancements to help new industrial advancements.

In 1999, the company invented the Graphics Processing Unit, commonly known as GPU today. The GPU redefined the computer industry.

In 2012, Nvidia ushered in the modern era of AI with the AlexNet neural network, potentially showing the company ahead of others when it came to belief in the capabilities of artificial intelligence.

In March 2024. the company unveiled the Blackwell GPU, which could help the company further disrupt the growth of artificial intelligence.

What’s Next: Nvidia continues to draw praise from analysts as one of the best plays on the growth of artificial intelligence.

The big question for investors today is if Nvidia will keep outperforming the overall market and be one of the top-performing stocks going forward.

Nvidia beat analyst estimates in the third quarter for both revenue and earnings per share. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the continued growth of AI and the company’s new products seeing huge demand.

“The age of AI is in full steam, propelling a global shift to NVIDIA computing,” Huang said at the time.

Huang said countries have “awakened to the importance” of AI.

“AI is transforming every industry, company and country. Enterprises are adopting agentic AI to revolutionize workflows. Industrial robotics investments are surging with breakthroughs in physical AI.”

President Donald Trump has put an early emphasis on artificial intelligence, which could help boost the Nvidia share price over time. In 2017, Nvidia was the ninth best performing S&P 500 stock during Trump’s first year in the White House. Investors will be hoping Trump back in office is good for Nvidia and AI.

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This article was previously published by Benzinga and has been updated.

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