As a leading chip maker (not the potato kind), Nvidia’s components are a key tool used for AI, meaning that most big tech companies rely on its technology. As a key player in the AI space, the uptick in this area has led to a massive increase for Nvidia’s stock price, making it one of the most valuable companies in the world with a multi-trillion-dollar valuation.
Buying Nvidia shares has been likened to owning shovels in an AI gold rush. However, it remains a volatile stock despite its monstrous valuation because it's priced for perfection. For example, Nvidia's stock experienced the largest single-day drop in stock market history in January 2025, plummeting $600 billion (about £475 billion) in response to the soaring popularity of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI rival, building LLM models cheap as chips. The share price did recover later in 2025, which just highlights Nvidia's volatile nature.
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June 1, 2026: At his Computex keynote in Taipei, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the RTX Spark Superchip, a Windows-on-Arm AI PC platform pairing a Blackwell GPU with a custom Grace Arm CPU and 128GB unified memory, with laptops from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, MSI and a Microsoft Surface Ultra arriving in autumn 2026.
May 20, 2026: Nvidia reported fiscal Q1 2027 results on 20 May: revenue rose 85% year-on-year to $81.62b (above the ~$79.2b consensus), with data-centre revenue of $39.1b, up 69%. CEO Jensen Huang said Blackwell sales were "off the charts." Shares slipped slightly after hours despite the beat.
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $211.8
| 1 week (2026-10-28) | 3.76% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2026-10-04) | -0.31% |
| 3 months (2026-08-04) | 6.78% |
| 6 months (2026-05-04) | 13.73% |
| 1 year (2025-11-04) | 24.08% |
| 2 years (2024-11-04) | 64.90% |
| 3 years (2023-11-04) | 365.81% |
| 5 years (2021-11-04) | 191.56% |
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, let alone a "Magnificent 7" stock, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the NVIDIA P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.
NVIDIA's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 26x. In other words, NVIDIA's shares trade at around 26x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of March 2025 (25.37).
However, NVIDIA's P/E ratio is best considered in relation to those of others within the industry or those of similar companies.
NVIDIA's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.2464. A PEG ratio below 1 can be interpreted as meaning the shares are not overvalued given the current rate of growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into NVIDIA's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
However, it's sensible to consider NVIDIA's PEG ratio in relation to those of similar companies.
NVIDIA's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $201.3 billion (£149.1 billion).
The EBITDA is a measure of NVIDIA's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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