(News Bulletin 247) – The graphics processor specialist took the place of the world’s largest market capitalization this week. But other data perhaps better testify to the meteoritic trajectory of the group.

Nvidia seized a throne that sooner or later seemed promised to it. The graphics processor specialist became the largest market capitalization (the value of all of its shares) in the world this week, surpassing Microsoft on Tuesday. In other words, Nvidia is now the largest listed company in the world.

This symbolic achievement does not say everything about the company’s prodigious stock market surge, and especially the speed at which the stock has progressed. To give a broader (but not exhaustive) overview, we offer you a selection of eight telling figures.

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> Three months

That’s the incredibly short time it took for Nvidia to go from $2 trillion to $3 trillion in market cap. Founded in 1993 and listed on the stock exchange in 1999, the company exceeded 1,000 billion dollars in June 2023, 2,000 billion dollars at the end of February 2024, and 3,000 billion on June 6. Deutsche Bank also points out that the group has, since May 20, added 1,000 billion dollars in 23 sessions, an absolute record for gaining 1,000 billion dollars.

>+173%

This is the increase since January 1st

of Nvidia stock, by far the most important of Wall Street’s “Magnificent Seven” (Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet). This while the company had already gained 239% in 2023, according to Deutsche Bank, the largest increase in the S&P 500. And since the launch on November 30, 2022 of ChatGPT, the conversational robot at the origin of the boom in generative artificial intelligence and as a result of the jump in demand for Nvidia’s graphics processors, the action took… more than 700%.

>+628%

This is the increase in Nvidia’s profit in the last published quarter (the first of the 2024-2025 financial year), at $14.9 billion. Assuming that this profit is stable over the next three quarters, Nvidia would generate nearly $60 billion in profits over its entire financial year, almost three times more than Totalenergies, the CAC 40 group which generated the most of profits in 2023. Nvidia’s turnover jumped 262% over the same quarter. These data show one thing above all: that Nvidia’s rise in the stock market is linked to the improvement of its results and its prospects and is not based on sand.

>$293,526

That’s the amount an investor would have in their portfolio right now if they had purchased just $1,000 worth of Nvidia stock 10 years ago, according to our calculations based on data from investing.com. Better: if in 1999, during Nvidia’s IPO, he had invested the same amount ($1,000), his current portfolio would be valued at $2.76 million.

>1.2 times the Parisian market

The capitalization of Nvidia ($3,447 billion at the time of writing this article, Thursday) weighs more than all the shares listed on the Paris market. Nvidia is thus worth 1.2 times the entire Paris Stock Exchange, based on data from companiesmarketcap.com. And even 1.3 times the CAC 40. According to Deutsche Bank, Nvidia has also surpassed the entire London Stock Exchange, whereas exactly 10 years ago, the London market was worth 400 times more than Nvidia.

>$277 billion

This is one of the records that Nvidia holds, namely the strongest increase in its market capitalization over one session, that of February 22. The group gained 16% after revealing robust results and prospects for its fourth quarter. Nvidia then beat the previous record, held by Meta, with 197 billion dollars, which had been signed a few weeks earlier. On May 23, again after publishing results, Nvidia will this time add $218 billion in one session.

>+75 billion dollars

This progression simply corresponds to the increase in the fortune of Jensen Huang, the CEO and co-founder of Nvidia, since January 1, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index. Jensen Huang owns approximately 3.5% of Nvidia’s capital and is today the twelfth richest man in the world, with a fortune of $119 billion. Originally from Taiwan, the leader displays a rather unique, joking style, with a leather jacket. He has also built a real estate asset of $55 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. For the record, and again according to the American daily, he met his wife at university. It was his lab buddy.

>93%

That’s the percentage of analysts who recommend buying Nvidia stock, according to data compiled by investing.com. This is more than any CAC 40 group, according to the same source. 51 analysts are buying or equivalent on Nvidia, four are neutral. Their average price target is lower than the current share price, but analysts regularly raise their targets on the stock, taken by surprise by its speed of progress.