It took Nvidia about six months to gain another 10% on its stock market value and break a new record. At the end of October 2025, the company known for its graphics cards exceeded 5 trillion dollars (5,000 billion, on a long scale). And on May 13, 2026, Nvidia reached 5.5 trillion (5.5 trillion).
Nvidia exceeds $5,000 billion in market capitalization
If for some Nvidia is mainly the designer of GeForce cards, it is in reality an activity that has become minor among the Greens (the nickname of Nvidia), even if the company is almost a monopoly in the field of dedicated graphics cards. The reason Nvidia is the first company to officially hit $5.5 trillion in stock market valuation is simple, and can be boiled down to one thing: ChatGPT. Since the arrival of chatbot in 2022, the value of Nvidia has increased fourteen-fold.
This is obviously a basic shortcut, but for some investors and the general public, Nvidia is above all the company which provides what is necessary for ChatGPT to operate, even if the majority of companies specializing in AI work with cards from the brand. There are obviously other chip suppliers, but Nvidia has a clear lead in this area, both on the hardware side and on the software side, with widely used APIs, such as CUDA.
The record of 5.5 billion dollars is probably not the last, because the AI bubble does not seem ready to burst, and this symbolic passage comes at the time when Jensen Huang, founder of the company, accompanies Donald Trump to China. It is therefore possible that the Chinese market, which no longer officially uses Nvidia cards, could finally regain access to new cards (such as Blackwell). Furthermore, the Nvidia share price could also move in a few days: the results for the first fiscal quarter of 2027 are expected on May 20 and Nvidia should announce revenues of around 78 billion. Results largely driven by everything related to data centers, which represents 91% of Nvidia’s sales.
If you want to (maybe) whine, imagine how much you could have made if you had bought Nvidia stock rather than a GeForce 3 in a Power Mac back in 2001…
25 years ago, Steve Jobs previewed the GeForce 3 on the Macworld stage
