What if you invested in Nvidia in 2015?
NVDA · Technology · Data through 2026-06-01
If you invested $1,000 in Nvidia in 2015
The same $1,000 in the S&P 500 would be worth $4,581(+358.1%)
The S&P 500 returned $4,581 on the same $1,000. Nvidia beat the market by $472,570.
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Year-by-Year Returns
$1,000 invested in Nvidia starting January 2015
| Year | Price | Value | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $0.46 | $1,000 | - |
| 2016 | $0.71 | $1,551 | +55.1% |
| 2017 | $2.69 | $5,836 | +276.3% |
| 2018 | $6.08 | $13,191 | +126% |
| 2019 | $3.56 | $7,736 | -41.4% |
| 2020 | $5.88 | $12,773 | +65.1% |
| 2021 | $12.95 | $28,117 | +120.1% |
| 2022 | $24.44 | $53,047 | +88.7% |
| 2023 | $19.52 | $42,365 | -20.1% |
| 2024 | $61.49 | $133,478 | +215.1% |
| 2025 | $120.03 | $260,556 | +95.2% |
| 2026 | $191.12 | $414,872 | +59.2% |
What this return means
Nvidia (NVDA) is one of the biggest winners on the site. That is a +47,615% total return, or roughly 477x your money, measured through 2026-06-01.
That is a compound rate of about 71% a year, an extreme pace that few holdings sustain for 11.5 years. By comparison the S&P 500 returned about $4,581 on the same stake, putting Nvidia ahead by close to $472,570. The index compounded at about 14.2% a year over that period.
The path was not smooth. The best single year was 2017 at +276.3%, and the worst was 2019 at -41.4%. At its lowest point the position was down about 41% from an earlier high. These figures use split-adjusted closing prices and exclude dividends, taxes, trading fees, and inflation, so a real after-tax result would differ.
None of this is a recommendation. It is a record of what already happened, and past performance does not guarantee future results.
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