Nvidia on track to hit $1 trillion market cap when market opens

Nvidia on track to hit  trillion market cap when market opens


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Nvidia is on track to hit a $1 trillion market cap Tuesday, after pre-market trading propelled shares to $409 and signaled Nvidia’s imminent entrance into a small club of mostly technology companies.

Nvidia’s shares must hold above $404.86 to maintain that distinction.

The chipmaker’s shares rocketed last week, after posting quarterly earnings with top- and bottom-line numbers that significantly beat consensus estimates. Nvidia’s gain buoyed other chipmakers, with the notable exception of Intel, and was also fueled in part by estimates that were more optimistic than expected.

Significantly, Nvidia forecasted $11 billion in sales for the second quarter of 2024 alone. Expected sales were 50% higher than consensus estimates of $7.15 billion.

It’s been a banner year for chipmakers, parts of the tech industry and the Nasdaq, driven in part by the AI frenzy and the possibility of slowing Federal Reserve rate hikes. Alongside Nvidia, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft were also buoyed in last week’s trading.

Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, are critical to generative AI platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. The company has historically been a leader in the so-called “discrete” or standalone GPU field, but until recently, many consumers thought of GPUs as primarily used for intensive gaming.

The advent of crypto mining and AI has upended that belief, and GPU manufacturers and suppliers, including Nvidia, AMD and TSMC, have seen share prices rise significantly over the last few months.

By contrast, Intel, which struggled with inventory issues and development challenges, has been historically focused on the chip market for central processing units, or CPUs. The company hasn’t shared, comparatively, in the wave of investor interest.

Trillion-dollar market cap club

Symbol Name Market Value YTD % 2023 Est. Revenue (Billions)
AAPL Apple Inc. $2.759 Trillion 35.0 384,748.7
MSFT Microsoft Corporation $2.475 Trillion 38.8 211,434.1
GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A $1.587 Trillion 41.2 299,810.2
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $1.232 Trillion 43.0 559,661.3
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $1 Trillion (* premarket) 166.5 30,426.5

Source: FactSet

Nvidia’s expected market cap would place it alongside a handful of other companies, including Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, that have a $1 trillion market cap. Nvidia shares were already up 166.5% year-to-date prior to Tuesday’s trading action.

–CNBC’s Kif Leswing, John Melloy and Gina Francolla contributed to this report.



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