The technology giant NVIDIA achieves an unprecedented milestone in the business world: it becomes the first company to achieve a $5 trillion market capitalization . This achievement would consolidate Nvidia as the most valuable listed company of all time, amid the expectations generated by the conversations between the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
The assault by the manufacturer of microprocessors and graphics cards at the level of 5 billion dollars has been ratified at the opening of Wall Street, with a rise of 4.4% to 209.84 dollars. The titles ended yesterday’s session at $201.3, which corresponded to a market value of more than $4.9 trillion.
Trading in Nvidia shares has become even more lively after Donald Trump’s comments aboard Air Force One praising the ‘Blackwell’ model of architecture for AIpointing out that he could talk to Xi Jinping about it, without giving more details.
Nvidia, whose shares will accumulate a revaluation of more than 45% in 2025, managed on July 9 to become the first company to reach a market value of 4 trillion dollars (3.43 trillion euros), after having reached 3 trillion dollars (2.57 trillion euros) in June 2024 and 2 trillion dollars (1.71 trillion euros) in February of last year.
Nvidia’s rally, fueled by AI fever, has led the company to quadruple the value of its shares in less than two years, thus crowning itself the most valuable company in the world.
In comparison, Microsoft and Apple, the other two American technology giants that second Nvidia as the most valuable companies, reached a market capitalization of 4 trillion dollars yesterday, while Alphabet, Google’s parent company, exceeded 3 trillion dollars in September.