The American semiconductor giant Nvidia has just surpassed a market value of $4 trillion, becoming the first company in history to reach this significant milestone.
On Wednesday (July 8), as the stock price hit an all-time high, Nvidia surpassed tech giants Microsoft and Apple to be the first to achieve this market value milestone.
According to Google Finance data, the company's stock price rose about 2% in early trading, reaching a historical peak of $164.32, before slightly retreating to $163.36 in after-hours trading.
This surge in stock price was primarily driven by investors' strong confidence in the transformative potential of artificial intelligence, pushing the company's valuation to a historic high, followed by a slight pullback.
Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the number of outstanding shares by the current stock price. Nvidia has 24.4 billion shares outstanding, which means that based on the after-hours stock price, its market value has slightly retreated to $3.98 trillion.
Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth in New York, pointed out to Reuters that Nvidia's market value milestone highlights that "companies are shifting capital expenditures towards AI, which almost represents the future direction of technological development."
Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B Riley Wealth, told USA Today that the company initially started as a gaming chip manufacturer, then transformed into a cryptocurrency mining chip manufacturer, and now has become a giant in chip manufacturing for artificial intelligence computing power. He added, "The company is continuously moving forward and has become the undisputed early winner in the AI field."
Despite Nvidia losing $5.5 billion in valuation in early 2025 due to the rise of Chinese AI competitors and U.S. export restrictions, and experiencing a massive evaporation of $600 billion in market value in January, the company has shown strong rebound momentum.
The company's first-quarter financial report showed revenue exceeding $44 billion, with profits reaching $19 billion, a year-on-year increase of 26%.
Nvidia's stock price has risen 21.3% so far this year, significantly outperforming the U.S. benchmark index S&P 500, which has only risen 6.5% during the same period.
According to CompaniesMarketCap data, Microsoft ranks second globally with a market value of $3.74 trillion, while Apple ranks third with $3.15 trillion. Currently, only these three companies have market values exceeding $3 trillion.
In comparison, Bitcoin (BTC), which returned to its historical high on Wednesday, has a market value of $2.2 trillion, while the total market value of the entire cryptocurrency market is $3.53 trillion, even lower than that of Nvidia alone.
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Original: “Nvidia Becomes the First Company to Reach a $4 Trillion Market Cap, Thanks to the AI Boom”
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