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Santa Clara-based chip giant Nvidia Corporation (NVDA) leads the semiconductor industry with a massive market cap of $2.3 trillion. Renowned for its high-speed graphics processing unit (GPUs), Nvidia serves gaming, data centers, and automotive markets. In mid-March, it unveiled Project Groot for humanoid robots, updated its Isaac platform, and launched Jetson Thor, showcasing its cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) innovations.
The mega-cap stock has significantly outperformed the broader market over the past 52 weeks. NVDA has gained 206.5% over this time frame, while the broader S&P 500 Index ($SPX) has rallied 27.5%. In 2024 alone, shares of NVDA are up 86.7%, compared to SPX's 11.2% gains on a YTD basis.