The company’s shares have risen by 409,825% since its market debut in 1999 and show little sign of slowing down, even in the face of a threatened escalation in Donald Trump’s trade war.
Nvidia has become the first stock market-listed company to achieve a value of $4trn.
Its share price rose by more than 2% at the market open on Wall Street to reach the milestone moment.
It was achieved just over a year since Nvidia overcame the $3trn barrier and overtook Apple, in market cap terms, in the process.
The AI-focused chipmaker has been the darling of Wall Street for many years.
The value of its shares has risen by 409,825% since its market debut in 1999.
Its status has been cemented thanks to the rush for AI technology – suffering several wobbles along the way – but nothing significant when you refer to the percentage rise of the past 26 years.
The most recent pressures have come from the emergence of the low-cost chatbot DeepSeek and concerns for global AI demand as a result of Donald Trump’s trade war hitting growth.
