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Around $140, Nvidia's price has increased by around 180% since January. But the performance since the January 1999 IPO has been even more spectacular. Attention! The initial price ($12) and the current price are not enough to calculate the performance garnered by early investors.
No less than six splits !
Between 2000 and 2024, the security was the subject of six “stock splits”, a common practice in the United States consisting of “cutting” a security into several securities of lesser value so that its price remains accessible. The subscriber of an IPO share today holds 480 of them if he has kept them, representing a value of $67,200 and a capital gain of 560,000%!
To put it another way, if you had invested $1,000 when it was put on the market, your line would now represent $5.6 million. An unbeatable retirement investment!
