Can Nvidia Still Turn Patient Investors Into Millionaires?
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Ask the question "Could this stock be a millionaire-maker?" about most trillion-dollar companies, and the honest answer has to be "Probably not." Ask it about Nvidia ( NVDA +3.90% ) , whose market cap of roughly $4.7 trillion makes it the most valuable company on the planet , and the answer gets more interesting: Yes, it still can -- but you'll have to bring a lot of cash to the table. Let's be blunt about the size problem, because it's the whole story. To turn a $10,000 stake into $1 million, Nvidia would need to rise by around 100-fold. Over the past 10 years, it has more than done that. But for a company that is now already worth more than the entire German stock market, repeating the trick would imply a market cap somewhere north of $470 trillion -- larger than every public company on Earth combined today. That is not going to happen in one lifetime, and no amount of AI -related enthusiasm changes the arithmetic. So the millionaire path here isn't leverage. It's the size of your commitment. A patient investor who puts $200,000 into Nvidia and watches it quintuple over a decade -- a demanding result, but not a fantastical one for a dominant franchise -- would arrive at a seven-figure holding. The stock can still make you rich. It just asks you to already be fairly wealthy to start with, or to invest heavily and wait a long time.
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