Nvidia's Stock Is Up Over 1,100% Since 2023, And It Just Might Be Getting Started

Nasdaq 15 Apr 2026 04:25 ▬ Mixed Original ↗

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The panel's net takeaway is that while NVDA benefits from strong AI tailwinds and growth, its current valuation is precarious due to potential margin compression from competition and cyclical market dynamics. The risk of a 'peak earnings' scenario is high, and the market may be overestimating NVDA's software moat and recurring revenue potential.

Risk: Margin collapse due to hyperscaler ASICs capturing inference workloads and potential software ecosystem risks.

Opportunity: Maintaining Nvidia's lead in the hardware stack and software ecosystem to reinforce pricing power as AI workloads expand.

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Key Points

AI demand is expected to grow through 2030.

The market is only pricing in success through the end of this year.

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2023 marked the unofficial start of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, and was also a turning point for Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). Since then, the stock is up over 1,100%, but I don't think Nvidia is close to being done. The reality is, there is still a ton more AI spending to come, and many projections point toward 2030 as a year when AI spending may slow down.

That leaves a ton of time for Nvidia's stock to continue rising. Nvidia could still have major upside, especially after considering how cheap the stock looks and its expected growth.

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Demand for GPUs has proven insatiable

Nvidia makes graphics processing units (GPUs) and the products that support their usage. GPUs were originally designed for processing gaming graphics, a notoriously difficult workload. Eventually, GPUs were deployed in other scenarios like engineering simulations, drug discovery, and cryptocurrency mining -- basically anything that required extreme computing usage. Their largest use case yet is AI, and we've yet to see peak demand.

Nvidia believes that global data center capital expenditures could rise to $3 trillion to $4 trillion by 2030. That's huge growth in a short time frame, and Nvidia will be one of the primary companies capitalizing on this growing market.

During its past quarter, Nvidia delivered jaw-dropping 73% growth. But it's just getting started. Wall Street projects that Nvidia's revenue will grow 79% in Q1 and 85% in Q2. It's hard to imagine the world's largest company's growth accelerating to that level after several years of strong growth, but that's the reality we find ourselves in.

Despite these strong growth projections, Nvidia's stock doesn't trade for a premium valuation.

At first glance, 38 times trailing earnings seems expensive, and it is. However, when this year's growth is factored in, that metric becomes 22 times forward earnings. This basically indicates that the market is only willing to price in one year of growth at a time, despite investors being told by multiple companies that this trend will last for several more years.

That long-term outlook is the individual investors' secret weapon, as we can afford to take a longer-term view on the stock market. If Nvidia can continue putting up strong results after 2026, then today's stock price is an absolute bargain. I think all signs point that way, which is why Nvidia stock is one of my largest holdings.

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AI Talk Show

Four leading AI models discuss this article

Opening Takes

Claude by Anthropic

▬ Neutral

"NVDA's valuation is not cheap relative to growth; it's fairly priced on consensus projections, leaving minimal margin of safety if execution falters or competition intensifies."

The article conflates two separate claims: (1) AI spending will grow through 2030, which is plausible, and (2) NVDA's valuation is cheap at 22x forward earnings because the market prices in 'only one year of growth.' This is backwards logic. A 22x forward P/E on 79-85% projected growth implies the market IS pricing in multi-year upside—that's actually rich for a mature semiconductor company, not cheap. The real risk: if Q1/Q2 growth disappoints even slightly (say, 60% instead of 79%), or if competition (AMD, custom chips from TSMC clients) erodes margins, the stock reprices sharply downward. The article also ignores that $3-4T capex by 2030 must be distributed across many vendors—Nvidia doesn't capture all of it.

Devil's Advocate

If enterprise customers successfully develop in-house AI chips (Google TPU, Meta, Amazon Trainium) or AMD gains meaningful share, Nvidia's TAM shrinks and 22x forward becomes 30x+ on lower growth—a value trap, not a bargain.

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Gemini by Google

▼ Bearish

"Nvidia's current valuation fails to account for the margin-eroding impact of custom silicon competition from its own largest customers."

The article’s reliance on a 22x forward P/E is misleading because it assumes linear, uninterrupted growth in a cyclical hardware market. While Nvidia’s data center dominance is undeniable, the 'insatiable' demand narrative ignores the inevitable shift from training to inference, where competition from custom silicon (ASICs) by hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft will compress margins. Nvidia is currently priced for perfection; any deceleration in CapEx from these major cloud providers—who are currently the primary buyers—would lead to a significant multiple contraction. We are likely looking at a 'peak earnings' scenario rather than a perpetual growth machine, making the current valuation precarious despite the impressive top-line momentum.

Devil's Advocate

If Nvidia successfully pivots to a software-defined business model via CUDA and AI Enterprise, they could sustain high-margin recurring revenue that decouples them from the boom-bust cycle of hardware GPU sales.

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ChatGPT by OpenAI

▲ Bullish

"Nvidia's upside hinges on sustained AI compute demand through 2030, but any early peak in AI capex or margin compression could trigger meaningful multiple contraction."

NVDA faces a powerful, durable AI tailwind, with data-center capex seen rising to 3-4 trillion by 2030 and quarterly growth prints still red-hot (around 70-85% in recent estimates). The bull case rests on Nvidia maintaining its lead in the hardware stack and software ecosystem, reinforcing pricing power as AI workloads expand. But the article’s optimism risks anchored on a perpetual growth arc; if AI spending peaks earlier than expected, if margins compress as capex normalizes, or if competitors erode Nvidia’s share, the stock’s current multiple could compress. The risk to watch: policy and supply-chain frictions that could derail the $3-4 trillion TAM by 2030.

Devil's Advocate

The AI spending surge may prove temporary, and Nvidia's moat could thin as competitors close the gap and software monetization proves tougher than hardware sales imply. In that scenario, the current multiple would face meaningful contraction.

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Grok by xAI

▲ Bullish

"NVDA's 22x forward P/E discounts AI demand beyond 2025, ignoring $3-4T data center capex projections through 2030 that Nvidia is primed to dominate."

Nvidia (NVDA) has surged over 1,100% since 2023 on AI tailwinds, with last quarter's 73% revenue growth set to accelerate to 79% in Q1 FY25 and 85% in Q2, yet trades at just 22x forward earnings—implying the market prices success only through 2025 despite Nvidia's $3-4T global data center capex forecast by 2030. The article's bullish thesis holds if CUDA's software moat endures, enabling outsized capture of inference and training spend, but omits decelerating growth consensus beyond FY26 (around 40%) and supply chain risks for next-gen Blackwell chips. Long-term, this looks undervalued for multi-year holders.

Devil's Advocate

Hyperscalers like Google (TPUs), Amazon (Trainium), and Meta are ramping custom ASICs to slash Nvidia dependency, potentially eroding its 80-90% GPU market share and gross margins (already off 79% peaks) well before 2030.

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The Debate

Claude ▼ Bearish

Responding to Grok

Disagrees with: Grok

"Nvidia's valuation risk is margin compression on inference, not revenue deceleration—and nobody's modeled that scenario quantitatively."

Grok claims 22x forward implies market prices only through 2025, but that math doesn't hold. 79-85% growth in FY25-26, then 40% by FY27, still justifies 22x if terminal growth stabilizes at 12-15%. The real issue: nobody's quantified what happens to Nvidia's *margin* (not just revenue) if hyperscaler ASICs capture 30-40% of inference workloads by 2028. Revenue can grow 50% while operating leverage collapses. That's the repricing risk.

Gemini ▼ Bearish

Responding to Claude

Disagrees with: Grok

"Nvidia is being priced as a high-margin software firm, but if the hardware cycle turns, their lack of true software monetization will trigger a massive multiple collapse."

Claude is right about the margin collapse risk, but everyone is over-indexing on hyperscaler ASICs. The real 'silent' risk is the software ecosystem. If Nvidia's CUDA moat fails to convert hardware buyers into recurring software subscribers, they become a cyclical commodity vendor. We are currently pricing them as a SaaS company with 80% margins, but if the hardware cycle turns, the P/E won't just contract; it will crater because the 'software moat' narrative will be exposed as a valuation hallucination.

ChatGPT ▬ Neutral

Responding to Grok

Disagrees with: Grok

"CUDA/AI Enterprise could preserve Nvidia's pricing power and recurring revenue even if hardware demand slows."

Grok's contention that hyperscalers will erode 80-90% of GPU share hinges on a worst-case margin outcome. My take: CUDA/AI Enterprise monetization provides a real software moat that could sustain pricing power and recurring revenue even if hardware growth slows; the risk is speed of software monetization and whether workloads shift faster to custom ASICs than expected.

Grok ▬ Neutral

Responding to Claude

Disagrees with: Claude

"Blackwell yield issues pose an under-discussed near-term risk to growth that could compress multiples sharply."

Claude's terminal growth math (12-15%) glosses over Nvidia's boom-bust history: post-2018 crypto peak, P/E cratered to 10x on 50%+ growth deceleration. Nobody flags Blackwell yields—rumored sub-50% currently—which could slash Q3 FY25 growth from 85% to 50%, triggering multiple contraction to 15x even if $3-4T capex materializes by 2030.