The best performing magnificent 7 company, the semiconductor giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) impressed yet again with its latest earnings report, published after the closing bell on Wednesday, May 22.
The report helped send the already expensive shares rocketing another 9% within 24 hours and broke a week of stagnation. This most recent stock market action helped Nvidia stock price today to stand at $1052.02.
The valuation of NVDA shares is, however, set to change dramatically by June 7, with them, following the date, set to be worth approximately $100 each.
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The dramatic drop in price of each individual share, however, will not be a result of some semiconductor calamity but will rather stem from the blue-chip chipmaker’s decision to make a 10-for-1 stock split.
The split will leave the total valuation of the company intact – and, likewise, the value of each investor’s holding – but will increase the total number of NVDA shares tenfold from approximately 2.5 million to about 25 million.
This will be the company’s sixth split on record as Nvidia concluded 2-1s in years 2000, 2001, and 2006, a 3-for-2 in 2007, and, finally, a 4-for-1 in 2021.
While such moves were historically significant as they made it easier for investors to gain exposure to previously prohibitively expensive stocks, the impact is largely psychological in 2024, given that most brokers now offer fractional ownership.
Nonetheless, the stock split is likely only to boost the already very strong NVDA stock.
NVDA stock price chart
The news of the stock split – effective June 7 – comes at the heels of more than 18 months of exceptionally strong performance for Nvidia. Indeed, the company’s shares have been on a nearly unbroken rise ever since the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom started in late 2022 with the initial release of ChatGPT.
Since then, the stock is up approximately 650%, while in the last 52 weeks, it surged 176.40%. Additionally, NVDA is as much as 118.37% in the green in the year-to-day (YTD) chart.
Finally, the more recent performance has also been strong given that, despite the relative stagnation in the last full week of trading, Nvidia is up 31.68% in the last months, and 9.11% in the last 5 days.
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