Nvidia Corporation is represented by the stock-market symbol NVDA.
Nvidia trades on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker NVDA. A ticker symbol is a short identifier used by exchanges, financial data services, and investors to distinguish a publicly traded company. Nvidia's market capitalization is calculated by multiplying its share price by the number of outstanding shares, so changes in NVDA's price can quickly alter its position among the world's most valuable companies.
The company was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It first became widely known for graphics processing units, or GPUs, used in computer games. Its GPUs later became important for data centers, artificial intelligence, and scientific computing.
A common mix-up is spelling the ticker as “NVDIA,” reversing two letters in Nvidia's name. NVDA is the official symbol, while Nvidia is the company's brand and legal corporate name.