Nvidia operates the Nasdaq-listed stock ticker NVDA. Nvidia’s shares are widely followed because the company became one of the world’s most valuable companies during the rapid expansion of artificial-intelligence computing.
Nvidia began as a graphics-chip designer, but its graphics processing units became important for parallel computing, data centers, scientific workloads, and machine-learning systems. Its CUDA software platform also helped developers use Nvidia hardware for general-purpose computing, strengthening the company’s position beyond traditional video games.
A stock ticker is an exchange symbol used to identify a company’s publicly traded shares; it is not the same thing as a company’s legal name or market capitalization. Nvidia shares trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The company’s market value can change daily with its share price, earnings expectations, demand for data-center products, and broader investor sentiment about artificial intelligence.