Nvidia’s shares trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker NVDA.
Nvidia Corporation is a major semiconductor and computing company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Its common stock is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, where the symbol NVDA identifies the company for trading and financial reporting.
Nvidia 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 personal computers and video games. Its GPUs later became central to data-center computing, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning workloads.
The ticker is sometimes confused with a company’s legal name or product brand. NVDA is simply the short exchange symbol for Nvidia’s publicly traded shares. Nvidia’s market capitalization has risen sharply as investors have valued its role in supplying chips and systems for AI infrastructure, making it one of the world’s most valuable companies.