NVIDIA Shares and Jensen Huang’s Wealth Continue to Skyrocket

Nvidia, a major U.S. tech company and a key player in the growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, is growing day by day. According to the details released by Nvidia on May 22, the company’s first-quarter performance this year greatly exceeded expectations.

Nvidia’s revenue for the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year reached $26 billion, a whopping 262% increase from the $7.192 billion recorded in the same period last year. This surprise performance, which far exceeded Wall Street’s initial projection of $24.69 billion, has taken the market by surprise.

Operating profit also increased to $16.9 billion, greatly surpassing last year’s $2.14 billion. This translates to an explosive growth of eight times in just one year. This too, significantly exceeded Wall Street’s projection of $12.83 billion.

Nvidia’s stock prices also soared as the company reported impressive performance. The price per share for Nvidia has been continuously rising since the announcement of the results. As of May 24, Nvidia’s stock closed at $1,064.69. Consequently, Nvidia’s market cap reached $2.619 trillion. It has been referred to as the hottest stock in various investor communities.

As a result, the personal wealth of Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, has also increased tremendously. According to industry sources, Huang’s wealth increased by $7.7 billion in just one day. Huang, who established Nvidia in 1993, holds a 3.5% stake in the company. As of May 24, according to the Billionaire Index surveyed by Bloomberg, his wealth is estimated to be around $91.3 billion.

Nvidia’s impressive performance and subsequent surge in stock prices have significantly boosted Huang’s wealth. Until May 31, 2019, just five years ago, Nvidia’s stock price hovered around $33.

Since then, as the AI industry expanded and expectations for Nvidia grew, not only in the U.S. but also globally, the company’s stock value has increased 30 times compared to five years ago. Consequently, the wealth of Huang also increased at the same rate of 30 times.

As a result, Huang is now ranked 17th among the world’s wealthiest individuals. His wealth is higher than that of the heirs of Walmart and Gautam Adani, an Indian tycoon. In addition, his signature leather jacket that he wears at every public appearance has become a symbol, with experts saying that Nvidia has transitioned from a rising company to a company with strong control.

Alongside the increase in Huang’s wealth, there has also been attention on Nvidia’s stake. Huang holds 3.5% of Nvidia’s stock, followed by Mark Stevens and Tench Coxe, who hold the largest individual stakes.

According to Yahoo Finance‘s securities portal as of March 31, Mark Stevens holds approximately $4.4 billion, while Tench Coxe holds approximately $4 billion. Both are directors on Nvidia’s board. Stevens is known as a venture capitalist and Coxe joined as a semiconductor designer at the time of Nvidia’s establishment.

Excluding Huang, the largest shareholders of Nvidia are all institutional investors. The institutions with the largest stakes are Vanguard at 8.7%, BlackRock at 7.4%, Fidelity at 4.7%, State Street at 3.7%, and Geode Capital at 2.1%. Combined, these institutions hold over 26% of Nvidia’s stake.

In addition, the fact that many Koreans are investing in Nvidia has also become a topic of discussion. According to the financial industry, as of May 23, Korean individual and institutional investors hold 0.38% of the overall stake in Nvidia. This puts Nvidia in second place after Tesla, which is the most preferred foreign stock investment by Koreans.

Many experts analyze that due to the high expectations for AI and advanced industries, as Korea possesses powerful semiconductor companies like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, such investment trends have emerged. Moreover, as Nvidia continues to report impressive performance, individual investors also seem to be actively participating in investments.

On another note, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are competing for the supply of HBM orders to Nvidia.