Though Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a top performer in the stock market in the past couple of years, shares of the semiconductor giant have lost momentum since the release of its fiscal 2025 third-quarter results in November last year.

Shares of chipmaker Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) have soared more than 2,400% in just the past five years. Can this still be an exceptional long-term investment, one that could potentially turn a $25,000 investment into more than $1 million over the long haul?

Nvidia ( NVDA -3.00%) dominated much of the conversation among investors in 2024 as the stock marched 171% higher for the year. That was for good reason, as revenue and earnings exploded, with many big tech companies scrambling to acquire Nvidia's advanced chips for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.

Nvidia still carries the stock-boosting power, but its strength may be waning as some investors wonder how long it will last. According to a recent Bloomberg report, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang’s praise of Samsung Electronics memory chip capabilities last Wednesday prompted a 3% jump in the company’s shares.

It’s hard to imagine any of Nvidia’s rivals being able to replicate the company’s magic 2024. In the third quarter of 2024, Nvidia reported revenue of $35.1 billion, marking

Nvidia (NVDA) is a technology company that focuses on designing and developing graphics processing units (GPUs) for high-performance computing. It also develops application programming interfaces (APIs) and is the market leader in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software.