Coming up just short of the 4% gain that the S&P 500 has enjoyed since the start of the year, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has risen only about 3.4% in 2025. It may feel unfamiliar to see the artificial intelligence (AI) superstar in this position considering it soared 171% in 2024 while the S&P 500 ripped more than 23% higher.

High-profile stock market stories tend to carry a stigma for investors in the sense that few know whether it’s best to trade these names or just hold them for the long haul. Today, the largest share of attention and capital is centered around the technology sector in the United States,

Nvidia (NVDA) is a Wall Street darling, a company that has defined trends and moved the rest of the market by itself. It earned its throne, first by revolutionizing gaming GPUs and then by seizing on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.