When the curtain closed on 2024, investors were all smiles. The mature stock-driven Dow Jones Industrial Average, benchmark S&P 500, and growth-fueled Nasdaq Composite ended last year higher by 13%, 23%, and 29%, respectively.

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.

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.

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.