Nvidia (NVDA 0.48%) stock is up another 6% so far in 2026, putting shares on pace for another double digit performance this year. Since going public in 1999, this GPU stock has soared in value by nearly 500,000!

The company could continue its growth for many more decades. Over the next few years, more than $7 trillion is expected to be spent on building new artificial intelligence data center infrastructure — infrastructure that heavily uses Nvidia’s chips.

A rapidly rising stock price has forced Nvidia to conduct stock splits in the past in an effort the make the price of a single share more manageable. In 2000, the company conducted its first split: a 2-for-1 stock swap. More stock splits were triggered in 2001, 2006, 2007, 2021, and…