Nvidia Surges To Five Trillion Milestone Buoyed By AI Growth And Strategic Stock Sales

Nvidia has cemented its place in technology history, achieving a record breaking £5 trillion market valuation this week. The landmark comes as CEO Jensen Huang concluded a series of planned stock sales totalling over £1 billion, epitomising the chipmaker’s commanding presence at the centre of the artificial intelligence revolution.

The final phase of Huang’s divestment concluded with the sale of 25,000 shares, marking the culmination of a plan initiated in March to reduce his holdings by up to 6 million shares by the end of the year. When Huang began his sales in late June, Nvidia shares were valued at approximately £865 million, escalating by over 40 percent as insatiable demand for AI processors propelled the company’s share price ever higher.

Huang, now the world’s ninth richest individual with a fortune estimated at £175.7 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, retains a stake of 3.5 percent in Nvidia. Over the course of the year, he has also donated shares valued at more than £300 million to charitable causes via his foundation and donor advised funds.

Nvidia leads the market in the design and manufacture of high performance GPUs, providing the backbone for AI infrastructure across major cloud services and technology giants. Dominating with over 90 percent market share in AI and advanced computing, the company reported revenue of £35.1 billion for its third fiscal quarter of 2025, a 94 percent rise year on year. The firm’s Hopper computing platform and imminent launch of the Blackwell architecture are fuelling anticipation among investors and customers alike.

The dramatic rise in Nvidia’s valuation has produced three new billionaires within its executive ranks this year and has had a knock on effect for suppliers such as SK Hynix, whose production slots for AI memory chips are currently fully booked through 2026. Major financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs which recently lifted its price target for Nvidia shares to £240, are forecasting further gains as the company prepares to deliver its next earnings report in mid November.

Even political and financial circles are feeling the impact. Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s £5 million investment in Nvidia has reportedly soared to £21.5 million, yielding a windfall substantially in excess of a typical lifetime of congressional pay. Analysts and market participants now look to Nvidia’s strategy for international expansion and new product launches as potential drivers of future growth for the technology sector globally.