Nvidia Corporation

Nvidia Corporation sits at #2 globally in mid-November 2026 with a market capitalization between $3.92 trillion and $4.01 trillion, down 12.5% for the year as of November 12 following a steep pullback from its record $5.724 trillion peak on May 14, 2026. Founded in April 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem in Sunnyvale, California, the Santa Clara chipmaker appointed CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO on November 12, 2026. Originally built around GeForce GPUs for PC gaming, Nvidia became the primary hardware and software supplier for artificial intelligence training and inference through its CUDA platform and data-center accelerators. It became the first public company to surpass $4 trillion in July 2025 and $5 trillion in October 2025. Trailing 12-month revenue reached $303.0 billion with $226.2 billion in gross profit, maintaining a 74.67% gross margin. Nvidia ranks #2 at roughly $3.92 trillion to $4.01 trillion after peaking at $5.724 trillion in May 2026