Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) inventory has gained sufficient over the previous 15 years to have minted many millionaires. We’re speaking a couple of achieve of 33,000%!
To place that mind-boggling determine into context, any investor who put £5k into Nvidia again then and held on for the trip would have over £1.5m right now. Really, I calculate it will be nearer £1.9m as a result of the pound has misplaced worth in opposition to the greenback since 2011.
After all, in actuality, most traders would by no means maintain a inventory this lengthy. It takes a number of braveness to maintain holding your winners, yr after yr. Somebody who will get anxious when a inventory turns into expensive would have offered Nvidia many moons in the past.
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Blowing a raspberry to different FTSE 250 shares
Sadly, traders don’t have many UK tech shares to select from. However Raspberry Pi (LSE:RPI) is one which has been touted as a possible home tech large within the making.
May this be one other Nvidia-type inventory to mint millionaires?
Properly, trying on the current current share worth efficiency, it has definitely made some traders some huge cash this month. Because the first week of February, this FTSE 250 inventory has soared 77%.
This makes it the best-performing mid-cap share in 2026 to this point. But even after the sudden rise, it’s down 30% over the previous yr.
Similarities
Wanting on the firm, I do see some similarities to Nvidia. The obvious is that the agency makes computing {hardware}, particularly low-cost single-board computer systems. Assume credit-card sized computer systems, microcontrollers, and equipment which might be utilized by faculties, hobbyists, and for industrial management programs.
Each companies are additionally run by founders — Eben Upton at Raspberry Pi and Jensen Huang at Nvidia. And the businesses are very modern in their very own respective tech fields.
Moreover, the UK agency’s merchandise are being deployed throughout varied industries. This jogs my memory of Nvidia, whose GPUs are used to energy gaming graphics, AI massive language fashions, self-driving vehicles, humanoid robots, and far else.
Beneath are the markets by which Raspberry Pi’s merchandise will be discovered.
Supply: Raspberry Pi
Talking of AI, the inventory has surged not too long ago because of the know-how. Clusters of its low cost mini-computers are getting used for sure AI initiatives. For instance, its new Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 product provides the aptitude to run generative AI fashions on units.
Key distinction
Then again, the 2 companies are worlds aside. And I don’t simply imply in measurement, with Nvidia the world’s largest listed firm versus Raspberry Pi’s modest £900m market cap.
No, Nvidia is on the coronary heart of the worldwide AI revolution, whereas Raspberry Pi is sort of actually on the edge. This yr, the US chip large’s anticipated to development income 54% and earnings over 65%. In distinction, Raspberry Pi’s top-line development is forecast at 15%, with earnings dipping decrease.
So, regardless of being infinitely bigger, Nvidia can also be rising a lot sooner. To turn out to be a tech large, Raspberry Pi must be rising quite a bit sooner than it’s right now.
Whereas gross sales may speed up in future, it’s at the moment going through provide chain dangers, which threaten development.
In the meantime, Nvidia’s contending with rising competitors from AMD and Broadcom. Nevertheless, with the inventory buying and selling at 30 occasions ahead earnings versus Raspberry Pi’s 55, I believe Nvidia is the superior development inventory and value contemplating right now.
