"After 11 Years, My Nvidia Shares Grew 340 Times"
A Japanese Investor Earned 4.7 Billion KRW by Holding Long-Term
"He Maintained 'This Principle' Since Starting His Investment"
A Japanese individual has attracted attention by revealing that he held Nvidia shares without selling them for 11 years. He amazed many by verifying his account with a profit of 500 million yen (approximately 4.6 billion KRW).
On the afternoon of the 6th, one day before the opening of CES 2025, the world's largest consumer electronics and information technology (IT) exhibition, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, delivered the keynote speech at the Michelob Ultra Arena inside the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (local time). Photo by Yonhap News
On the 7th, a photo verifying the Nvidia stock account of a Japanese netizen named A was posted on the social networking service X (formerly Twitter).
He invested 1.5 million yen (about 13.8 million KRW) in 2013 and bought Nvidia shares at $0.56. As of the 6th, Nvidia’s stock price rose to $149, and the total profit increased about 340 times over 11 years. The profit A posted amounts to a whopping 500 million yen (about 4.63 billion KRW).
Nvidia, considered the leading AI (artificial intelligence) chip company, had a stock price below $1 until 2015 but began to surge starting in 2018 as the cryptocurrency market heated up. After reaching $14 in November 2020, it rose to $32 in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In September 2022, the stock price dropped to as low as $12.52, but A did not sell his Nvidia shares. Afterwards, Nvidia’s stock price followed an upward trend and surpassed $147 in November 2024. When asked why he invested in Nvidia, A said, "Ten years ago, when I invested, I was simply an engineer who liked Nvidia," adding, "Because I liked it, I kept following it and gradually became familiar with stock investment, which led to this outcome."
Netizens who saw the news left comments such as "Holding on wins," "You endured for 11 years? Did you go to jail?" "With that kind of persistence, he probably won’t sell until he dies," "At this point, it’s true that he put it in and forgot about it," "Most people would sell even if it doubled, amazing," and "Life turnaround. Jackpot," expressing envy.
A Japanese person who revealed that they held Nvidia stock for 11 years shared a verified account photo. X
Earlier, in 2023, A shared the secret to holding Nvidia shares for nearly 10 years. He first said, "At that time, I didn’t even know about Warren Buffett’s existence, but Nvidia stock perfectly fit Warren Buffett’s famous sayings," and "Nine years ago, I was working with deep learning, and I was amazed by the compatibility with Nvidia’s graphics processing unit (GPU) when running it, especially its parallel processing capability."
He continued, "Nvidia was ahead of other companies not only in consumer products but also in server use and software packages like CUDA, so I could personally understand that it had the potential to become one of the central companies in the AI business." He added that after starting the investment, he set and followed principles such as 'dividing accounts by purpose and not checking long-term investment accounts daily,' 'never engaging in ultra-short-term trading that doesn’t suit my personality,' and 'basically not jumping on trends after they become popular.'
Meanwhile, the market outlook for Nvidia remains bullish. Experts focus on the fact that the AI era has just begun and predict that Nvidia’s stock price will continue to rise. In particular, the U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley named Nvidia the "best recommended stock for 2025." Analyst Joseph Moore described some concerns surrounding Nvidia as "exaggerated" and evaluated that it "has secured strong growth momentum." Bank of America predicts that the AI accelerator market size will exceed $400 billion.
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