Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) soared after the AI chipmaker reported yet another quarter of staggering revenue and earnings growth 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:amid booming demand for its semiconductors. 

Thursday’s gains tacked more than $221 billion onto Nvidia’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:market capitalization, in the second-largest daily gain on record. The only instance of a bigger one-day jump was when Nvidia shares surged more than 16% after its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report in February, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:adding $272 billion to its market value. 

Shares rose again Friday, climbing 2.6% to $1,064.69 and bringing Nvidia’s market cap gain this week to more than $338 billion. That's larger than the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:gross domestic products (GDPs) of most countries, the market values of most compani🍸es, and ꧂the budgets of most U.S. government agencies.

Putting $338 Billion in Perspective

For a better sense of how Nvidia's earnings-fueled gain in market cap this week stacks up, $338 billion is:

• About equal to the entire market cap of Oracle (ORCL), the 20th largest company in the S&P 500
• $70 billion more than the market value of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), one of Nvidia’s largest competitors in the AI chip market
• More than the combined market value of Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs (GS), two of America’s largest investment banks
• About half a year’s worth of sales at Walmart (WMT), the world’s largest company by revenue
• More than the GDP of Chile, and all but 43 countries, according to the most recent available data from the World Bank
• Twice the Department of Homeland Security’s annual budget
• More than Nvidia itself was worth as recently as November 2022