What this shows
A public IPO-to-entered-price illustration, with six stock splits applied once. This starts at the IPO, not at a private investment.
AI computing
NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s history connects graphics processing with accelerated computing and AI.
01 / YOUR SCENARIO
From IPO to your price.
Starting point: January 22, 1999 IPO · $12 per original share.
Use a price on the post–June 2024 share basis. CTM does not fetch or verify the price you enter. Look up a quote at NVIDIA ↗
Assumes no share-basis changes after Sep 19, 2026. Later corporate actions are unverified.
IPO → USER-ENTERED PRICE
NVIDIAPublic shares · NVDA
Bring a price. Explore the outcome.
Enter a share price and its date, then select Calculate. Six stock splits are accounted for.
$12 at IPO ÷ 480 = $0.025 on the June 2024 share basisAn IPO example, not a pre-IPO investment or verified current quote. Fractional share equivalents are illustrative; cash paid for fractional shares, dividends, fees and taxes are excluded. An IPO allocation or a sale at your price is not assumed.
See the IPO price, splits & calculation
Formula: (your amount ÷ $12) × 480 × your entered share price. The $12 IPO price is unadjusted; the split factor is applied once. This is price-only growth, not total shareholder return.
NVIDIA IPO date and offering price ↗
| Date | Split | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2000 | 2 for 1 | Issuer filing / disclosure ↗ |
| Sep 17, 2001 | 2 for 1 | Issuer filing / disclosure ↗ |
| Apr 6, 2006 | 2 for 1 | Issuer filing / disclosure ↗ |
| Sep 10, 2007 | 3 for 2 | Issuer filing / disclosure ↗ |
| Jul 19, 2021 | 4 for 1 | Issuer filing / disclosure ↗ |
| Jun 7, 2024 | 10 for 1 | Issuer filing / disclosure ↗ |
Reviewed through Sep 19, 2026. Prices before June 10, 2024 are not enabled. Calculations at later dates through today assume the reviewed share basis remains unchanged; later corporate actions have not been verified. Choose Save research to keep your inputs and result in your account.
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THE EVIDENCE, IN BRIEF
How does the NVIDIA IPO calculator handle stock splits?
It starts with NVIDIA’s unadjusted $12 IPO price on January 22, 1999 and applies six reviewed splits, a cumulative factor of 480, once. You supply the ending share price. The result excludes dividends, fees and taxes and is an IPO illustration, not a pre-IPO return.
| Observation | Published value · USD | Date and meaning | Original evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 IPO milestone | 12 public offer price per share | 1999-01-22 ipo date | NVIDIA Investor Relations ↗ Checked 2026-09-17 |
NVIDIA’s IPO reference ↗ · Split documents and dates appear in the calculator’s evidence section above.
WHEN YOU WANT TO GO DEEPER
The story behind NVIDIA
The endpoint matters
You supply a price on the June 2024 split-adjusted share basis. It is not independently verified and may be hypothetical.
Read it realistically
Your amount is hypothetical. The evidence does not establish your investment minimum, eligibility or ability to sell.
Company at a glance & business milestonesThe graphics company behind an AI computing story.
NVIDIA’s history connects graphics processing with accelerated computing and AI.
- Origins
- Founded April 5, 1993
- Industry
- AI computing
- Founders
- Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem
- Calculation coverage
- 1999 IPO · splits through June 2024
NVIDIA began with a focus on 3D graphics for gaming and multimedia. Its later CUDA architecture opened GPU parallel processing to researchers. Those product milestones explain the business story, but they do not establish the terms of an early investment.
Company history ↗ · Corporate timeline: 1993, 2006 and 2012.
Historical context reviewed Sep 19, 2026. Business milestones are separate from the financial observations used by the calculator.
What investors faced & what remains unknownAccess, share terms, risks and the limits of this research.
Context to keep in mind
Later product success should not be read as something early investors could know in advance. No hypothetical pre-IPO return is supplied until the security evidence is reviewed.
CTM interpretation of the linked history and financing evidence; not a complete risk assessment.
What the evidence supports
The public IPO calculator uses the documented $12 offering price and a 480-for-1 cumulative split factor. You supply the ending price; it is not verified or fetched by CTM. A pre-IPO entry is still unverified.
- Investment minimum
- Not verified for these historical entries
- Actual access and allocation
- Not established
- Realized sale proceeds
- Not calculated
- Full funding history
- Not yet compiled; this is selected coverage
What additional research would unlock
A verified private entry is still needed for a pre-IPO model. A licensed quote source and ongoing corporate-action review would be needed for automated current-price results.
Research update · Sep 19, 2026
Added an IPO-to-user-entered-price calculator with six sourced split adjustments. No live quote is fetched.
Review dates describe our research. They do not turn historical prices into current quotes.Keep exploring
Financial observations & original sources1 sourced observations · expand to inspect each record
Milestones & evidence
1 sourced observationsIPO date
1999 IPO milestone
A · Documented transaction$12.00 USD
Issuer-reported original IPO price
Original 1999 share units. This single endpoint cannot establish a pre-IPO investment return; later stock splits must not be mixed with it.
Primary source checked
NVIDIA Investor Relations · Investor FAQs: initial public offering (opens in a new tab)Evidence details
- Publisher
- NVIDIA Investor Relations
- Source location
- When was NVIDIA’s initial public offering and what was the opening price?
- Share class
- Common
- Checked on
- Sep 17, 2026
- Observation ID
- NVDA-OFFER
What’s missing matters.
There are no daily private-market prices between these observations. We do not fill the gaps with an invented curve. Investment returns require the specific security, entry terms, dilution and an actual exit or appropriate mark.
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