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Nvidia Stock Could Surge by 2028: Here's How Beginners Can Get In Now According to Motley Fool's Price Estimates
It's not too late to buy Nvidia.
By Jeremy Bowman – Sep 23, 2026 at 12:00AM EST
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If you're a beginning investor, Nvidia is a smart stock to own.
The AI chip giant looks cheap given its growth prospects.
Most brokerages allow investors to purchase fractional shares.
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Even if you're a total novice to the stock market, you've probably heard of Nvidia (
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Nvidia is now the most valuable company in the world, worth more than $5 trillion. Its chips have formed the backbone of the AI revolution, and the top AI labs and cloud computing platforms rely on them to make AI applications run.

If you were fortunate enough to buy Nvidia a decade ago and hold it, you would have made a huge return as the stock is up more than 14,000% during that time. That means a $1,000 investment in Nvidia would now be worth more than $14,000.

The stock won't do that again over the next decade, but it still looks poised to soar by 2028. Here's how I see it.

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Nvidia is still cheap

There's a lot of jargon in investing, but one of the most important concepts that beginning investors can learn is the price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E ratio. This is a company's price per share divided by its earnings per share.

Newbie investors often think that a stock's share price determines whether it is cheap or not. For instance, a $10 stock would be cheap and a $500 stock would be expensive, but the share price alone isn't really meaningful.

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Owning a share of a stock is a claim on its earnings, so what really matters is how much earnings you get relative to the price of the stock. That's the P/E ratio. The lower it is, the cheaper the stock.

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Nvidia now trades at a P/E of 29, which is slightly higher than the S&P 500's P/E ratio of 25. The S&P 500, an index that holds 500 of the biggest U.S. stocks, is generally seen as the market average. According to the numbers above, Nvidia is a bit more expensive than the S&P 500. However, the P/E ratio is backward-looking, and stocks are priced based on future earnings or cash flows.

Because of its central position in the AI boom, Nvidia is growing much faster than the S&P 500. Wall Street expects the company to grow revenue by 91% this year and 66% next year. For fiscal 2028, which ends in January of that year, Nvidia is expected to have earnings per share of $15.68.

Based on that forecast, the stock trades at 14.6x next year's earnings. or a forward P/E of 14.6. If Nvidia maintains its current P/E ratio and hits that EPS forecast, the stock would double in less than a year and a half.

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How to buy Nvidia stock

If you're new to investing and you want to buy Nvidia stock, you'll first need a brokerage account if you don't already have one. You can open one up with a platform like Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley, or Charles Schwab. There are a lot of options for brokers.

Nvidia is currently trading around $228 a share, so you'll need that much to buy one share. However, many brokerages now offer fractional share purchasing, meaning you can buy a fraction of a share of Nvidia, allowing you to get ownership for less than the price of a share. Once you have an account, you'll need to search for the stock using the ticker, NVDA, and then choose an order type. Using a market order will execute the trade immediately and is the easiest way to buy a heavily traded stock like Nvidia. If you want to set a maximum price you're willing to pay, you can use a limit order.

Keep in mind that while Nvidia's future looks promising and the numbers favor continued gains in the stock, there is always risk in stock investing. There is no guarantee that the stock will go up between now and 2028. With any investment, it's a good idea to keep a long-term view and continue to follow the stock. Don't just buy and forget. If things change, you may want to sell.

Still, I think the odds are in your favor. As long as the AI boom continues over the next two years, Nvidia looks well-positioned to be a winner.

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Nvidia's stock has been growing like gangbusters in recent years.

The stock still seems undervalued.

There's plenty of reason to expect continued growth from the giant chipmaker.

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Semiconductor giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a hot stock for some time now -- for good reason. It has averaged annualized gains of 52% over the past 15 years. That was enough to turn a single $10,000 investment 15 years ago into a stake worth $5.9 million (with dividends reinvested) or $5.4 million (without the reinvestment of dividends).

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What if you buy into it today, though? How big could your stake in it become by, say, 2030? Let's take a look.

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Time for a little math

Let's start with a caveat: Whatever estimate we come up with will be just that -- an estimate. It will be based on the stock's growth rate -- which over the past three years has averaged nearly 70% per year! Over the past one year, it has gained nearly 20%. (That 20% might seem puny, but remember that over many decades, the stock market has averaged annual gains of close to 10%. So a 20% gain is still pretty good.)

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But how quickly will Nvidia grow over the coming four years? Well, let's pick a number between that 20% and the longer-term rate of 52%. Let's say 30%.

The stock recently traded at about $214 per share. If it gains 30% annually for four years, it will end up priced around $611 per share. That would be a total gain of 185.6%. Under that scenario, if you put $10,000 into it now, by September 2030, your stake would be worth about $28,560 -- and that's without counting or reinvesting its dividends, which are currently $0.25 per share quarterly.

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