Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is among the most carefully watched firms on the planet. It was as soon as primarily often known as a high provider of gaming GPUs for PCs, but it surely subsequently advanced into the dominant producer of high-end knowledge heart GPUs.

Nvidia now generates most of its income from its knowledge heart GPUs, and demand for these chips continues to be outstripping provide as the synthetic intelligence () market expands. That is why its inventory rallied greater than 3,000% over the previous 5 years, and why it is thought of a linchpin and bellwether of the AI trade.

Nvidia may nonetheless have loads of as extra firms launch AI functions, however the chipmaker has additionally been shopping for up shares of smaller AI firms. Let us take a look at 5 of these investments and see whether or not they may have a spot in your portfolio.

Which 5 shares did Nvidia put money into?

In a 13F submitting earlier this yr, Nvidia disclosed its investments in 5 firms as of Dec. 31, 2023: SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN), Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM), Recursion Prescribed drugs (NASDAQ: RXRX), Nano-X Imaging (NASDAQ: NNOX), and TuSimple Holdings. This is how a lot Nvidia invested in every of these firms, and the way a lot their shares have rallied or declined since that disclosure.

Knowledge supply: Nvidia. *TuSimple delisted itself from the Nasdaq and moved to the OTC market in January 2024.

A few of these bets are extra speculative than the others

SoundHound AI and Arm generated a lot greater features than the opposite three shares. SoundHound develops audio and speech recognition applied sciences, and its Houndify platform has been used to create custom-made voice instruments for automakers like Hyundai, smart-TV makers like Vizio, and fast-food chains like Church’s Rooster.

Arm designs power-efficient chips which might be utilized in about 99% of the world’s premium smartphones. Chipmakers like Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Apple all license Arm’s designs for their very own cellular chips. Nvidia additionally licenses Arm’s designs for its Tegra CPUs, that are utilized in set-top containers, Nintendo‘s Swap consoles, and automotive infotainment techniques.

Nvidia has been bullish on each of those AI firms for a very long time. It was one in every of SoundHound’s earliest traders when it was nonetheless a start-up, and it practically acquired Arm for $40 billion earlier than antitrust regulators scuttled the deal in 2022.

Recursion, Nano-X, and TuSimple are smaller and extra speculative firms. Recursion makes use of AI algorithms to course of drug discovery checks, Nano-X is a producer of digital X-ray sources and develops AI instruments for figuring out undetected continual illnesses, and TuSimple is a Chinese language autonomous trucking firm.

Which of those shares are value shopping for?

Out of those 5 firms, solely Arm is persistently worthwhile on a typically accepted accounting rules (GAAP) foundation. Subsequently, it is simpler to check these 5 shares utilizing their estimated income development and enterprise values.

Knowledge supply: Marketscreener. *As a result of delisting from Nasdaq. CAGR = compound annual development charge.

None of those shares look low-cost proper now, however SoundHound arguably appears like essentially the most moderately valued one relative to its development potential. Arm runs a extra secure enterprise, however its valuation has been inflated by the shopping for frenzy in AI shares.

Recursion and Nano-X are growing promising applied sciences, however they have not scaled up their companies but. As for TuSimple, the autonomous trucking firm was caught within the crossfire of the escalating tech conflict between the U.S. and China, and it voluntarily delisted its shares from the Nasdaq earlier this yr. That lack of visibility, together with its steep losses and sky-high valuation, make it a troublesome inventory to suggest.

Do you have to comply with Nvidia’s lead?

These 5 shares are all tiny investments for Nvidia, which ended its newest quarter with $7.59 billion in money and equivalents. The GPU big will not lose a lot sleep if one in every of these firms goes below, however growth-oriented traders ought to stick to the 2 most established firms — particularly, Arm and SoundHound — and easily keep watch over the extra speculative ones for now.

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