For what it's worth, Wall Street is overwhelmingly bullish. Among the 65% of analysts who follow Nvidia, 92% rate the stock a buy and the other 8% rate it a hold ahead of the company's third-quarter earnings report. Not a single analyst recommends selling Nvidia at the present time. Here's what investors should know.

Also know that, unlike the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq Composite, the Dow is weighted by price rather than by market cap. Although Nvidia has an outsized influence on the movements of the cap-weighted benchmarks, at current prices NVDA stock will be as important to the DJIA as, roughly, 3M ( MMM ).

Yesterday, Nvidia (NVDA) once again surpassed Apple (AAPL) to become the world’s biggest company. The Jensen Huang-led company briefly held the crown in June, but Apple soon reclaimed the title as markets warmed up to the new artificial intelligence (AI) features that the Cupertino-based company announced for its iPhone 16.

On Nov. 20, Nvidia will release a fresh batch of financial results for its fiscal 2025 third quarter (ended Oct. 31), and if past quarters are any indication, it could be an absolute blowout. Here's how I predict the stock will react once the results are announced.

In fact, fellow Dow newbie Sherwin-Williams Co. with a market cap of $97.67 billion, is nearly three times more influential. Read: Nvidia to replace Intel in the Dow, underscoring

World’s most valuable company Overtakes Apple Most popular stock of 2024 As Nvidia’s stock market value hit $3.65 trillion on Thursday to make it the world’s most valuable company, so shares are in hot demand among retail investors in the Gulf.