Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips
Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry.
The figure sits in the company’s own quarterly filing. CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier the figure stood at about $7bn. Two years earlier, $2.2bn.
That is a fourteenfold rise in twelve months, and a forty-fivefold rise in twenty-four. The company has committed more than $40bn to financing deals during 2026 alone, and reported a further $25bn of investment commitments still outstanding.
Half of it is in companies you cannot sell out of
Business Insider broke down the composition, which is the part the headline number hides. Roughly $48bn sits in publicly traded stocks and other marketable securities. Another $48bn sits in private companies and other non-marketable holdings. About $3bn is in equity-method investments.
The public half...
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