No. 48 NVIDIA

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No. 48 NVIDIA

Semiconductors
NVDA
Value of investment: $24,944.44*

5-year return: 119.4%
2010 revenues*: $3.3 billion
2010 net income*: (–$3 million)

The computer-graphics chipmaker has long dominated the high end of its market. But Nvidia lost money in its 2010 fiscal year, ending Jan. 31. (Semiconductor industry revenues dipped by 9 percent in the 2009 calendar year.) Co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang faces brutal competition from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel in the graphics market, but he’s finding new customers among makers of high-performance computers that use his chips to supercharge their powerful machines.

*Fiscal 2010 ending Jan. 31.

*For all slides as of 3/31/10