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.

CEO Jensen Huang thinks data center operators will spend $1 trillion upgrading their infrastructure over the next five years in order to support demand from artificial intelligence (AI) developers. Part of that money will be spent on graphics processing units (GPUs),

Wall Street in terms of market value, but in the eyes of the 128-year-old Dow Jones Industrial Average, its stock is ranked well below average. The semiconductor maker and leader of the artificial-intelligence boom officially became a member of the venerable index at 9:30 a.