Looking ahead, Wall Street's consensus estimate suggests that Nvidia's EPS could come in at $4.43 in fiscal 2026. That places the stock at a forward P/E ratio of just 32.1. This means the stock will have to soar 82% next year just to trade in line with its 10-year average P/E of 58.6, which implies a stock price of $259!

The stock isn't cheap, but it isn't far from where its peers are priced. Nvidia has risen to the top of AI investments because it has become the building block on which AI models are built and trained.

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) remains the hottest AI stock in the market, and remains the second-largest company by market capitalization in the world. That says a lot about this company, given its revenue relative to current market leader Apple (NADSAQ:AAPL),