Nvidia Surpasses Germany

xvilka

Not directly related, but still reminds me of the recent Kurzgesagt (they are famous for well-researched content and are originally from Germany) video[1] about the bleak future Germany is facing in upcoming decades. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-gYFcVx-8Y

bell-cot

Yes, I'm sure Germany has plenty of problems that need addressing. But - > Nvidia’s market capitalisation ($5.7 trillion) has overtaken Germany’s GDP ($5.45 trillion). - is about like saying "my orange tree is taller than the pile of apples harvested from your apple tree".

clearstack

90% of NVDA revenue is one segment — data center. Germany has 83M people and industrial output across dozens of sectors. All that market cap rests on a single product cycle.

JumpCrisscross

“A stock is measured at one specific time, and represents a quantity existing at that point in time (say, December 31, 2004), which may have accumulated in the past. A flow variable is measured over an interval of time. Therefore, a flow would be measured per unit of time (say a year)” [1]. Equity value is a stock metric. GDP is a flow. Put another way, Germany outputs about one NVIDIA every year. (The total value of the German stock market is about €3tn. A better comparison would be that NVIDIA and Anthropic are worth as much as all of Germany’s public equity.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_and_flow

mrkeen

Meaningless comparison and category error. I challenge you to put the information in this article to use. Market cap is the number of shares multiplied by whatever (some small number of) those shares traded for lately. GDP is actual economic activity. Money changing hands for goods and services. A better (but still ultimately meaningless) comparison between the two would be economic activity. Germany 2025 GDP: 5T USD Nvidia 2025 revenue: 130B USD

metalman

well folks it has finnaly happened, and Germany will now have to issue shares/citizenship stock, and allow people to sell and trade there nationalities.

siva7

So Nvidia is worth about 1/6 of the US GDP. More than any company in the US history (except standard oil?). That's too big to fail, isn't it?

maratc

> Nvidia’s market capitalisation ($5.7 trillion) has overtaken Germany’s GDP ($5.45 trillion). Germany’s GDP is not $5.45 trillion. Germany’s GDP is $5.45 trillion per year . I can overtake your car because I can run at 5.5 m/s, while the length of your car is only 5 m.