If you have spent any time near a business headline, a tech Twitter thread, or a market update video in the last two years, you’ve run into this – NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock. It’s the company behind the chips powering the AI boom, and it has gone from “the graphics card company” to one of the most valuable companies on the planet, at a market capitalization north of $5 trillion as of August 2026, according to NVIDIA’s own investor relations page.
For Indian investors and traders, NVIDIA is also a useful case study in a bigger shift: how do you actually get exposure to a stock like this, listed 12,500 kilometres away on the NASDAQ, when your trading day usually ends well before New York’s begins?
This guide covers what NVIDIA and NVDA stock is, why it matters, the traditional routes Indians have used to buy it, and the newer, faster route that’s changing how retail investors in India access it.
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. Nvidia trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker NVDA.
It started out designing graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming. Over the last decade, those same GPUs turned out to be exactly the kind of parallel-processing hardware needed to train and run large AI models, and that repositioning is what turned NVIDIA NVDA stock into the center of gravity for the entire AI trade.
The scale is genuinely hard to overstate.
In its fiscal 2026 (ended January 2026), NVIDIA reported full-year revenue of $215.9 billion, up 65% from the year before, per its own quarterly results disclosure. In its most recent reported quarter ended April 26, 2026; NVIDIA posted record revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% year-over-year, with Data Center revenue (the AI infrastructure business) alone hitting $75.2 billion, according to the official press release on NVIDIA’s investor site.
NVIDIA’s next earnings report, for Q2 fiscal 2027, is scheduled for August 26, 2026; a date worth marking if you’re tracking NVIDIA stock closely.
NVIDIA also pays a dividend (a small one relative to its share price) and has a long history of stock splits. Most recently, it executed a 10-for-1 forward stock split in June 2024, confirmed in NVIDIA’s own SEC 8-K filing, alongside a 150% increase to its quarterly dividend at the time. In May 2026, the board raised the quarterly dividend again, from $0.01 to $0.25 per share, per the company’s Q1 FY2027 filing details.
None of this makes NVDA a “dividend stock” in the traditional sense (the dividend yield is small) but it tells you the company treats capital returns as part of the story now, not just growth.
NVIDIA (NVDA) stock functions as a bellwether for the entire AI and semiconductor trade. A few reasons this happens:
1. It sits at the center of the AI supply chain. Nearly every major AI lab (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and others) trains and runs its models on NVIDIA GPUs. When NVIDIA’s Data Center segment grows or slows, it tells you something about the AI infrastructure industry spending.
2. Its earnings calls move adjacent stocks. When NVIDIA reports, traders in AMD, Micron, TSMC, and even hyperscalers like Microsoft and Amazon watch closely, because NVIDIA’s commentary on GPU demand, supply constraints, and customer capex plans is treated as a leading indicator for the whole sector.
3. It’s an indicator of risk appetite. Because NVIDIA now has such a large share of major indices, its moves disproportionately affect the NASDAQ and S&P 500 on any given day.
This is exactly why traders (not just long-term investors) want a way to react to NVIDIA news the moment it happens, rather than waiting for Indian markets or their broker’s next window.
Before getting into tokenized access, it’s worth being clear-eyed about the traditional route, because it still works, and for some investors it’s still the more suitable one.
Indian residents can buy NVIDIA and other US stocks under the Reserve Bank of India’s Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS), which allows remittance of up to USD 250,000 per financial year for permitted purposes, including overseas investment. This typically works through:
All of these routes come with real trade-offs: LRS remittance paperwork, TCS (Tax Collected at Source) above a ₹10 lakh annual threshold, and currency conversion costs. NVIDIA trades on NASDAQ hours, which in IST is roughly 7:00 PM to 1:30 AM. If a Jensen Huang keynote or an AI-chip export headline breaks at 8 AM IST, direct-ownership investors are stuck watching the pre-market chatter until the US session opens that evening.
For serious traders and investors, this is a serious opportunity lost.
This is the gap tokenized spot trading is built to close; by giving you a more dynamic way to react to NVIDIA-linked price moves without opening a separate international account.
A tokenized stock is a blockchain-based token designed to track the price of an underlying real-world stock. Buying a tokenized NVDA stock gives you spot price exposure to NVIDIA’s share price (the token’s value moves up and down in line with NVDA) but you are not registered as a shareholder of NVIDIA Corporation.
You own the token; you don’t own equity in the company.
This distinction matters and we’ll dig into it properly in a dedicated comparison of NVIDIA stock versus tokenized NVIDIA stock, but the short version is: think of it as owning a contract whose value is pegged to NVDA, issued and made tradable through crypto-market infrastructure rather than a traditional stock exchange.
Here’s why this is genuinely one of the most useful on-ramps to NVIDIA that Indian traders have had:
You too, can trade tokenised US stocks on Mudrex. Here’s our beginner friendly guide:
Mudrex has expanded Spot trading to include tokenized US Stocks, and NVIDIA (ticker NVDAB on Mudrex Spot) is among the flagship names available, alongside Tesla, Micron, SanDisk, Circle Internet Group, and SpaceX. Broadly, the process looks like this:
We’ve written a full step-by-step walkthrough, including funding options and order types, on how to buy NVIDIA stock in India through tokenized spot trading.
Spot exposure only lets you benefit when NVIDIA’s price rises. If you want to express a view that NVIDIA might fall (ahead of a weak guidance print, for instance) or you want leveraged exposure, that’s a different product: US stock-linked perpetual futures, live on Mudrex as NVDA/USDT.
A perpetual contract has no expiry date, and lets you go long or short on NVIDIA’s price movement without owning any underlying asset, tokenized or otherwise.
This is a materially different risk profile from spot; leverage magnifies both gains and losses, and perpetual contracts carry funding costs and liquidation risk that don’t exist in spot ownership. It’s worth understanding fully before you size a position; we go deeper on this in how NVIDIA stock differs from tokenized NVIDIA stock and in why NVIDIA is one of the most heavily traded tokenized stocks, including how perps and spot volumes compare.
One of the more practical advantages of tokenized markets is that they are not bound to NASDAQ’s Monday-Friday, 9:30 AM-4:00 PM ET session. Tokenized NVDA stock and NVDA perpetuals can trade outside standard US market hours; though it’s worth understanding that liquidity and spreads outside those hours behave differently.
We cover this in full in can Indians buy NVIDIA stock 24/7 through tokenized trading.
None of this is investment advice; NVIDIA stock, like any single-stock position, should be sized according to your own risk appetite and time horizon, and if you’re unsure how it fits your portfolio, that’s a conversation for a qualified financial advisor.
NVIDIA NVDA stock refers to shares of NVIDIA Corporation, listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker NVDA. NVIDIA designs GPUs and AI computing hardware and is currently the world’s largest company by market capitalization.
Yes. Indian residents can buy NVIDIA shares through international brokerage accounts or GIFT City routes, using the RBI’s Liberalised Remittance Scheme, which permits remittances of up to USD 250,000 per financial year for this purpose.
Tokenized NVIDIA stock (NVDAB on Mudrex) is a token designed to track NVDA’s price. It gives you price exposure without making you a shareholder of NVIDIA Corporation; no voting rights, no direct dividend entitlement, and no international brokerage account required. You can trade it on Mudrex Spot from the same app you use for crypto.
Not through direct share ownership, but yes through derivatives. NVDA/USDT perpetual futures on Mudrex let you go long or short on NVIDIA’s price movement with leverage, without owning the underlying stock or token.
Download the Mudrex app, complete KYC, fund your account, and search for NVDAB (spot) or NVDA/USDT (perpetuals). Full step-by-step instructions are in how to buy NVIDIA stock in India through tokenized spot trading.
