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The longer I hold NVDA, the more I feel like current debates are missing the point.

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Dec 18, 2025 · 19:58

I saw a piece of news about NVDA today and honestly, this kind of story is something only long-term shareholders would stop and think twice about.

It’s not earnings.
It’s not a price target.
And it’s not even some kind of “explosive catalyst.”

It was just this one line:

NVDA will work with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to integrate an exploration platform connecting government, industry, and academia.

If you’ve only been following NVDA for the past year,
you’d probably think:
“What does this have to do with the stock price?”

But if you’ve held NVDA long enough,
you know
what really defines a company often isn’t in the headline.

What is the DOE?
It’s not there to fuel market hype.
It oversees supercomputing, energy systems, materials science, nuclear research.

When places like this choose a platform, they have a few traits:

Slow

Deliberate

Once they adopt it, they rarely switch

This isn’t just “selling GPUs” anymore.
This is being woven into the foundational computing infrastructure of U.S. research and industry.

Lately, I’ve seen way too much discussion about NVDA:

“Isn’t the valuation too high?”

“Is this a bubble?”

“Should I trim my position?”

Honestly, I’ve been through this before.
2017, 2020, 2023… people have said this every cycle.

But when you look back,
what has really held NVDA up isn’t sentiment, but the fact that “the world can’t do without it anymore.”

Now it’s not just indispensable among cloud providers
it’s becoming the default choice in government, research, and energy systems too.

This isn’t the kind of news that makes the stock jump 10% tomorrow.
This is the kind of news where:
Five years from now, you’ll look back and realize the groundwork was already being laid today.

Not saying you should buy.
Not saying it won’t pull back.
But as a long-term shareholder, one thing is becoming clearer to me:

When a company starts getting embedded into national level systems,
arguing about whether it’s “expensive” using ordinary tech stock logic…
well, that feels like we’re not even on the same wavelength anymore.

Just curious:
How many people here have held NVDA for more than 3 years?
What’s your first reaction when you see news like this?