Since September 2020, Nvidia has soared by a staggering 1,200%, but Supermicro has done even better.

It's hard to imagine that any stock may have performed better than Nvidia ( NVDA -0.82% ) over the past five years. The company has been a huge winner due to the artificial intelligence (AI) trend, as its chips provide the majority of the processing power used to develop, train, and operate AI models.

Today, Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world, with a market cap of around $4.3 trillion. It has come a long way, but what may surprise you is that since September 2020, it has only been the second-best performing stock on the S&P 500 . The award for first place goes to Super Micro Computer ( SMCI -1.49% ) , also known as Supermicro. (This is based on five-year

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