5 Best Quality Stocks to Buy and Hold for the Next 5 Years

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1. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

On May 6, 2026, Simulations Plus announced a technical collaboration with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) focused on enabling GPU-accelerated simulation and AI-assisted workflows for computationally intensive modeling applications used throughout the drug development lifecycle. The collaboration combines Simulations Plus’ scientific engines across physiologically-based pharmacokinetics, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, and quantitative systems pharmacology with NVIDIA AI infrastructure to accelerate simulation cycles, parameter exploration, and virtual population studies. The companies said the effort is designed to reduce manual, expertise-driven work while enabling larger-scale exploration of model structures and parameters in parallel.

Also on May 6, NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Corning Incorporated announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership aimed at expanding U.S.-based manufacturing of advanced optical connectivity solutions used in AI infrastructure. Corning plans to increase U.S.-based optical connectivity manufacturing capacity by 10-times and expand U.S. fiber production capacity by more than 50%, supported by three new manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Texas and more than 3,000 new jobs. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said AI is driving a major infrastructure buildout and creating an opportunity to expand American manufacturing and supply chains through advanced optical technologies.

On May 5, 2026, ServiceNow announced an expansion of its partnership with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) focused on extending agentic AI governance from desktops to data centers. The announcement included the introduction of Project Arc, an enterprise autonomous desktop agent secured by NVIDIA OpenShell runtime and governed by ServiceNow AI Control Tower. ServiceNow said the AI Control Tower integration with the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design is now generally available, while NOWAI-Bench, including EnterpriseOps-Gym and EVA-Bench, has been released as open source.

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) operates as a data center-scale AI infrastructure company through its Compute & Networking and Graphics segments.

While we acknowledge the potential of NVDA to grow, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than NVDA and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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