5 Best Stocks to Buy and Hold For the Next 5 Years

​4. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 264

​Analysts expect NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) to grow its EPS by more than 39% over the next 5 years. The stock is among our Best Stocks to Buy and Hold for the Next 5 years. Wall Street has been bullish on the stock as 93% of the 70 analysts covering the stock have a Buy rating. The 12-month average price target suggests more than 33.9% upside from the current level.

​On April 20, Reuters reported that Morgan Stanley released a research note suggesting that the increase in autonomous artificial intelligence can boost the demand for CPUs and transform the data center buildout, which is currently more focused on GPUs.

​The estimates that agentic AI can add somewhere around $32.5 billion to $60 billion to the data center CPU market, which is already expected to exceed $100 billion by 2030. Morgan Stanley believes that the next wave of agentic AI will be driven by coordination more than raw computing power, and CPUs in this regard provide more control to manage multistep tasks.

​Morgan Stanley has named NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) as one of the major beneficiaries of the next phase of agentic AI.

​NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is a technology company that pioneered the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and is now a global leader in accelerated computing and artificial intelligence (AI). It has evolved into a full-stack computing infrastructure company that powers AI factories, data centers, autonomous vehicles, and robotic applications.