This artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer was invited to join the storied S&P 500 Index after years of impressive growth.

For what it's worth, Wall Street is overwhelmingly bullish. Among the 65% of analysts who follow Nvidia, 92% rate the stock a buy and the other 8% rate it a hold ahead of the company's third-quarter earnings report. Not a single analyst recommends selling Nvidia at the present time. Here's what investors should know.

However, no company has more directly benefited from the rise of AI than semiconductor behemoth Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). In less than two years, Nvidia has grown from a $360 billion business that was somewhat important within the tech sector to Wall Street's most-valuable publicly traded company ($3.