If You Invested $1000 in Marvell Technology a Decade Ago, This is How Much It'd Be Worth Now

How much a stock's price changes over time is important for most investors, since price performance can both impact your investment portfolio and help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.Another thing that can drive investing is the fear of missing out, or FOMO. This particularly applies to tech giants and popular consumer-facing stocks.What if you'd invested in Marvell Technology (MRVL) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to MRVL for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?Marvell Technology's Business In-DepthWith that in mind, let's take a look at Marvell Technology's main business drivers.Wilmington, DE-based Marvell Technology is a fabless designer, developer and marketer of analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits. The company operates in Bermuda, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.The acquisition of Cavium in July 2018 helped Marvell enhance its product portfolio and access to newer markets. Before the Cavium acquisition, Marvell was mainly known as the leading suppliers of chips for hard disk drives (HDD) used in PCs. Cavium was specialized in offering software compatible processors that enable functionality in data center applications and network connectivity for server and switches.Therefore, the acquisition helped Marvell expanding its capabilities in the networking market and capture significant market share in the fast-growing data-center space. The strategy also helped Marvell in countering declining chips demand in HDDs due to a weaker PC market. Additionally, the move might put Marvell in a stronger competitive position in the coming years.Marvell specializes in highly integrated System-on-a-Chip (SoC) and System-in-a-Package (SiP) devices based primarily on ARM designs and sells to both enterprise and consumer customers. It has a significant number of patents in design, software and reference platforms to its credit.The company’s product line includes application processors, controllers, switches, communications and networking processors and technologies, as well as other SoCs for printers and smart home products. These serve two broad end markets — data center and enterprise networking.Marvell's reportable end-market business segments are: data center, carrier infrastructure, enterprise networking, consumer and industrial. Data center, carrier infrastructure, enterprise networking, consumer and industrial end markets contributed 72.2%, 5.9%, 10.9%, 5.5% and 5.6%, respectively, to the fiscal 2025 total revenues. Bottom LineWhile anyone can invest, building a lucrative investment portfolio takes research, patience, and a little bit of risk. If you had invested in Marvell Technology ten years ago, you're probably feeling pretty good about your investment today.A $1000 investment made in December 2015 would be worth $10,626.62, or a 962.66% gain, as of December 5, 2025, according to our calculations. Investors should note that this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.In comparison, the S&P 500's gained 227.83% and the price of gold went up 272.17% over the same time frame.Going forward, analysts are expecting more upside for MRVL.Marvell is benefiting from the strong demand environment across the data center end market. Its data center end-market revenues jumped 39% year over year in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, propelled by strong growth across AI-driven demand for custom XPU silicon and electro-optics interconnect products. The completion of inventory digestions is likely to aid growth across the enterprise networking and carrier infrastructure end markets. Shares of the company have outperformed the industry over the past six months. However, weakening consumer spending amid protracted high inflationary conditions and still-high interest rates is likely to hurt its sales across the Consumer segment. A slowdown in enterprise IT spending amid macroeconomic uncertainties may affect its performance in the near term.The stock has jumped 5.21% over the past four weeks. Additionally, no earnings estimate has gone lower in the past two months, compared to 5 higher, for fiscal 2026; the consensus estimate has moved up as well.Quantum Computing Stocks Set To SoarArtificial intelligence has already reshaped the investment landscape, and its convergence with quantum computing could lead to the most significant wealth-building opportunities of our time.Today, you have a chance to position your portfolio at the forefront of this technological revolution. In our urgent special report, Beyond AI: The Quantum Leap in Computing Power, you'll discover the little-known stocks we believe will win the quantum computing race and deliver massive gains to early investors.Access the Report Free Now >>Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Marvell Technology, Inc. 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