Tech giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and social media behemoth Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) took the gold and silver medals, respectively, for the best-performing stocks on the S 500 index for the first half of 2023.

Below is a look at the top two performers of the year through June 30. For context, the S 500 returned 16.9% over this period, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite returned 32.3%.

Nvidia started out in the 1990s as a company focused on making graphics processing units (GPUs) for computer gaming. Today, it dominates this market and has become a technology powerhouse that's a leader in many fast-growing tech arenas, including artificial intelligence (AI), self-driving vehicles, and the burgeoning metaverse.

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