If You'd Invested $100 in Innodata 5 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

Partnering with companies building generative AI models has been a boon to Innodata.Innodata (INOD +1.91%) has existed as a company since 1988. However, a shift into artificial intelligence (AI) remade the data engineering company as a low-code software platform that helped with data collection and helped to streamline business processes for customers in specific industries. Not surprisingly, its rising popularity has helped boost the stock, and investors who bought shares five years ago and held them are likely happy with their gains. Image source: Getty Images. Innodata over the last five years Five years ago, Innodata sold for $7.25 per share, allowing an investor to buy 14 shares for $101.50. Today, those shares would be worth $662 as of the time of this writing, far above the $195 one would have earned from the S&P 500 index. Admittedly, such an investor would have been down on this investment until May 2024, when the company began to emerge as a partner for companies building generative AI models. From that point, the one-time penny stock began appreciating rapidly, peaking at almost $94 per share. ExpandNASDAQ: INODInnodataToday's Change(1.91%) $0.83Current Price$44.33Key Data PointsMarket Cap$1.4BDay's Range$42.36 - $45.0152wk Range$26.41 - $93.85Volume19KAvg Vol1.3MGross Margin41.08% Indeed, the stock has lost about half of its value since its high in October as valuation concerns and worries about an "AI bubble" have weighed on the stock. Nonetheless, investors may have good reason to keep holding despite the sale. The pullback has taken its P/E ratio to 49, a level higher than the S&P 500 average of 30, but not a level that is unusual for a growth stock. Moreover, its $179 million in revenue grew by 61% in the first nine months of 2025, indicating its AI boom is not ending anytime soon. Amid that robust growth, its relatively low P/E ratio could help it to continue crushing the market, which indicates its market-beating returns are unlikely to end soon.Read NextJan 6, 2026 •By Will HealyEVP and COO Sells 23,654 Innodata Shares for $1.4 MillionJan 5, 2026 •By Josh Kohn-LindquistWhy Innodata Stock Skyrocketed Higher TodayDec 4, 2025 •By Jeremy BowmanWhy Innodata Stock Lost 23% in NovemberDec 1, 2025 •By Rick OrfordWill This AI Stock Be the Market's Next Big Winner?Nov 26, 2025 •By Anders BylundThis Growth Stock Continues to Crush the MarketNov 23, 2025 •By Leo SunThis Overlooked AI Stock Could Outperform Nvidia in 2026, According to AnalystsAbout the AuthorWill Healy is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst covering technology and consumer goods industries.

Before The Motley Fool, Will was a freelance writer covering stocks and personal finance for MSN Money, Yahoo! Finance, and Nasdaq. Earlier in his career, he was an expert in geographic information systems, applying spatial and IT skills to perform RF and demographic analysis in the telecom industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas A&M University and an MBA in finance and strategy from the University of Texas at Dallas.TMFWillHealyX@HealyWritingStocks MentionedInnodataNASDAQ: INOD$44.33 (+1.91%) $+0.83*Average returns of all recommendations since inception. Cost basis and return based on previous market day close.