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Publication Date: 2026-09-25 08:33:00
Key Points
Nvidia has paid about $6.2 billion in dividends so far this year.
The majority of the company’s capital-return program is allocated toward share buybacks, which have totaled nearly $40 billion this year.
While raising its dividend was a nice feature, Nvidia’s yield is still only 0.44%.
Nvidia(NASDAQ: NVDA) stock’s run throughout the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is the kind of story people talk about like folklore. If you invested in Nvidia on Nov. 30, 2022 — the day OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public — shares closed around $16.87 on a split-adjusted basis. Given their current level around $225, that’s roughly a 1,230% gain. This would make a $10,000 investment at that time worth more than $132,000 today. That is not a typo.
The problem is Nvidia stock doesn’t feel like that multibagger trade anymore. The easy valuation expansion is gone because investors are hunting the next AI breakout candidate. That shift helps explain another headline: back in May, Nvidia raised its quarterly dividend from $0.01 to $0.25 a share — a 2,400% increase.
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While the old dividend payout was a courtesy, the new one looks like an attempt to appeal to a broader shareholder base: pensions, passive income investors, or…
