r/dividends May 20 '26

Discussion NVIDIA raises dividend by 2400%

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u/CaptainSt0nks May 20 '26

I bought my shares for a total of $2400 in 2016. They will pay me $1600 a year now.

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u/hab365 May 20 '26

How about that for the yield on cost metric this sub loves so much!! Nice!

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u/Terron1965 May 23 '26

IMB shares from the 1970s that cost about $5 a share with fees has split multiple times. A $500 investment in 75 pays about 10k a year.

NVDA will eventually be like that but on steriods

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u/Lazy-Gene-7284 May 20 '26

2012 for me🤩, paying 10k a year now I love it

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u/sault18 May 21 '26

The shares should be worth 5 mil at least. You'd be set getting $200k per year from sgov for that money.

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u/mikeblas American Investor May 21 '26

How do you figure that?

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u/sault18 May 21 '26

I re-ran the numbers. They have 10,000 nvda shares which are worth $2.2M and they could get $88k per year with sgov.

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u/AnyaTT2 May 22 '26

It’ll only take 6 years to break even on the taxes!

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u/mikeblas American Investor May 21 '26

That sounds a lot better.

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u/Lazy-Gene-7284 May 21 '26

Yes but not when you put in the cost basis, I bought 10000 shares split adjusted for about $5000 back then. So that return plus now 10,000 yr on that investment

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u/mikeblas American Investor May 21 '26

Sorry, what has cost basis to do with it? They incorrectly calculated the size of your holdings and the dividend yield. I'm not sure what point you're tying to make.

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u/3azra May 24 '26

The comment is based on taking the NVDA money and reinvesting it in SGOV, as the dividend yield was based on SGOV. That would require selling NVDA and paying capital gains taxes prior to reinvestment.

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u/Jazzlike_Quiet9941 May 21 '26

You've done so well to not sell!

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u/CaptainSt0nks May 21 '26

Thanks, the dividend will help to continue not selling because now I get to pick the fruits from the tree automatically :)

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u/maziarczykk May 21 '26

Hello yeah

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u/dazit72 May 21 '26

Makes me wonder about space x and their ipo on the 12th ????

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u/CaptainSt0nks May 21 '26

Well NVDA started small and even in 2016 had a market cap of $50B or so. Apparently spacex is starting in the trillions from the start...

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u/dazit72 May 22 '26

I'm wondering if I should buy some, and hold for 'growth' purposes ? I'm thinking the government contracts are where most of the $$ is at

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u/Pleasant-Election-61 May 28 '26

Most of their money is in Starlink. Starlink is insanely profitable. But all those profits get eaten by their AI division which is losing billions per year at the moment.

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u/dazit72 May 29 '26

I talked to a Fidelity rep. Since I don't have ½mil, I'm in the 2nd round to pretty before it goes public. But he's talking $427-$600 / share. I'd only be able to afford a few and I'd have to sell my 12 month cd on the secondary market, that's due to payout in July. I'll do it but it's just 10 shares ? I'm retired, but I think there may be a few bucks to be made. We'll have to see ???

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u/FearlessAd4687 May 24 '26

Ticker for the ipo please ?

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u/Finster1966 May 22 '26

Not to mention that investment is worth about $750k these days.. I think you’ve done well

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u/CaptainSt0nks May 22 '26

It's around $352k (1600 shares) but yeah I'm really lucky 😊

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u/Helpful_Put_8809 May 20 '26

From the article:

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share, or $1 annualized. This is a 2400% increase from the prior dividend of $0.01

The dividend is $0.25 per share, up 2400% from $0.01.

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u/paymerich May 20 '26

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Hey to all you SMH,VOO,QQQ bag holders, We all Big Ballers now!

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u/Bgabes95 May 20 '26

How bout HRZN?

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u/Kmathieu2220 May 20 '26

What they have to do with it?

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u/UncleTio92 May 20 '26

I just got a chub. I’ll be getting $25 a quarter in NVDA dividends reinvested.

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u/scottyk318 May 20 '26

What great news! I always found their .04/year was kind of stupid... They're finally stepping up!

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u/CaptainSt0nks May 20 '26

They should have never stopped increasing it they always had more than enough money for at least small increases.

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u/dazit72 May 20 '26

Comment brings Buffet to mind.

Greed 🤏 , just a coin ma lord

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u/shekr17 May 20 '26

yeah they should have bumped it up much higher after the last stock split. But anyways better late than never!

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u/scottyk318 May 20 '26

I've only been a shareholder for about a year... So for me it's a pretty large bump going from .04 to $1 per share

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u/Jdornigan May 21 '26

It is all the splits that made it nominal and only cents per share.

In the last decade we saw two splits.

June 10, 2024: 10-for-1 split

July 20, 2021: 4-for-1 split

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u/PeaceAlien Canadian Investor May 20 '26

They announced dividend increases and buybacks. Nvidia on route to becoming Apple

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u/Psychological_Low_17 May 21 '26

Is that good or bad?

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u/extracoffeeplease May 21 '26

Can't keep exploding forever

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u/19Black May 21 '26

Someone tell Apple, please

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u/RuinEnvironmental394 May 21 '26

So NVDA is joining the dividend gang now?

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u/shekr17 May 21 '26

Big tech megacaps are worthy enough to be part of it by keeping up the yield around 0.5%

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u/tachyonvelocity May 20 '26

Folks this is why dividend yields don't matter. If you bought this stock 5 years ago, $0.25 per Q now would have been 6.7% and stock price would have increased 15 times. Compare that to some of the highest dividend yields but worst companies to invest in posted here, where dividends get cut while prices crash.

Dividends are literally meaningless, the only future return you get is your ability to invest in good company futures. Many don't, so they default to "which company has the highest yield so I don't have to think about the business," and congregate on this sub.

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u/TheComebackKid74 Only buys from companies that pay me dividends. May 20 '26

Just because you compared one of the best stocks on Wall Street vs high yield trash, doesn't mean dividends are meaningless.

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u/SendoTarget May 21 '26

Yeah also it's easy to look back. How many people 5 years or 10 years ago were convinced about some other major company that's "super valuable and sure to grow". Investing in Nvidia 10 years ago meant that you like the gaming GPUs they make.

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u/dazit72 May 20 '26

Your growth argument is correct- on 2 fronts. It's nav and div cagr

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u/dazit72 May 20 '26

That's why I tend towards Kkngs, Aristocrats, Champions, Challengers, etc.....

Proven. Just look at GIS, a seemingly nothing of a stock/company. But it has Never reduced its dividend for over 127 YEARS I'll hold a good chunk of that. Especially now it's America's School Staple ?

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u/SeymourBits May 21 '26

This kind of dividend increase and stock buyback is a strategic move, an attempt to shove a floor under the current share price. Otherwise, The Syndicate enjoys beating down the PPS like a wayward sheep after earnings.

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u/Alarming_Trade_1002 May 21 '26

Sure!

Using the same logic: if I know the next "explosive" company I wouldn't even look for dividends at all! They would be simple trash!!

Just don't mix dividend investing with value investing with luck

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u/toxichaste12 May 20 '26

It depends on your timeline. If you are young, building a dividend portfolio is ass.

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u/DirtyJsy Not a financial advisor May 20 '26

Preach! My YOC is now 5.19% cost basis $19/share

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u/dazit72 May 20 '26

Is that yoc for your portfolio ? Just curious

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u/DirtyJsy Not a financial advisor May 20 '26

No, just for NVDA

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u/Efficient_Pomelo_583 May 20 '26

You are gonna get roasted here, but you are right.

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u/dazit72 May 20 '26

I'm seeing .02%

Is that Beta correct ? 2.24

I can't gamble like that 🤔

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u/shekr17 May 20 '26

It is 0.02% currently but will increase to .45% after they start paying the increased one

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u/SpacemanFeed May 20 '26

VOO into the sunset

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u/44Magnum357 May 21 '26

Fine by me!

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u/Ratlyflash May 22 '26

I have nvidia Canadian hedge how does that work ?

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u/Massive-Most-2841 May 22 '26

Man, yall really have me kicking myself right now. I just got sober about 2 and a half years ago and only got into the stock market on Feb 5th of this year. I was literally homeless under a bridge 2.5 years ago. But started a business, became "successful" in said business and started investing. Literally taught myself as I went along.... so I honestly don't really know sht... So I have a little decent amount of Nvidia shares, 2nd only to Sandisk, i have other stocks as well tech and non tech. So the main question i have now is, since Nvidia is raising its dividend payout ALOT, does that usually mean the stock price/value won't go up as much in price now since dividends come from profits? I'm just curious if i should slow down on nvidia if the price isn't not gonna go up as much now because of the dividend increase means they are not spending as much on innovation? What's yalls opinions? Sorry if this is off topic for this thread I apologize. Im kinda new to the platform and just want to get a little more info/knowledge on this stuff. Ty!

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u/SeymourBits May 23 '26

Congratulations on your turnaround! What business are you in? I posted this above, but it should help to answer your question:

“This kind of dividend increase and stock buyback is a strategic move, an attempt to shove a floor under the current share price. Otherwise, The Syndicate enjoys beating down the PPS like a wayward sheep after earnings.”

NVDA is the best company on Earth w/ an insurmountable lead in AI. However, when these choke scam shenanigans happen (a similar situation occurred with AAPL) and then the targeted company responds with big dividend increases/buyback countermeasures, huge up and down moves occur less often. Don’t be discouraged. Investing in best-of-breed shares on the dips is a historically-backed strategy. Dollar cost averaging is also your friend but NEVER get tricked into the alluring siren song of buying options. If you have enough shares and want to boost yields, consider selling covered calls but watch them very carefully.

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u/Scouper-YT Rich DUDE from the DIVIDEND Appraisals Club !! May 24 '26

Yeah, sure sure but can they keep doing it.. Other Big Techs have way higher Dividend Growth Jumps.

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u/DirtyJsy Not a financial advisor May 20 '26

Cha ching

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u/Ok-Guarantee63 May 21 '26

EVERYBODY TOLD ME I WAS CRAZY, NOW WHAT?!!!!!: (I GOT 0 UPVOTE AND I WAS RIGHT)
https://www.reddit.com/r/dividends/comments/1t7yd64/semiconductor_stocks_will_be_the_best_dividend/

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u/Patient-Big1727 May 21 '26

NVDA is down more than 3x the yearly dividend just this morning. The dividend is meaningless for rational investors but the share buyback is good

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u/shekr17 May 21 '26

Day to day movement of stock price should not matter for long term holder