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Nvidia dividend: the 25-fold raise, the yield and the dates

How much Nvidia pays per share, its 2026 dividend increase and $80 billion buyback, the yield at today’s price, when it pays, and what your shares earn a year.

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TL;DR

  • Nvidia pays $0.25 a share every quarter, $1.00 a year. It raised the dividend 25-fold in May 2026, from a penny a quarter.
  • The yield is still small, about 0.5% at today’s price: $100 of Nvidia earns about 50 cents a year.
  • Nvidia returns far more cash through buybacks; it added $80 billion to its buyback plan at the same time.
  • LemonTrades tells you what moved Nvidia, and why, as it happens, and warns you before its earnings.

For years Nvidia’s dividend was a rounding error. In 2026 it became a real, if small, payout. Here are the numbers.

Nvidia’s dividendNow
NVDA share pricelive$– –
Dividend per sharequarterly$0.25
Dividend per sharea year$1.00
Shares for $1,000 a year in dividends1,000 shares, worth $–
Shares for $100 a year100 shares, worth $–

Live, updated every minute, before taxes. Dividend yield = $1.00 ÷ the share price, so at about $200 a share, roughly 0.5%.

The 2026 raise

With its first-quarter results in May 2026, Nvidia raised its quarterly dividend from $0.01 to $0.25 a share, a 25-fold jump, and authorized another $80 billion of buybacks with no expiration date. The first higher dividend was paid on June 26 to shareholders of record on June 4. The same report showed record revenue of $81.6 billion for the quarter, up 85% from a year earlier.

Nvidia dividend history

PeriodQuarterly dividendNote
2012$0.075Nvidia’s first dividend
2021 to mid-2024$0.04After the 2021 4-for-1 split
Mid-2024 to early 2026$0.01After the 2024 10-for-1 split; a 150% raise in split-adjusted terms
From June 2026$0.25The 25-fold raise

Amounts are per share at the time; splits change the per-share figure. Nvidia pays four times a year, near the end of March, June, September and December. How its splits work: NVDA stock split.

How it compares

  • Microsoft pays $0.91 a share each quarter, a yield around 0.7%.
  • Apple pays $0.27 each quarter, about 0.3%.
  • Alphabet pays $0.22 and Meta $0.525 each quarter, both well under 1%.
  • Amazon and Tesla pay nothing. See does Amazon pay dividends?

For income, big tech isn’t the place: the S&P 500 as a whole yields more. For growth plus a small payout, Nvidia now qualifies. Buying it: see how to buy Nvidia stock.

Sources

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