How much will Nvidia pay out in dividends this year

AI helps the chipmaker serve up massive profits. But how much of those profits get returned directly to shareholders?

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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world's leading provider of advanced processors for artificial intelligence (AI) and data center applications. Strong demand for its graphics processing units (GPUs) has helped boost its share price massively in the past couple of years, including a gain of roughly 156% so far across 2024's trading.

With a market capitalization of roughly $3.12 trillion as of this writing, it's also the world's second-largest company -- trailing behind only Apple. And with Nvidia stock delivering such impressive share price gains, it's easy to overlook that it also pays a dividend.

Yes, Nvidia is a dividend stock (but just barely)

The fact that Nvidia receives little attention as a dividend stock isn't surprising. The company's quarterly payout is just $0.01 per share, or $0.04 on an annual basis. Based on its current stock price, that works out to a yield of just 0.03%.

On the heels of the 10-for-1 stock split that it completed in June, Nvidia now has an outstanding share count of roughly 24.6 billion. Based on that share count, the company will wind up paying out roughly $984 million to shareholders through dividends this year.

While no one is buying Nvidia stock for its dividend today, it's possible that the company could dramatically increase its payout over time. Right now, it makes much more sense for the company to devote its capital to developing new hardware and software to strengthen its position in artificial intelligence, data centers, and other business categories. The semiconductor leader's investments in these categories have spurred sales and earnings growth that have been far more rewarding for investors than dividend payments would have been.

On the other hand, returning more cash directly to shareholders may become more sensible when Nvidia's business becomes more mature and its growth rates slow. Tech giants including Apple and Microsoft have followed that path, and it wouldn't be surprising to see Nvidia make dividend payments a bigger part of stock ownership over the next decade.

This article was originally published on Fool.com. All figures quoted in US dollars unless otherwise stated.

This article was originally published on Fool.com. All figures quoted in US dollars unless otherwise stated.

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