While Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) decision to undertake a massive stock buyback program and increase its dividend yield is, undeniably, a positive development for all of the company’s shareholders, there is arguably no greater beneficiary than company CEO Jensen Huang.
Specifically, as part of its latest quarterly filing, the blue-chip semiconductor giant revealed it will raise its long-standing 0.018% annual yield by an impressive 2,400%, effectively increasing the quarterly payment from $0.01 to $0.25 and the yearly figure from $0.04 to $1.
Under the circumstances, CEO Jensen Huang used to receive about $8 million every three months due to holding approximately 812 million Nvidia shares and will, following the firm’s latest decision, be receiving roughly $203 million instead.
This means that the executive will be seeing his dividend compensation soar by $780 million on an annual basis: from $32 million to $812 million.
Nvidia sees a $200 billion revenue opportunity from Vera CPUs
Elsewhere, the decision to execute an $80 billion share buyback and increase the yield came within an exceptionally strong quarterly earnings report that, along with optimistic guidance, featured a double beat.
Indeed, Nvidia unveiled an earnings per share (EPS) of $1.87 instead of the $1.76 that was expected. Revenue was equally impressive, considering it came in at $81.62 billion: substantially higher than the forecasted $78.86.
The standout figure, however, might be the $200 billion revenue opportunity the semiconductor giant identified for its Vera central processing units (CPUs).
Notably, GPUs have been the dominant type of hardware for the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom, but Wall Street has been increasingly looking at server CPUs as the next major driver of growth.
Nvidia stock price performance
Meanwhile, though NVDA shares’ stock market performance in 2026 has been strong, it somewhat underperformed the business results, its own historic performance.
Nvidia stock is up 19.62% in 2026 to $223.10, while some of its competitors, like Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), rallied 100% and 202%, respectively.
Still, NVDA shares’ long-term returns remain impressive, and the equity is up more than 1,400% since the AI boom started with the public release of ChatGPT.
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