So apparently, circular financing deals aren't helping Nvidia's stock anymore, and neither are press releases about GPUs being approved for sale to China.
In what looks like a last hurrah, Jensen asked the board to approve an aggressive buyback program, bigger than anything Tim Cook's Apple has ever announced. Nvidia has released a plan to execute a total of $235 billion in buybacks through FY28. That's six quarters, or roughly $40 billion per quarter. Even if Nvidia doesn't end up using the full plan, it shows Jensen is ready to use whatever it has to support its stock.
Will he succeed?
Nvidia has over $279 billion in commitments as of July 26, 2026 (and that number will probably grow a lot more). Nvidia repurchased only $40 billion in FY26. Last quarter alone, it repurchased $20 billion. Dividends: around $12 billion. Free cash flow last quarter: $21.34 billion.
A $40 billion quarterly buyback pace is nearly double last quarter's free cash flow, before dividends and before a single dollar of those commitments.
On top of that, Nvidia needs more cash to support its SPVs (the neoclouds), Oracle and the labs.
Jensen is going to fight with everything he has, and the market should be ready for more debt raising, and maybe even an equity offering, from Nvidia.