Nvidia made one of the biggest buyback announcements ever. It may not be enough.
The raise shows confidence in the business, but some analysts want to see it go higher. Nvidia, led by CEO Jensen Huang, upped its share repurchase commitment on Wednesday.Nvidia's swelling cash flows had some investors anticipating an update on capital returns leading into its earnings report on Wednesday. While the company delivered on those hopes, some are feeling it wasn't enough.UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri said before the report that he could see Nvidia upping its share-repurchase commitment to $150 billion over the next 12 months. Wednesday's report didn't quite meet that mark. Still, he noted that Nvidia raised its dividend, which he had previously said investors were also pushing for.Given Nvidia's commentary that it plans to return about 50% of free cash flow to investors this year, Arcuri is modeling for that to be around $210 billion, meaning the company will have to repurchase about $69 billion in shares over the next three fiscal quarters, he said in a Thursday note. He exp