Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Qualcomm beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $10.24 billion, up 18.7% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Qualcomm’s revenue to grow 10.1% year on year to $10.94 billion, improving from the 5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.97 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Qualcomm has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at Qualcomm’s peers in the processors and graphics chips segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Intel’s revenues decreased 7.4% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Qorvo reported a revenue decline of 14.7%, topping estimates by 1.4%. Intel traded down 3.3% following the results while Qorvo’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Intel’s results here and Qorvo’s results here.
Stocks, especially growth stocks where cash flows further in the future are more important to the story, have had a good 2024. An economic soft landing (so far), the start of the Fed's rate cutting campaign, and the election of Donald Trump were positives for the market, and while some of the processors and graphics chips stocks have shown solid performance, the group has generally underpeformed, with share prices down 4.5% on average over the last month. Qualcomm is up 6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $202.61 (compared to the current share price of $170.24).
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