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Qualcomm earns twice over: it sells smartphone chips and collects licence royalties on its wireless patents.
The first half of the business is Snapdragon processors and modems for phones, plus growing automotive and internet-of-things lines. Here the company depends on smartphone replacement cycles and on the decisions of large handset makers: one customer moving to an in-house modem visibly changes the outlook.
The second half is licensing. Patents on cellular standards earn a royalty on close to every smartphone sold worldwide, whoever made the chip inside. That revenue is small in volume but extremely high-margin and therefore supplies a large share of profit; it is also a recurring subject of litigation and antitrust proceedings.
The strategic risk is customer vertical integration: large handset makers develop their own modems to stop paying for someone else's. The company's answer is diversification into automotive and into Arm-based personal computers. Qualcomm pays a dividend and buys back stock.
Based on the last 12 months of reports, through 30 June 2026
The sector median covers every company in the sector on the US market, loss-making ones included.
QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM) is a company in the Technology sector; its shares trade on Nasdaq.
The price of QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM) on November 3, 2026 is 164.01 $, +1.19 % on the day. Over 52 weeks the stock traded between 121.99 $ and 259.92 $; the price now sits 30 % of the way up that range. Over the past year the price changed by +9.47 %. The P/E ratio is 18.67, which is below the sector median (32.66). Market capitalization is 172.89 billion $, rank 1 among 16 stocks of the same industry with a known capitalization.
QUALCOMM Incorporated trades on Nasdaq under the ticker QCOM. The company belongs to the Technology sector. The trading history on this page starts on 22 August 2016.
Over the past 52 weeks QCOM has traded between 121.99 $ and 259.92 $. As of 3 November 2026 the price stood 40.90 % of the way from the 52-week low to the high.
Over one year QCOM shares rose 9.47 %; over six months they rose 32.67 %. Volatility over 90 days is 51.88 %. Dividends are not included: this is price change only, as of 3 November 2026.
QCOM trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.7, below the sector median of 32.7. Price to sales is 3.9, above the sector median of 3.4. Price to book is 6.3, above the sector median of 3.4. Calculated from reports for the period ending 30 June 2026.
QUALCOMM Incorporated reported revenue of 44.1B $ and net income of 9.3B $ over the last four quarters. Net margin is 21.01 %. Revenue changed by +1.88 % year over year. Earnings per share are 8.75 $. Market capitalisation is 172.9B $.
QCOM has a return on equity of 33.48 %, above the sector median of 2.27 %. Return on assets is 16.14 %, above the sector median of 0.67 %. Operating margin is 23.19 %, above the sector median of 1.05 %.
QUALCOMM Incorporated pays dividends quarterly: 3.62 $ per share over the past twelve months, a yield of 2.21 %. The latest payment was 0.92 $, with an ex-dividend date of 3 September 2026. The company has raised its payout for 12 years in a row.
