QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM)

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QUALCOMM Incorporated's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, 2 times, the latest 2018-08-01) (its current reports).

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QUALCOMM Incorporated's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $22 billion in fiscal 2017 to $43 billion in fiscal 2026, up 7.6% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 19% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-09-27, QUALCOMM Incorporated's diluted share count shrank about 1.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 55% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 115 sales (114 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-09-27, QUALCOMM Incorporated earned about 45 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 38 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 50 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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QUALCOMM Incorporated's standing among 21 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $43 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 3% by size; a net margin of 31.6% ranks in the top 7%; revenue growth of 6.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 48% (its annual reports).

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QUALCOMM Incorporated's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Amon, Cristiano R (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-09-27, 5.1 years (bottom 27% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.6 years (top 19%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 28%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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QUALCOMM Incorporated's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $4.6 billion against debt of $13 billion leaves -13.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 17% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 20.1% of revenue (top 21%); a gross margin of 53.1% (top 8%); research spending of 23.7% of revenue (top 31%) (its annual report).

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QUALCOMM Incorporated's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 6.4% a year over the last three filed years against 7.6% over all 10, slowing (top 45% of its family); the newest year grew -2.6% (bottom 26%); research spending grew 5% a year (top 21%); capital spending grew 19.8% a year (top 13%) (its annual reports). QUALCOMM Incorporated tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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QUALCOMM Incorporated's newest year against its own record: revenue of $43 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 12.4% below the $49 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 18% of its family); net income of $14 billion against a prior three-year average of $7.6 billion (top 22%); a net margin of 31.6% against 19.6% before (top 39%) (its annual reports).