Is Qualcomm, Inc (NASDAQ: QCOM) A Good Investment For New Investors Now?

Qualcomm, Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.45% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $136.35.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $135.74, falling within a range of $135.8 and $137.53. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.287 whereas the PE ratio is 14.57 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $230.63, and the low was $120.80. On the whole, QCOM has fluctuated by -13.85% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Qualcomm, Inc currently standing at about $150.80 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-04. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 3.40, with its dividend yield at 2.49%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 43.47B, with a low estimate of 10B and a high estimate of 10.84B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 10.6B.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that QCOM’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.06, with the price of QCOM currently trading nearly -5.81% and -12.13% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 41.12, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.13% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.20%. Furthermore, Qualcomm, Inc (QCOM)’s beta value is 1.31, and its average true range (ATR) is 7.55.

A comparison of Qualcomm, Inc (QCOM) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. QCOM showed an intraday change of 0.45% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -19.12%%.

Data on historical trading for Qualcomm, Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 13.92 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 8.80 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 1.11 billion shares outstanding.

Nearly 0.10% of Qualcomm, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 77.92% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 16.66 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.24. According to the data, the short interest in Qualcomm, Inc (QCOM) stood at 168.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 17.26 million. The stock has fallen by -11.24% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the QCOM stock heading into the next quarter.

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