In caller years, investors person mostly overlooked Qualcomm (QCOM 1.38%) stock. The person successful smartphone chipsets faced declining revenues aft the 5G upgrade rhythm ran its course, and the request for AI-enabled phones has truthful acold not fostered a comparable maturation cycle.
Plus, Apple is connected way to driblet Qualcomm arsenic a chipset supplier successful 2027, and the company's dense vulnerability to China has weighed connected the stock.
Still, contempt those challenges, investors whitethorn beryllium overlooking a compelling crushed to bargain this worth stock. Here's why.

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Why investors should expect a Qualcomm comeback
In short, the crushed to bargain Qualcomm is its emerging concern lines.
Indeed, struggles successful the smartphone chipset concern could continue. However, Qualcomm has agelong anticipated a time erstwhile smartphones would go little critical. It has expanded into caller concern lines, including IoT, automotive, and much recently, the PC business. It besides plans to plan customized processors that volition integrate with Nvidia's AI chips.
These moves are showing aboriginal signs of success. Although revenue maturation was 17% year-over-year successful the archetypal fractional of fiscal 2025 (ended March 30), IoT gross grew 31% during that period, and automotive gross surged 60%. This is acold supra the 12% summation successful the handset spot income that inactive thrust astir of the company's revenue.
What's more, Qualcomm's costs and expenses grew astatine levels intimately approximating gross growth. Still, its $6 cardinal successful nett income successful the archetypal 2 quarters of fiscal 2025 roseate by 18%, indicating the company's spot businesses are successful an up-cycle. Although Qualcomm did not study numbers connected its PC business, it expects to make $4 cardinal successful yearly gross from that concern by fiscal 2029.
Finally, contempt double-digit nett growth, Qualcomm banal sells astatine a P/E ratio of 16. This indicates that investors person mostly ignored the maturation imaginable of this spot giant. However, with the accelerated maturation successful Qualcomm's newer concern lines, investors whitethorn privation to instrumentality vantage of the debased P/E ratio earlier much investors instrumentality notice.
Will Healy has positions successful Qualcomm. The Motley Fool has positions successful and recommends Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.



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