Broadcom is a semiconductors business based in the US. Broadcom shares (AVGO) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $169.58 – a decrease of 2.88% over the previous week. Broadcom employs 37,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $54.5 billion.
April 12, 2025: US President Donald Trump announced a backdated exemption from crippling tariffs – to be granted to smartphones, computers, semiconductors, solar cells and selected other electronic devices. However uncertainty returned within a matter of days, when a Truth Social post from Trump said that these items were "just moving to a different tariff 'bucket.'"
April 8, 2025: Broadcom announced a $10b stock buyback scheme slated for completion by the end of the year. President anc CEO Hock Tan cited "confidence in the strength of Broadcom's diversified semiconductor and infrastructure software product franchises". AVGO stock rose in response by a little over 1% by close of trading.
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| Latest market close | $169.58 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $118.60 - $250.45 |
| 50-day moving average | $193.46 |
| 200-day moving average | $184.13 |
| Wall St. target price | $241.12 |
| PE ratio | 79.5302 |
| Dividend yield | $2.235 (1.38%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.15 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $166.21 from 2025-04-21
| 1 week (2025-04-15) | -7.12% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-03-21) | -13.28% |
| 3 months (2025-01-23) | -30.83% |
| 6 months (2024-10-23) | -4.21% |
| 1 year (2024-04-22) | -86.43% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-04-21) | 171.08% |
| 3 years (2022-04-22) | 201.81% |
| 5 years (2020-04-23) | 629.24% |
Valuing Broadcom stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Broadcom's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Broadcom's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 80x. In other words, Broadcom shares trade at around 80x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Broadcom's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.4526. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Broadcom's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Broadcom's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $28.8 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Broadcom's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $54.5 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 31.77% |
| Gross profit TTM | $41.6 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 6.98% |
| Return on equity TTM | 14.85% |
| Profit margin | 18.47% |
| Book value | $59.22 |
| Market Capitalization | $804 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Broadcom.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 23.54
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Broadcom's overall score of 23.54 (as at 12/31/2018) is pretty good – landing it in it in the 38th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Broadcom is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 5.96/100
Social score: 5.66/100
Governance score: 6.43/100
Controversy score: 3/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Broadcom scored a 3 out of 5 for controversy – a middle-of-the-table result reflecting that Broadcom hasn't always managed to keep its nose clean.
Broadcom Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 23.54 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 38.46 |
| Environmental score | 5.96 |
| Social score | 5.66 |
| Governance score | 6.43 |
| Level of controversy | 3 |
Dividend payout ratio: 41.73% of net profits
Recently Broadcom has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Broadcom shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Broadcom's case, that would currently equate to about $2.235 per share.
While Broadcom's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Broadcom may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Broadcom's most recent dividend payout was on 30 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 19 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Broadcom's shares were split on a 10:1 basis on 14 July 2024 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 10 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Broadcom shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 90% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Broadcom shares which in turn could have impacted Broadcom's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Broadcom's shares have ranged in value from as little as $118.604 up to $250.4491. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Broadcom's is 1.068. This would suggest that Broadcom's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Broadcom Inc. designs, develops, and supplies various semiconductor devices with a focus on complex digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor based devices and analog III-V based products worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Semiconductor Solutions and Infrastructure Software. It provides Ethernet switching and routing custom silicon solutions, optical and copper physical layer devices, and fiber optic transmitter and receiver components; set-top box system-on-chips (SoCs), data over cable service interface specifications cable modem and networking infrastructure, DSL access multiplexer/PON optical line termination products, and Wi-Fi access point SoCs, as well as digital subscriber line (DSL)/cable, passive optical networking (PON) gateways; and fiber optic components and mobile device connectivity solutions. The company also offers RF front end modules and filters; Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and global positioning system/global navigation satellite system SoCs; custom touch controllers; inductive charging application specific integrated circuits; serial attached small computer system interface and redundant array of independent disks controllers and adapters, peripheral component interconnect express switches, fiber channel host bus adapters, read channel based SoCs, custom flash controllers, and preamplifiers; and optocouplers, industrial fiber optics, industrial and medical sensors, motion control encoders and subsystems, light emitting diodes, ethernet PHYs, switch ICs, and camera microcontrollers. Its products are used in various applications in enterprise and data center networking, including artificial intelligence networking and connectivity, home connectivity, set-top boxes, broadband access, telecommunication equipment, smartphones and base stations, data center servers and storage systems, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic displays. Broadcom Inc.
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