Broadcomvs.Qualcomm
AVGO vs QCOM · both in Chips & accelerators, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Designs and builds the processors, accelerators and memory that train and run AI.
Broadcom is about 9.3× larger than Qualcomm by market cap; Qualcomm trades at the lower P/E (20.0 vs 45.2).
Side by side
| AVGO | QCOM | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $1.7T | $185B |
| Price | $361.54 | $175.50 |
| Today | +0.4% | −0.3% |
| Return YTD | +4.1% | +2.9% |
| Return 1Y | +4.2% | +4.9% |
| Since June 26, 2026 | −1.0% | −7.3% |
| P/E | 45.2 | 20.0 |
| P/S | 19.4 | 4.2 |
| P/B | 17.4 | 6.7 |
Data as of 2026-10-09 · updates daily after U.S. close
Since June 26, 2026: the change in the closing price, from the daily closes Sectivia records itself since that date.
The two companies
BroadcomAVGO
Custom silicon designed to order: Broadcom builds AI ASICs to hyperscalers' own specifications, Google's TPUs among them. Tomahawk and Jericho chips move the network traffic, and VMware supplies the infrastructure software.
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Snapdragon made Qualcomm the reference point in mobile silicon. Its NPUs run models on the handset or PC itself, and the same platforms now go into cars.
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