Qualcomm — Company

Signals

7 stories (+17%)

Media momentum

As of 2 Nov 2026 · Visible stories in the last 30 days, compared with the 30 days before.

7 sources

Source diversity

As of 2 Nov 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.

2 events

Release activity

As of 2 Nov 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

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Funding signals

As of 2 Nov 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

Jul 2026 → Oct 2026

Coverage span

As of 2 Nov 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.

Market context

QCOM · NASDAQ · last close $164.79 (30 Oct 2026)

-1.8% over this window · S&P 500 -2.3% (dashed line)

Price moves around recent events

28 Oct Feature update: Alphabet & Amazon Feature update

+1.3% next day, +1.7% vs S&P 500
14 Oct Legal action: Arm & Arm Holdings Legal action

+3.4% next day, +3.1% vs S&P 500 · +3.1% over 5 trading days, +2.6% vs S&P 500
13 Oct Deployment: Microsoft & NVIDIA Deployment

-2.4% next day, -1.3% vs S&P 500 · -0.7% over 5 trading days, +0.5% vs S&P 500
12 Oct Acquisition: Nuvacore & Nuvia Acquisition

+1.4% next day, +1.4% vs S&P 500 · -0.5% over 5 trading days, +1.0% vs S&P 500
24 Sep Feature update: Microsoft & Qualcomm Feature update

+4.0% next day, +3.4% vs S&P 500 · -6.3% over 5 trading days, -5.8% vs S&P 500

Correlation does not establish causation. Market moves have many simultaneous causes — macro news, sector rotation, earnings and unrelated company events — and the timing of our daily closes may not align with when an event actually reached the market (pre-announcements, leaks, after-hours trading). Moves are shown next to the S&P 500 (SPY) over the same window so market-wide swings are visible, not hidden. None of this is investment advice.

Price history

QCOM · daily closes

$164.79 -7.0% · 12 months 52-week high $259.92 · low $121.99

12-month span · monthly close · 30 Oct 2025–30 Oct 2026

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Read QCOM is down 7.0% over twelve months, trading -36.6% from its 52-week high ($259.92, 29 May) — the strongest month was May at +39.8%.

Not investment advice. TLDRocket's market and earnings analysis is automated editorial commentary on public information. It can be wrong or out of date, it is never a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, and it should not be relied on for investment decisions.

Latest earnings

QCOM · quarterly EPS

Next report Wed 4 Nov · after market close Q4 FY2026 est EPS 2.20 est revenue $10.3B 1 day from now

Q3 2026 latest

2.21 EPS

est 2.27 -2.8%

Q2 2026

2.65 EPS

est 2.61 +1.4%

Q1 2026

3.50 EPS

est 3.48 +0.6%

Q4 2025

3.00 EPS

est 2.93 +2.3%

The TLDRocket take Q3 2026 · written 5 Aug 2026

Qualcomm just snapped a three-quarter beat streak. Q3 2026 EPS came in at 2.21 against a 2.27 estimate, a 2.8% miss — the first red mark after three straight positive surprises (2.3% in Q4 2025, 0.6% in Q1 2026, 1.4% in Q2 2026). None of those beats were huge, so this isn't a company that was blowing past Wall Street to begin with; it's one that was landing close to expectations and just missed the landing this time. Nothing in the numbers here tells us why — no guidance or segment detail was given — so treat the miss as a data point, not a diagnosis.

On the product side, the most concrete thing in our coverage is that SpaceX put a Snapdragon chipset inside the AI handheld device it showed investors ahead of its IPO. That's a small but telling data point: Qualcomm's silicon is still the default pick for companies building AI-first hardware outside the traditional phone market, which is exactly the diversification story the company needs given how mature and saturated smartphone chip demand has become. One design win at a pre-IPO company doesn't move the earnings needle, and we don't have volume, pricing, or timeline details on that deal — but it's a reminder that Qualcomm's relevance now rides as much on edge-AI silicon in gadgets like this as it does on the next Snapdragon flagship phone launch.

Put together: a modest miss after modest beats, plus one interesting but unquantified design win with a buzzy new entrant. Not a dramatic quarter, and the coverage we have is thin enough that broader read-throughs — pricing power, competitive pressure from ARM-based rivals, or how much of revenue is diversifying beyond mobile — aren't answerable from what's here.

Read alongside: Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Microsoft Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Nuvia Cristiano Amon

Not investment advice. TLDRocket's market and earnings analysis is automated editorial commentary on public information. It can be wrong or out of date, it is never a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, and it should not be relied on for investment decisions.

Management records

updated 2 Oct 2026

Observed in public listings; this is not a verified current management roster.

Cristiano R. Amon LinkedIn CEO
Heather Ace CHRO & EVP, Human Resources
Anonymous CTO
Alex Katouzian EVP & Group General Manager, Mobile, Compute, XR, & Wearable AI Businesses at Qualcomm
Don McGuire SVP, Chief Marketing Officer
Alexander H. Rogers President, Qualcomm Technology Licensing and Global Affairs
Enrico Salvatori LinkedIn Senior Vice President and President of Qualcomm Europe
Christopher Patrick SVP and General Manager
Angela Baker Chief Sustainability Officer And Vice President
O.h. Kwon SVP & President Of Qualcomm APAC
Colin Ryan Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer, Qualcomm Incorporated
Nakul Duggal LinkedIn Executive Vice President

+ 15 more tracked

View 12-month management history

Recent source observations

2 Oct Unverified observation Kimberly O'Neill Not found in a partial source snapshot (previously listed as Executive Assistant To The Chief Executive Officer); departure unconfirmed.
2 Oct Unverified observation Nakul Duggal Source title changed: SVP & GM, Automotive → Executive Vice President; role change unconfirmed. LinkedIn
2 Sep Unverified observation Alex Rogers Not found in a partial source snapshot (previously listed as President, Qualcomm Technology Licensing & Global Affairs); departure unconfirmed.
2 Sep Unverified observation Pr Chidambaram Not found in a partial source snapshot (previously listed as Senior Vice President And Qualcomm Fellow); departure unconfirmed.
2 Sep Unverified observation Vk Jones Not found in a partial source snapshot (previously listed as Senior Vice President, Engineering And Qualcomm Fellow); departure unconfirmed.
2 Sep Unverified observation Alexander H. Rogers Source title changed: President, Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL) & Global Affairs → President, Qualcomm Technology Licensing and Global Affairs; role change unconfirmed.

Latest developments

Feature update: Alphabet & Amazon TechCrunch · 2 days ago · 0 Market development: Qualcomm IEEE Spectrum · 3 days ago · 0 Deployment: NVIDIA & Microsoft The Verge · 2 weeks ago · 0 Legal action: Arm & Qualcomm The Star · 2 weeks ago · 0 Legal action: Arm Holdings & Qualcomm CNBC · 2 weeks ago · 0 Market development: Qualcomm Sources · 2 weeks ago · 0 Market development: Nuvacore & Qualcomm Tech Funding News · 2 weeks ago · 0 Feature update: Microsoft & Qualcomm Trending Topics · 1 month ago · 2

Timeline

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Products & technology

Develops Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 · 3 sources
Develops Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 · 2 sources
Supplies Pixel Watch 5 · 1 source
Deploys Copilot+ PC · 1 source
Integrated with Modular · 1 source
SpaceX integrated with this company · 1 source
Arm Holdings develops this company · 1 source

Partnerships

Microsoft partnered with this company · 2 sources

Investment & ownership

Acquired Nuvia · 1 source

People

Employed by Cristiano Amon · 1 source

Competition

Competes with Arm · 1 source
Arm competes with this company · 1 source