Qualcomm Earnings & Guidance Wins… Now $100+ Billion In Market Value (QCOM)
QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is out with its quarterly earnings at $0.97 EPS on an adjusted basis and with $4.68 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $0.90 EPS on $4.57 billion in revenues. MSM units in the quarter…
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Next quarter guidance is $0.91 to $0.97 EPS on $4.6 to $5.0 billion in revenues, while the consensus estimates are $0.89 EPS and $4.49 billion in sales. For fiscal year 2012, Qualcomm is offering guidance of $3.55 to $3.75 EPS on sales of $18.7 to $19.7 billion; estimates are $3.59 EPS and $18.48 billion in sales. The company sees 146 to 154 million MSM units shipped in the current quarter.
The company ended its latest quarter with a cash arsenal of $22 billion or so if you include the cash equivalents and short-term investments.
Shares closed up 1.25% at $59.56 and the 52-week range is $45.98 to $59.84 and shares are trading up around $62.00 after a near-4% gain in the after-hours.
Keep in mind that the market cap hit $100 billion today and that will drive the market well over the $100 billion mark if its holds up after the conference call. Beating earnings estimates and raising guidance is welcomed.
JON C. OGG
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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.
