Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon responds to a query throughout a keynote dialog at CES 2024, an annual client electronics commerce present, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 10, 2024.
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Qualcomm reported fiscal first-quarter outcomes on Wednesday that topped analysts’ estimates as gross sales of handset chips jumped 16% from a 12 months earlier. The inventory rose nearly 3% in prolonged buying and selling.
This is how the chipmaker did for the quarter ending Dec. 24, per consensus expectations from LSEG, previously often called Refinitiv:
- Earnings per share: $2.75 adjusted vs. $2.37 anticipated
- Income: $9.92 billion adjusted vs. $9.51 billion anticipated
For the present quarter, Qualcomm mentioned it expects adjusted earnings of between $1.73 and $1.93 per share on income of $8.9 billion to $9.7 billion. Consensus expectations, in line with LSEG, have been for earnings of $2.25 per share on $9.3 billion of income.
Web revenue rose 24% in the course of the quarter to $2.77 billion, or $2.48 per share, from $2.24 billion, or $1.98 per share, a 12 months in the past.
Qualcomm is best-known for making smartphone chips — each the modems that join them to mobile networks, in addition to the processors on the coronary heart of high-end Android gadgets.
Below CEO Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm has been working to use its chip know-how to markets past smartphones, together with PCs, automobiles, and digital actuality headsets. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a serious smartphone provider as the worldwide market has slumped over the previous two years.
Qualcomm mentioned it shipped $6.69 billion in handset chips in the course of the December quarter, up 16% year-over-year, a constructive signal for the smartphone market after two years of declines.
Notably, Samsung’s high-end Galaxy telephones launched in January use Qualcomm processors, and the corporate expects that enterprise to proceed for a number of years beneath a brand new deal, foreclosing the chance that the second-largest smartphone maker would eschew Qualcomm for its personal chips.
Qualcomm’s “Web of Issues” enterprise consists of the chips Meta makes use of in its digital actuality headsets. That section noticed gross sales slide 32% to $1.13 billion.
Qualcomm is betting closely on promoting chips to automakers and automotive suppliers, nevertheless it’s a course of that may take years as automotive elements have an extended “qualification” cycle resulting from laws and the wants of the business. Qualcomm’s nascent automotive enterprise, a part of QCT, reported $589 million in gross sales, up 31% on an annual foundation.
QCT, the corporate’s chip gross sales enterprise that features automotive, IoT, and handsets, totaled $8.42 billion in income in the course of the quarter, up 7% on an annual foundation.
The corporate’s worthwhile licensing enterprise, QTL, reported $1.46 billion in income, a 4% annual decline.
Qualcomm mentioned it spent $800 million in share repurchases and $900 million on dividends in the course of the quarter.
