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Company Dossier · Information Technology

Broadcom Inc.

AVGONasdaqSemiconductorsWILMINGTON, US-DE, USMega capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • S&P 100
  • Nasdaq-100
  • Russell 1000

What Broadcom Inc. is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to August 2, 2026: $89.1 billion, up 49% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to August 2, 2026: $39.4 billion, up 58% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to August 2, 2026: $1.25 billion, up 145% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to November 2, 2025: $2.45 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to November 2, 2025: $15.7 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (September 2, 2026): sentiment 0.90 on a −1 to +1 scale (confident, opportunity-framed), confidence 0.80 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Latest annual report (filed December 18, 2025): 1 risk factor added, 1 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $270 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 4,860 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+156 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 52 (88 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
  • Headlines in the last 30 days: 21, of which 4 read positive and 0 negative.Palanor headline tone

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Broadcom Inc. is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Steady · Confident

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Steady

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Confident

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

Broadcom Inc.'s borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$59.4B

  • Due within a year $2.3B
  • Longer term $57.2B
  • Default point $30.8B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Aug 2, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

$4.5B

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

PricedAmountCouponMaturesSpreadYield
Jan 6, 2026$1.25B4.600%2033 (7y)+70bp4.641%
Jan 6, 2026$750M4.300%2031 (5y)+60bp4.322%
Jan 6, 2026$1.25B4.950%2036 (10y)+78bp4.961%
Jan 6, 2026$1.25B5.700%2056 (30y)+88bp5.747%
Sep 22, 2025$1.75B4.900%2038 (12y)+78bp4.927%
Sep 22, 2025$1B4.200%2030 (5y)+53bp4.231%
Sep 22, 2025$2.25B4.800%2036 (10y)+68bp4.827%
Jul 7, 2025$2.5B5.200%2035 (10y)+85bp5.247%
Jul 7, 2025$1.75B4.600%2030 (5y)+68bp4.647%
Jul 7, 2025$1.75B4.900%2032 (7y)+78bp4.946%
Jan 6, 2025$1.1B5.200%2032 (7y)+70bp5.221%
Jan 6, 2025$1.1B4.800%2028 (3y)+53bp4.847%

From the pricing term sheets Broadcom Inc. filed with the SEC. Spread is to the benchmark Treasury (or Bund, Gilt) at pricing.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Broadcom Inc.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$39.4BData to Aug 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Broadcom Inc.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Broadcom Inc.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$89.1BData to Aug 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Broadcom Inc.: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$2.5BData to Nov 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Broadcom Inc.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Nov 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Broadcom Inc.: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Nov 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Broadcom Inc.: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Broadcom Inc.: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

13.7Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Broadcom Inc.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.90Data 50 days ago
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Broadcom Inc.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.80Data 50 days ago
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Broadcom Inc.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

1.0Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Broadcom Inc.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

52.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Broadcom Inc.: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$270.3MData 22 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Broadcom Inc.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

4,860Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

News

Business

Broadcom Inc.: headline tone

Net share of positive headlines, trailing 28 days, −1 to +1

0.19Data 5 days ago
ImagePalanor calculation from news headlines (tone words only)

In the news

Headlines that name Broadcom Inc., with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
21 headlines
19% positive · 0% negative
90 days
21 headlines
19% positive · 0% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (INVARIANT LLC)third_quarter 2026
  2. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  3. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MONUMENT ADVOCACY)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  4. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (SALT POINT STRATEGIES)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  5. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (BROADCOM INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.5 million
  6. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: DATA OBJECT-BASED STORAGE CONTROLLERS FOR MANAGING POOLS OF STORAGEUS 12769476
  7. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: MECHANISM FOR MANAGING BARE-METAL CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS FROM AN EMBEDDED HYPERVISORUS 12769572
  8. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR FLOATING-POINT OPERATIONSUS 12769510
  9. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: MACHINE LEARNING PROXY SYSTEMUS 12771688
  10. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: CONTROLLING FLOW PROCESSING BY AN EDGE CLUSTER SPANNING MULTIPLE DATACENTER LOCATIONS OF A PUBLIC CLOUDUS 12771632
  11. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CASSIDY & ASSOCIATES, INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  12. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (SALT POINT STRATEGIES)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  13. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MONUMENT ADVOCACY)second_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  14. Apr 21, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  15. Apr 2, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  16. Mar 2, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  17. Dec 18, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 1 removed
  18. Sep 9, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  19. Jul 11, 20258-K
    Material agreement terminatedItem 1.02
  20. Apr 22, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  21. Jan 13, 20258-K
    Material agreement terminatedItem 1.02
  22. Dec 20, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 10 removed
  23. Dec 14, 202310-K
    Annual report (10-K)5 risk factors added, 2 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Micron Technology MU$133B$59.0BSep 3, 2026
Intel Corporation INTC$57.0B$2.8BJun 27, 2026
Qualcomm Inc. QCOM$44.1B$10.4BJun 28, 2026
Advanced Micro Devices AMD$41.3B$8.4BJun 27, 2026
NVIDIA Corporation NVDA$303B$127BJul 26, 2026
Texas Instruments TXN$19.4B$5.4BJun 30, 2026
Analog Devices ADI$13.9B$4.9BAug 1, 2026
NXP Semiconductors NXPI$12.6B$2.7BMar 29, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1730168
LEI
549300WV6GIDOZJTV909
Wikidata
Q790060
SAM UEI
HBT4VLBF49F3
SAM UEI
CN2VKMBMJXP9

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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