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Company Dossier · Information Technology

Qualcomm Inc.

QCOMNasdaqSemiconductorsWILMINGTON, US-DE, USLarge capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • S&P 100
  • Nasdaq-100
  • Russell 1000

What Qualcomm 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 June 28, 2026: $44.1 billion, up 1.9% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 28, 2026: $10.4 billion, down 10% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 28, 2026: $1.99 billion, up 91% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to September 28, 2025: $8.79 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to September 28, 2025: $1.49 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 29, 2026): sentiment 0.40 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.80 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Latest annual report (filed November 5, 2025): 0 risk factors added, 7 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $5.9 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 3,041 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+303 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 168 (281 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
  • Headlines in the last 30 days: 19, of which 1 read positive and 2 negative.Palanor headline tone

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Qualcomm 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 · Hedging

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Steady

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Hedging

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 →

Qualcomm 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

$13.3B

  • Due within a year $2.5B
  • Longer term $10.8B
  • Default point $7.9B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Jun 28, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

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

PricedAmountCouponMaturesSpreadYield
May 19, 2025$500M4.500%2030 (5y)+45bp4.509%
May 19, 2025$400M4.750%2032 (7y)+60bp4.851%
May 19, 2025$600M5.000%2035 (10y)+67bp5.123%

From the pricing term sheets Qualcomm 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

Qualcomm Inc.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

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

$10.4BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Qualcomm Inc.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

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

Qualcomm Inc.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$44.1BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Qualcomm Inc.: share buybacks by fiscal year

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

$8.8BData to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Qualcomm Inc.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

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

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

Qualcomm 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 Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Qualcomm Inc.: debt due within a year and cash

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

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

Qualcomm Inc.: interest coverage

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

14.8Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Qualcomm Inc.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.40Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Qualcomm Inc.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.80Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Qualcomm Inc.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Nov 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Qualcomm Inc.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

168Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Qualcomm Inc.: insider net buying

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

−$5.9MData 22 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Qualcomm Inc.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

3,041Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

News

Business

Qualcomm Inc.: headline tone

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

−0.05Data 5 days ago
ImagePalanor calculation from news headlines (tone words only)

In the news

Headlines that name Qualcomm 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
19 headlines
5% positive · 11% negative
90 days
23 headlines
4% positive · 9% 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 (CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  2. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (QUALCOMM, INCORPORATED)third_quarter 2026 · $1.3 million
  3. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  4. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS)third_quarter 2026 · $0.2 million
  5. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: HIGH VOLTAGE SWITCH DESIGN IN A LOW VOLTAGE PROCESS NODE WITH SMALL QUIESCENT CURRENTUS 12771232
  6. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: TRANSPARENT FINGERPRINT SENSORUS 12770426
  7. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: AUDIO PROCESSINGUS 12772018
  8. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: AUDIO PROCESSINGUS 12772017
  9. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: Method and Apparatus for Saving and Restoring Architecture State Information of Processing Elements to Memory During Power State TransitionsUS 12769614
  10. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (COVINGTON & BURLING LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.6 million
  11. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (TIBER CREEK GROUP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  12. Oct 18, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  13. Oct 12, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  14. Sep 11, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application
  15. Sep 4, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application: QUALCOMM SCALER
  16. Jul 27, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application
  17. Jun 15, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application: DRAGONFLY
  18. Jun 15, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application: QUALCOMM DRAGONFLY
  19. Mar 19, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  20. Jan 16, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  21. Dec 16, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  22. Nov 5, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 7 removed
  23. Sep 2, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  24. Aug 25, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  25. May 22, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  26. May 13, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  27. Mar 20, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  28. Dec 12, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  29. Nov 6, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  30. Nov 1, 202310-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 1 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
Advanced Micro Devices AMD$41.3B$8.4BJun 27, 2026
Intel Corporation INTC$57.0B$2.8BJun 27, 2026
Broadcom Inc. AVGO$89.1B$39.4BAug 2, 2026
Texas Instruments TXN$19.4B$5.4BJun 30, 2026
Micron Technology MU$133B$59.0BSep 3, 2026
Analog Devices ADI$13.9B$4.9BAug 1, 2026
NXP Semiconductors NXPI$12.6B$2.7BMar 29, 2026
Marvell Technology MRVL$9.4B$1.7BAug 1, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
804328
LEI
H1J8DDZKZP6H7RWC0H53
Wikidata
Q544847
SAM UEI
VGLXNJSGWA84

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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