QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM) Analyst Ratings & Price Targets

QUALCOMM Incorporated

QCOM · Nasdaq

Symbol: QCOM
Type: Stock
Sector: Technology
Industry: Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment
Exchange: Nasdaq

Qualcomm is a global computing leader at the center of the AI era, enabling intelligence to scale from the most personal devices to large-scale infrastructure. Building on more than four decades of innovation, we develop platforms and solutions that bring together advanced AI, high-performance, low-power computing and industry-leading connectivity-powering products and services used around the world. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress. Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Key Issues

Bullish view

Qualcomm’s AI infrastructure pivot is described as underappreciated, and coverage points to AI wins, guidance and expansion into data-center networking as potential growth drivers.

Bearish view

The supplied evidence does not quantify AI or data-center revenue, so it does not establish that these opportunities can meaningfully offset the company’s dependence on its established mobile business.

Analyst Consensus

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Hold

27 analysts

$181

Current

$169

Low

$180

Average

$169

High

Average target implies -0.57% versus the current price.

Earnings History

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Analyst Consensus

Hold

27 analysts

$181

Current

$169

Low

$180

Average

$169

High

Average target implies -0.57% versus the current price.

Analyst Ratings Synthesis

Consensus is Hold across 27 analysts. The supplied target snapshot gives a mean of $180 and lists both the low and high target as $168.85; because the stated mean exceeds both endpoints, it cannot establish a valid target range, clustering or spread. It also does not identify the most or least bullish analysts. No analyst rating or target revisions attributable to the week of October 5 are provided, so the direction of weekly revisions cannot be established. The only named action in the evidence is Seaport Global’s March 16, 2026 downgrade from Neutral to Sell, with its target reduced 11.46% to $168.85; it predates this reporting week. The evidence therefore does not establish the substantive analyst disagreement behind the target figures.

Rating Actions

2 firms captured

Firm	Analyst	Rating	Price Target	Upside	Date	Source
RBC Capital	—	Hold Raised price target	$180from $160	-0.6%	Sep 9, 2026	Open the report this row came from
Seaport Global	—	Sell Downgraded from Neutral to Sell	$169	-6.7%	Mar 16, 2026

Research Reports

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B OF A GLBL RES

BAIRD R W

BARCLAYS CAPITA

CANACCORD GENUI

CANTOR FITZGERA

CITIGROUP

DAIWA AMERICA

DEUTSCHE BK SEC

DZ BANK AG

EDWARD JONES

HSBC GLOBAL RES

JP MORGAN SECUR

KEYBANC CAP MKT

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