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

Amazon’s $60 billion, multi-generation AI-chip collaboration gives Qualcomm a major customer and makes its data-center strategy more tangible than a speculative initiative.

Bearish view

The announcement establishes an important relationship but does not provide evidence of near-term revenue, margins or successful product deployment, leaving the financial payoff uncertain.

Analyst Consensus

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Hold

27 analysts

$180

Current

$180

Low

$179

Average

$180

High

Average target implies -0.64% versus the current price.

Earnings History

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Analyst Consensus

Hold

27 analysts

$180

Current

$180

Low

$179

Average

$180

High

Average target implies -0.64% versus the current price.

Analyst Ratings Synthesis

The supplied consensus is Hold across 27 analysts, with a mean target of $175; consensus low and high targets are unavailable, so the target spread cannot be measured. Other supplied aggregator figures are materially higher, ranging from $191.04 to $204.16, but they use different analyst sets and should not be treated as a directly comparable consensus. The clearest named bearish view is Barclays’ Sell stance, while no named analyst in the evidence is explicitly the most bullish. Revisions were mixed over the past week: RBC Capital raised its target to $180 from $160 while retaining Hold, whereas Barclays remained negative despite the Amazon deal. The substantive disagreement is whether Amazon can convert Qualcomm’s data-center opportunity into durable earnings growth quickly enough to offset handset and Apple-related risks.

Rating Actions

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Firm	Analyst	Rating	Price Target	Upside	Date	Source
RBC Capital	—	Hold Raised price target	$180from $160	-0.1%	Sep 9, 2026	Open the report this row came from

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