Broadcom Inc

Broadcom Inc is an American designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products, serving data centre, networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage and industrial markets. Broadcom Inc is headquartered in San Jose, California with Tan Hock Eng as its president and CEO.

Avago Technologies Limited took the Broadcom part of the Broadcom Corporation name after acquiring it in January 2016. The ticker symbol AVGO that represented old Avago now represents the new merged entity. Broadcom Inc has a rich history that dates to 1961 as the company that would later become Broadcom Inc was established in 1961 as a semiconductor products division of Hewlett-Packard.

In 2015, Avago announced that it would buy Broadcom Corporation for $37 billion ($17 billion cash and $20 billion in shares), and the combined company was named Broadcom Ltd., with an annual revenue of $15 billion and a market value of $77 billion. In 2016, Broadcom proposed merging with Brocade Communications Systems and in 2017, announced it would relocate its legal address from Singapore to Delaware. The parent company was then being renamed from Broadcom Ltd. to Broadcom Inc.

The pre-2016-merger Broadcom, Broadcom Corp., remains as a wholly owned subsidiary of the renamed parent Broadcom Inc. In 2018 Broadcom Inc announced that it had completed the acquisition of CA Technologies and in 2019 the company acquired the enterprise security business of Symantec Corporation (the consumer software portion of which is now known as NortonLifeLock) for $10.7 billion in cash.

In 2019, Broadcom Inc was announced the 5th best stock of the 2010s, with a total return of 1,956%. In February 2025, Broadcom Inc announced the world’s first Wi-Fi 6E client device, the BCM4389.

Broadcom Inc oversees a high-value product portfolio including a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software applications that offers semiconductor devices with a focus on complex digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor-based devices and analogue III-V based products worldwide.

Today, Broadcom Inc is truly one of the most valuable technology companies in the world with a market capitalization of US$ 198.218 billion recorded in July 2025. In 2025 the total staff compliment for Broadcom Inc was more than 21 000.

Being a designer and manufacturer of semiconductor and infrastructure software products, used in applications such as data centres, networking, broadband, and wireless, Broadcom Inc. top three growth opportunities that the company and its shareholders must look forward to, includes 5G, Software and Infrastructure. Regarding to 5G Broadcom Inc makes several chips critical to the cellular subsystems of high-end smartphones.

The capabilities of cellular modems increase each year, which necessitates an increase in the capabilities of the accompanying radio frequency (RF) chips that Broadcom Inc supplies. Such increases in capabilities usually lead to higher selling prices for the RF chips and revenue growth for Broadcom.

The industry’s transition to 5G wireless promises greater bandwidth and lower latency compared to the 4G LTE solutions and promises to boost Broadcom Inc RF chip business. The confidence in 5G, coupled with the impending transition to Wi-Fi 6 at its major customers, suggests that the company’s wireless revenue would return to double-digit growth in fiscal 2025, following a temporary dip in fiscal 2019.

Regarding Software Broadcom Inc announced in the previous year that it planned to acquire mainframe software specialist CA Technologies, a move firstly viewed as baffling, since Broadcom Inc makes its money by selling semiconductors and not software. It appears that investor comfort around that decision improved dramatically once the CEO explained the company’s thinking about the acquisition to shareholders.

With that acquisition Broadcom Inc created a complementary revenue stream to its semiconductors’ solutions in the form of infrastructure software. The CA buy did help Broadcom Inc grow its infrastructure software business and the company was adamant to build upon it through more acquisitions consistent with its business model.

Investors may expect Broadcom Inc to leverage its financial muscle to keep piecing together a large and growing infrastructure software business. Software companies experience substantial operating expenses but also tend to enjoy extremely high gross margin profiles. Broadcom Inc’s software efforts should allow it to significantly grow its gross margin profile over time and since the company is well-known for its operational efficiency, it should be able to keep the operating expenses of its software efforts in check, ultimately resulting into significant profitability growth over time.

Regarding Infrastructure, Broadcom Inc’s largest business is its wired infrastructure segment with income from that almost half of it during previous years, but slightly declining lately. The current growth that Broadcom Inc enjoyed in its networking and compute offload segment occurred despite the company having not launched any major milestone products.

Investors should be looking at another strong year of growth for Broadcom’s networking and compute offload segment within its wired business. Broadcom Inc has also increased its profit and cash flow through aggressive cost-cutting and acquisition synergies.

The global spread of coronavirus, and the resulting lockdowns and quarantine had initially led to a drop in semiconductor demand across a variety of industries, but demand has since recovered, which is evident from Broadcom Inc’s Q2 2025 earnings. As lockdowns is being lifted globally and semiconductor demand continuing to rise, especially from the 5G sector, Broadcom Inc may continue seeing strong revenue growth in the medium term.

Broadcom Inc trades its shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) under the stock symbol AVGO. Broadcom Inc forms part of both the NASDAQ-100, S&P 100 component and S&P 500 component.
An analysis on the market performance for the first quarter of 2025 indicated a total revenue of US$ 25,553,000,000 along with a gross profit of US$ 15,072,000,000 and EBITDA of US$ 13,004,000,000.

Up from a low in March 2025, at the current price of $480 per share, it is believed that Broadcom Inc stock has further upside potential. Broadcom stock rose from $190 in March 2025 to $480 currently, much more than the S&P, which increased by around 95% from its lows.

Broadcom Inc stock is up 1.5x from the level it was at before the pandemic and it is possible that its stock could rise almost 15% to fresh highs above $550, driven by expectations of steady, continuing demand growth and strong Q2 2025 results. Broadcom Inc investors have several growth drivers to look forward to in the near and longer term since the company looks composed to profit from the transition to 5G in smartphones, building out a potentially profitable software business, and the largest part of its wired infrastructure business looks set to experience solid growth.

Data from this analysis should be weighed against forecasted performance during this pandemic, but for now, prices on shares and in turn dividends remain unaffected, which provides shareholders with assurance that they will have a strong buy-in on NASDAQ.

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