Broadcom (AVGO) is trading up at $338.24 (+1.09%) on NASDAQ, as of the latest quote. It is a S&P 500 constituent in the Information Technology sector.
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Broadcom revenue & net income history (FY2016–FY2025)
RevenueNet incomeNet margin (right axis, %)
Broadcom annual financial statements
FY2016Oct 2016
FY2017Oct 2017
FY2018Nov 2018
FY2019Nov 2019
FY2020Nov 2020
FY2021Oct 2021
FY2022Oct 2022
FY2023Oct 2023
FY2024Nov 2024
FY2025Nov 2025
Income statement
Revenue
$13.2B
$17.6B
$20.8B
$22.6B
$23.9B
$27.4B
$33.2B
$35.8B
$51.6B
$63.9B
Growth (year over year)
—
+33.2%
+18.2%
+8.4%
+5.7%
+14.9%
+21.0%
+7.9%
+44.0%
+23.9%
Gross profit
$5.94B
$8.51B
$10.7B
$12.5B
$13.5B
$16.8B
$22.1B
$24.7B
$32.5B
$43.3B
Gross margin
44.9%
48.2%
51.5%
55.2%
56.6%
61.4%
66.5%
68.9%
63.0%
67.8%
Operating income
−$409.0M
$2.37B
$5.13B
$3.44B
$4.01B
$8.52B
$14.2B
$16.2B
$13.5B
$25.5B
Operating margin
−3.1%
13.4%
24.6%
15.2%
16.8%
31.0%
42.8%
45.2%
26.1%
39.9%
Net income
−$1.74B
$1.69B
$12.3B
$2.69B
$2.66B
$6.44B
$11.5B
$14.1B
$5.89B
$23.1B
Net margin
−13.1%
9.6%
58.8%
11.9%
11.1%
23.4%
34.6%
39.3%
11.4%
36.2%
EPS (diluted)
−$0.49
$0.40
$2.84
$0.64
$0.63
$1.50
$2.65
$3.30
$1.23
$4.77
Balance sheet
Cash and equivalents
$3.10B
$11.2B
$4.29B
$5.05B
$7.62B
$12.2B
$12.4B
$14.2B
$9.35B
$16.2B
Total assets
—
$54.4B
$50.1B
$67.5B
$75.9B
$75.6B
$73.2B
$72.9B
$165.6B
$171.1B
Total liabilities
—
$31.2B
$23.5B
$42.5B
$52.0B
$50.6B
$50.5B
$48.9B
$98.0B
$89.8B
Long-term debt
—
$17.4B
$17.5B
$30.0B
$40.2B
$41.2B
$39.1B
$37.6B
$66.3B
$62.0B
Shareholders' equity
$21.9B
$20.3B
$26.7B
$24.9B
$23.9B
$25.0B
$22.7B
$24.0B
$67.7B
$81.3B
Cash flow
Operating cash flow
$3.41B
$6.55B
$8.88B
$9.70B
$12.1B
$13.8B
$16.7B
$18.1B
$20.0B
$27.5B
Capital expenditure
$723.0M
$1.07B
$635.0M
$432.0M
$463.0M
$443.0M
$424.0M
$452.0M
$548.0M
$623.0M
Free cash flow
$2.69B
$5.48B
$8.24B
$9.27B
$11.6B
$13.3B
$16.3B
$17.6B
$19.4B
$26.9B
Dividends paid
$750.0M
$1.75B
$3.00B
$4.24B
$5.53B
$6.21B
$7.03B
$7.64B
$9.81B
$11.1B
Share buybacks
$0
$0
$7.26B
$5.43B
$0
$0
$7.00B
$5.82B
$7.18B
$2.45B
RevenueNet incomeNet margin (right axis, %)
Broadcom quarterly financial statements
Q4 FY24†Nov 2024
Q1 FY25Feb 2025
Q2 FY25May 2025
Q3 FY25Aug 2025
Q4 FY25†Nov 2025
Q1 FY26Feb 2026
Q2 FY26May 2026
Q3 FY26Aug 2026
Income statement
Revenue
$14.1B
$14.9B
$15.0B
$16.0B
$18.0B
$19.3B
$22.2B
$29.6B
Growth (year over year)
+51.2%
+24.7%
+20.2%
+22.0%
+28.2%
+29.5%
+47.9%
+85.5%
Gross profit
$9.00B
$10.1B
$10.2B
$10.7B
$12.2B
$13.2B
$15.4B
$20.5B
Gross margin
64.1%
68.0%
68.0%
67.1%
68.0%
68.1%
69.5%
69.1%
Operating income
$4.63B
$6.26B
$5.83B
$5.89B
$7.51B
$8.56B
$10.8B
$16.0B
Operating margin
32.9%
42.0%
38.8%
36.9%
41.7%
44.3%
48.6%
53.9%
Net income
$4.32B
$5.50B
$4.96B
$4.14B
$8.52B
$7.35B
$9.31B
$13.1B
Net margin
30.8%
36.9%
33.1%
26.0%
47.3%
38.1%
42.0%
44.2%
EPS (diluted)
$0.91
$1.14
$1.03
$0.85
$1.75
$1.50
$1.91
$2.68
Balance sheet
Cash and equivalents
$9.35B
$9.31B
$9.47B
$10.7B
$16.2B
$14.2B
$19.6B
$24.0B
Total assets
$165.6B
$165.4B
$164.6B
$165.6B
$171.1B
$169.9B
$179.2B
$188.1B
Total liabilities
$98.0B
$95.6B
$95.0B
$92.3B
$89.8B
$90.0B
$91.5B
$88.5B
Long-term debt
$66.3B
$60.9B
$61.8B
$62.8B
$62.0B
$63.8B
$62.7B
$57.2B
Shareholders' equity
$67.7B
$69.8B
$69.6B
$73.3B
$81.3B
$79.9B
$87.7B
$99.7B
Cash flow
Operating cash flow
$5.60B
$6.11B
$6.55B
$7.17B
$7.70B
$8.26B
$10.5B
$14.2B
Capital expenditure
$122.0M
$100.0M
$144.0M
$142.0M
$237.0M
$250.0M
$231.0M
$532.0M
Free cash flow
$5.48B
$6.01B
$6.41B
$7.02B
$7.47B
$8.01B
$10.3B
$13.7B
Dividends paid
$2.48B
$2.77B
$2.79B
$2.79B
$2.80B
$3.09B
$3.09B
$3.10B
Share buybacks
$0
$0
$2.45B
$0
$0
$7.85B
$600.0M
$0
From Broadcom's 10-K and 10-Q filings with the SEC; its fiscal year ends in November. Each period shows the latest figure the company has reported for it, including restatements. Net margin is our own calculation from those reported figures (net income ÷ revenue); it is left blank where revenue is zero or missing. † Quarter derived from the company's year-to-date or full-year totals. Filings on SEC EDGAR →
Broadcom vs the Information Technology sector and the S&P 500
Broadcom's latest reported figures next to the median of the other 75 S&P 500 Information Technology companies and of the other 502 S&P 500 companies; each median is taken over the companies with a comparable figure (counts in the footnote). A median is the middle value, not an average, so one very large company does not move it.
Broadcom compared with the median Information Technology company and the median S&P 500 company
Broadcom: fiscal year ended November 2025, from its 10-K and 10-Q filings with the SEC. Medians computed October 20, 2026 from each company's latest annual filing (fiscal years ending between July 2025 and September 2026) and our price archive. Prices for every company, Broadcom included, are the last regular-session prices of October 19, 2026; the 1-year change compares that price with each company's last close on or before October 20, 2025. Net margin and price change are our calculations from reported figures. Each median counts only the companies with a comparable figure (sector / S&P 500): revenue growth 75/496, net margin 75/496, dividend per share 35/349, 1-year price change 67/490; the reasons below can overlap. 12 are left out of the price figure because our archive holds no comparable close for them; dividend medians are among the 35 sector and 349 S&P 500 companies reporting a per-share dividend. The S&P 500 price figure is the middle company's change, not the index's return.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. As of 2026, Broadcom is one of the largest companies globally.
Broadcom Inc. describes itself in its Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 as a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and semiconductor-based solutions and infrastructure software solutions. Its origins trace to AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard, and it has grown through acquisitions including LSI Corporation, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade Communications Systems, CA, Symantec Enterprise Security and VMware. Its chips go into AI and enterprise data centers, networking equipment, servers and storage, broadband and set-top boxes, wireless devices and industrial systems; its AI products include custom accelerators (XPUs), Ethernet switching and routing silicon, network interface cards and optical components, and in some cases racks and systems built on its XPUs. Its software business, which includes VMware Cloud Foundation, mainframe, cybersecurity (Symantec and Carbon Black) and enterprise software, serves large enterprises and government agencies.
Broadcom's fiscal year is a 52- or 53-week year ending on the Sunday closest to October 31; fiscal 2025 was the 52 weeks ended November 2, 2025. It reports two segments, semiconductor solutions and infrastructure software. In fiscal 2025 total net revenue was $63,887 million and net income $23,126 million, according to the 10-K. Direct sales to one semiconductor solutions customer, a distributor, made up 32% of net revenue, and Broadcom believes its top five end customers accounted for approximately 40% through all channels. About 95% of the wafers made by its contract manufacturers in fiscal 2025 came from TSMC. It completed the acquisition of VMware on November 22, 2023, for approximately $30,788 million in cash and 544 million shares of Broadcom common stock with a fair value of $53,398 million, and on July 1, 2024 sold VMware's end-user computing business to KKR & Co. Inc. for cash consideration of $3.5 billion, after working capital adjustments. It completed a ten-for-one stock split on July 12, 2024, according to its 10-K for fiscal 2024.
According to its 10-Q for the quarter ended August 2, 2026 (unaudited), net revenue was $29,591 million for the quarter and $71,089 million for the three fiscal quarters, with semiconductor solutions revenue of $48,363 million and infrastructure software revenue of $22,726 million over the three quarters. One distributor customer accounted for 50% of net revenue in the quarter. Remaining performance obligations under firmly committed multi-year contracts were approximately $179.2 billion, including a long-term contract for custom AI accelerators entered in the quarter ended May 3, 2026, and Broadcom expects about 25% of that amount to be recognized as revenue over the next 12 months. In June 2026 it launched what it calls the AI XPV platform, with an initial tranche of $35 billion led by a financial partner (named as Apollo in its 10-Q for the quarter ended May 3, 2026), which took on agreements to buy AI racks based on Broadcom-designed custom AI accelerators and the related lease agreements with a customer; Broadcom agreed to a backstop of the customer's lease obligations with a maximum potential liability of approximately $29 billion; no amounts had been paid under it as of August 2, 2026.
In 2026 Broadcom disclosed long-term agreements in Form 8-K filings: in April, to develop and supply custom Tensor Processing Units for Google's future TPU generations and to supply networking and other components for Google's next-generation AI racks through up to 2031, alongside an expanded collaboration among Broadcom, Google and Anthropic under which Anthropic, beginning in 2027, will access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation TPU-based AI compute through Broadcom, consumption that the filing says depends on Anthropic's continued commercial success; and in July, new multi-year agreements with Apple to develop and supply custom ASIC silicon products through 2031. In its September 2, 2026 results release, furnished with a Form 8-K, Broadcom guided to fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of approximately $34.8 billion; this is a company projection, not a reported result.
Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered at 3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California, and its common stock trades on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol AVGO. It had approximately 33,000 employees at November 2, 2025, about 57% of them in research and development. Hock E. Tan has been President and Chief Executive Officer since March 2006, and Henry Samueli signed the fiscal 2025 10-K as Chairman of the Board. Amie Thuener, previously Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Alphabet Inc., was appointed Chief Financial Officer effective June 12, 2026, succeeding Kirsten M. Spears, who retired, according to a Form 8-K, and she signed the 10-Q for the quarter ended August 2, 2026 as Chief Financial Officer. Stockholders elected eight directors at the April 20, 2026 annual meeting; Eddy W. Hartenstein, who had said he would retire from the board at the end of his term at that meeting, was not among the nominees, and the board was reduced to eight members, according to Form 8-K filings.
Unconditional purchase commitments, August 2, 2026 (unaudited; primarily inventory, of which $52,674 million is due in fiscal 2027 and $72,952 million in fiscal 2028)
Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (52 weeks ended November 2, 2025), total net revenue, in millions as filed
Dec 18, 2025
Products
Networking Connectivity
Name
Released
What it is
Custom Silicon Solutions (custom accelerators, or XPUs)
—
Technology and IP platforms on which customers design ASICs for AI and high-performance computing, networking and storage. The ASICs are built to each customer's specifications, such as custom accelerators or XPUs, for hyperscalers, companies with AI frontier models and system integrators.1
Ethernet Switching & Routing
—
Ethernet switching and routing products for enterprise and AI data center, service provider and enterprise networks. Broadcom says its switching fabric technologies can build flat networks supporting tens of thousands of servers.1
Ethernet NIC Controllers
—
Ethernet network interface controllers designed for high-performance virtualization, intelligent flow processing, secure data center connectivity and machine learning.1
Physical Layer Devices
—
Transceivers that receive and transmit Ethernet data packets over a physical medium such as copper wire or optical fibers, built on a proprietary digital signal processing (DSP) architecture and supporting features such as energy efficient Ethernet, data encryption and time synchronization.1
Automotive Ethernet products
—
Automotive Ethernet products, including PHYs, switches and camera microcontrollers for in-vehicle connectivity and smart vision, listed with Broadcom's physical layer devices.1
Fiber Optic Components
—
Optical components for the Ethernet networking, storage, and access, metro- and long-haul telecommunication markets, which enable the high-speed reception and transmission of data through optical fibers.1
Wireless Device Connectivity Solutions
Name
Released
What it is
RF Semiconductor Devices
—
Multi-chip front-end modules, filter modules and discrete filters that filter, amplify and route radio frequency (RF) signals, built on Broadcom's FBAR filter technology.1
Connectivity Solutions
—
Wi-Fi chipsets, Bluetooth silicon and software, and combination chips that integrate Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, for wireless devices such as smartphones, tablets and wearables.1
Custom Touch Controllers
—
Controllers that process signals from the touch screens of wireless devices.1
Inductive Charging ASICs
—
Inductive charging products for wireless and wearable devices, which Broadcom describes as highly integrated solutions.1
Servers and Storage System Solutions
Name
Released
What it is
PCIe Switches
—
Switches supporting the PCIe communication standards, used in AI and non-AI applications. Broadcom describes PCIe as the primary interconnection mechanism inside modern computing systems.1
SAS & RAID Products
—
SAS and RAID controllers and adapters that transmit data between a host computer, such as a server, and storage devices such as hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs).1
Fibre Channel Products
—
Fibre channel host bus adapters that connect host computers, such as servers, to fibre channel storage area network (FC SAN) products.1
HDD & SSD Solutions
—
Read channel-based systems-on-chip and preamplifiers for hard disk drives, and custom flash controllers that manage the flash memory in solid state drives.1
Broadband Solutions
Name
Released
What it is
Set-Top Box
—
System-on-chip platform solutions for cable, satellite, IPTV, over-the-top and terrestrial set-top boxes.1
Broadband Access
—
System-on-chip platform solutions for DSL, cable, PON and wireless LAN, for customer premise equipment such as broadband modems, residential gateways and Wi-Fi access points and routers, and for central office deployments.1
Industrial
Name
Released
What it is
Industrial products
—
Optocouplers, industrial fiber optics, industrial and medical sensors, motion encoders, light emitting diode devices and Ethernet ICs, used in industrial automation, power generation and distribution, medical systems, defense and aerospace, and vehicle subsystems.1
Private Cloud Software Portfolio
Name
Released
What it is
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
—
Integrated compute, networking, storage, management and security across supported environments. VCF includes native Kubernetes to support both virtual machines and containerized workloads.1
VMware Cloud Foundation Edge
—
Designed for the management of edge apps and infrastructure across many sites.1
VMware vSphere Foundation
—
Software-defined compute, storage, networking and intelligent operations, intended to help customers run modern applications on their existing infrastructure.1
Telco Cloud Platform
—
Built on VCF, it supports network operations for telecom operators and communications service providers as they modernize their networks and offer 5G and cloud services.1
VMware Private AI
—
A capability that, when added to VCF, enables the use of generative AI technologies while addressing data privacy and compliance needs.1
VMware Live Recovery
—
A disaster and ransomware recovery advanced service for VCF customers.1
Application Networking and Security Portfolio (vDefend, Avi Load Balancer)
—
Zero-trust lateral security and load balancing. VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer are available as advanced services for VCF.1
Application Development and Data Services Portfolio (Tanzu)
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Tanzu solutions that provide an AI application development platform with built-in best practices, plus access to low-latency, real-time data.1
Mainframe Software Portfolio
Name
Released
What it is
AIOps & Automation
—
An integrated platform for unifying tools, workflows and data across diverse sources, to deliver end-to-end visibility into enterprise applications, with enhanced issue detection and streamlined remediation.1
Databases & Data Management
—
Tools that store, organize and manage mainframe data.1
DevX & DevOps
—
Solutions that help customers accelerate software delivery while increasing code quality using agile processes and tools, with an open-first strategy for modernizing the mainframe using open source.1
Cybersecurity & Compliance Management
—
Security solutions designed to align a customer's mainframe platform with its enterprise security control mandates, and to protect crucial mainframe data to enable compliance.1
Beyond Code Programs
—
Programs that educate and upskill customers' mainframe workforce and provide expert guidance, to help them get the most out of their mainframe investments.1
Foundational & Open Mainframe Solutions
—
Core mainframe capabilities including security, automation, operations and resilience, plus modern, API-driven, cloud-integrated tools that open the mainframe to hybrid IT environments.1
Cybersecurity Portfolio
Name
Released
What it is
Endpoint Security (Symantec and Carbon Black)
—
Symantec and Carbon Black endpoint security solutions designed to prevent, detect and respond to emerging threats, through an AI-driven security console and single agent solutions.1
Network Security
—
Network security solutions and advanced threat protection technologies designed to stop inbound and outbound threats targeting end users.1
Information Security
—
Integrated information security solutions based on a single-policy framework, designed to identify risky users and applications and protect customers' most sensitive data, including across endpoints.1
Application Security
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Solutions designed to secure critical systems, prevent unwanted changes and provide continuous compliance, including for end-of-life operating systems, fixed function devices and air-gapped systems.1
Identity & Access Management
—
A solution that mitigates the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive resources and data by identifying legitimate users, enforcing granular access control policies and streamlining access governance.1
Enterprise Software Portfolio
Name
Released
What it is
Enterprise Software Portfolio
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Software that helps enterprises plan, develop and deliver software, organized in the domains of AIOps, Automation and Network Observability, DevOps, and Value Stream Management.1
FC SAN Management
Name
Released
What it is
FC SAN Management
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Software-based management tools for Broadcom's fibre channel storage area networking (FC SAN) modules, switches and subsystems.1
Segments and products
Semiconductor solutions: All of Broadcom's semiconductor-based product lines and its IP licensing, sold into five end markets: networking connectivity (including custom AI accelerators, Ethernet switching and routing, NICs, PHYs and fiber optic components), wireless device connectivity, servers and storage systems, broadband, and industrial. Net revenue was $36,858 million in fiscal 2025, $30,096 million in 2024 and $28,182 million in 2023, and operating income was $21,232 million, $16,759 million and $16,486 million, as reported in the 10-K for fiscal 2025, which attributes the 2025 revenue increase to strong demand for networking solutions, primarily custom AI accelerators and AI networking products. The one customer, a distributor, that accounted for 32% of total net revenue in fiscal 2025 is in this segment.1
Infrastructure software: Private cloud (VMware Cloud Foundation and related products), mainframe software, cybersecurity and enterprise software portfolios, and the fibre channel storage area networking (FC SAN) business. Net revenue was $27,029 million in fiscal 2025, $21,478 million in 2024 and $7,637 million in 2023 (VMware was acquired on November 22, 2023, early in fiscal 2024), and operating income was $20,765 million, $13,977 million and $5,639 million, as reported in the 10-K for fiscal 2025, which attributes the 2025 increase primarily to strong demand for VMware Cloud Foundation, including license revenue on contracts customers cannot terminate, and the transition to a subscription license model. In fiscal 2025 Broadcom began including upfront license revenue ($7,800 million) within products revenue, reclassifying prior years to match.1
Unallocated expenses (not a segment): Costs Broadcom does not use to evaluate or allocate resources to its segments. In fiscal 2025 they totalled $16,513 million: amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets of $8,062 million, stock-based compensation of $7,568 million, restructuring and other charges of $667 million and acquisition-related costs of $216 million.1
Revenue by region and country, fiscal 2025 (not a segment): By shipment or delivery location, net revenue was $18,939 million in the Americas, $35,896 million in Asia Pacific and $9,052 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. By country it was $16,506 million in the United States, $11,155 million in China (including Hong Kong), $10,796 million in Singapore and $6,451 million in Taiwan. Broadcom says these delivery locations do not necessarily show where its end customers are, and believes a substantial portion of its products shipped or delivered to China (including Hong Kong) is included in devices sold by its end customers in the United States and Europe.1
Segments in the first three quarters of fiscal 2026 (unaudited): For the three fiscal quarters ended August 2, 2026, net revenue was $48,363 million in semiconductor solutions and $22,726 million in infrastructure software, with operating income of $29,554 million and $18,295 million respectively. For the third quarter alone, semiconductor solutions revenue was $20,839 million (70% of net revenue) and infrastructure software revenue $8,752 million. The 10-Q attributes the semiconductor increase to strong demand for custom AI accelerators and AI networking products, and says that as of that quarter the majority of new software contracts no longer have termination for convenience provisions.3
Risks
AI demand and a cyclical industry: Broadcom says the semiconductor industry is highly cyclical and is undergoing profound change due to AI, and that its significant upturn may not be sustainable because of a market correction, the perceived existence of an AI spending bubble or other factors. If its AI customers substantially reduce their AI infrastructure plans, cancel, reduce or delay orders, or cannot generate the profit needed to support their spending, it could have a material adverse effect, and some AI customers may have constrained resources or capital and be unable to pay for the AI infrastructure they need, or may use alternative financing, including through its AI XPV platform, which could add counterparty credit risk.3
Customer concentration: Sales to distributors were 56% of net revenue in the three fiscal quarters ended August 2, 2026, and Broadcom believes its top five end customers accounted for approximately 50% through all channels (10-Q, unaudited). It says top customers, including AI customers, have pressed for terms such as leasing its custom accelerators or having it buy and lease them full AI racks, with alternative financing, which may not produce the revenue, free cash flow or profitability expected and has imposed obligations such as backstops or guarantees. Losing or substantially reducing sales to any top customer could have a material adverse effect.3
Backstops, guarantees and counterparty credit risk: Under its June 2026 AI rack arrangement, Broadcom backstops a customer's lease obligations to a financial partner over 5-year lease terms; if the customer defaults, its liability equals any shortfall between 85% of the amounts owed and the value of the racks when sold, up to a maximum potential liability of approximately $29 billion once all racks are deployed (10-Q, unaudited). The customer may also, under certain circumstances and if needed, issue Broadcom convertible promissory notes of up to $42 billion, to be used only for its lease obligations; none had been issued as of August 2, 2026. Broadcom says such arrangements could increase its fixed obligations, expose it to counterparty credit risk and a fall in the value of the underlying assets, and reduce its financial flexibility.3
Dependence on TSMC and a few suppliers: About 95% of the wafers made by Broadcom's contract manufacturers in the three fiscal quarters ended August 2, 2026 came from TSMC, which also makes wafers for competitors, could prioritize other customers or cut deliveries on short notice, and has raised its prices. Broadcom bought more than three-quarters of its manufacturing materials from five suppliers, some of them single sources, mostly on purchase orders without long-term contracts, and says suppliers have limited supplies or raised prices, including for memory chips (10-Q).3
Trade restrictions and geopolitics: Broadcom says export regulations, tariffs and other government actions change frequently and have generally become more stringent, and that U.S. additions to restricted entity lists and prohibited exports have hurt and may hurt its revenue, supply chain and ability to sell. A majority of its products are produced, sourced and sold internationally, and it lists risks including geopolitical turmoil or conflict, including China-Taiwan relations. It says tariffs have not had a material impact so far but could materially increase costs and disrupt its supply chain (10-Q).3
Software demand and competition: Broadcom says growth of its software business depends on demand for its data center virtualization portfolio, which could shrink if businesses move workloads to public cloud providers, and that customers may not accept its subscription licensing model or simplified product portfolios. It expects more competition as AI is integrated into its markets, including from cloud-based and AI-native vendors and from customers that develop competing products (10-Q).3
Debt, taxes and the VMware spin-off: Aggregate indebtedness was $61,079 million as of August 2, 2026, which Broadcom says could limit its flexibility and require a substantial portion of cash flow for debt payments. Global minimum taxes have materially increased, and may further materially increase, its effective tax rate and cash tax costs, and losing tax incentives could raise its taxes. If VMware's 2021 spin-off from Dell is found not to be tax-free, Broadcom could owe some or all of the tax and may have to indemnify Dell (10-Q).3
Gross margin and new business models: Broadcom says the gross margin for its semiconductor solutions has typically been lower than for infrastructure software, and that selling its AI products, including selling or leasing AI racks or systems based on its XPUs, will likely increase operating margin but compress future gross margin, which would adversely impact its stock price (10-Q).3
Frequently asked questions
What does Broadcom do?
Broadcom designs and supplies semiconductors and infrastructure software, according to its Form 10-K for fiscal 2025. Its chips include custom AI accelerators (XPUs), Ethernet switches, network interface cards, optical components, wireless and broadband chips and storage connectivity products; its software includes VMware Cloud Foundation, mainframe, cybersecurity and enterprise software. About 95% of the wafers made by its contract manufacturers in fiscal 2025 came from TSMC.
What was Broadcom's revenue in fiscal 2025?
Broadcom reported total net revenue of $63,887 million for fiscal 2025, the 52 weeks ended November 2, 2025, in its Form 10-K filed on December 18, 2025, compared with $51,574 million for fiscal 2024. Net income was $23,126 million and diluted net income per share $4.77.
When does Broadcom's fiscal year end?
On the Sunday closest to October 31, so a fiscal year has 52 or 53 weeks. Fiscal 2025 ended November 2, 2025 (52 weeks), fiscal 2024 ended November 3, 2024 (53 weeks), and fiscal 2026 ends November 1, 2026, according to Broadcom's 10-K for fiscal 2025 and its 10-Q for the quarter ended August 2, 2026.
What are Broadcom's business segments?
Two: semiconductor solutions and infrastructure software. In fiscal 2025, semiconductor solutions revenue was $36,858 million and infrastructure software revenue $27,029 million, according to the 10-K. For the three fiscal quarters ended August 2, 2026 they were $48,363 million and $22,726 million (10-Q, unaudited).
How much of Broadcom's revenue comes from AI?
Broadcom does not report AI as a segment. In its September 2, 2026 results release, furnished with a Form 8-K, its CEO said AI semiconductor revenue was $16.7 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, out of total net revenue of $29,591 million, and that Broadcom expects AI semiconductor revenue of $21.7 billion in the fourth quarter, a company projection.
What is Broadcom's AI XPV platform?
According to its 10-Q for the quarter ended August 2, 2026, the AI XPV platform has financial partners fund AI infrastructure built on Broadcom's custom accelerators and networking for leading frontier AI labs, to enable more than 20 gigawatts of compute capacity through 2028. It launched in June 2026 with a $35 billion initial tranche for more than 1 gigawatt for one customer, and Broadcom backstops that customer's lease obligations up to a maximum potential liability of approximately $29 billion. Its 10-Q for the quarter ended May 3, 2026 names the partner in that June 8, 2026 arrangement as Apollo.
What are Broadcom's agreements with Google, Anthropic and Apple?
In an April 6, 2026 Form 8-K, Broadcom said it agreed to develop and supply custom TPUs for Google's future TPU generations and to supply networking and other components for Google's next-generation AI racks through up to 2031, and that Anthropic, beginning in 2027, will access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of TPU-based compute through Broadcom, depending on Anthropic's continued commercial success. In a July 6, 2026 Form 8-K, it said it entered new multi-year agreements to develop and supply custom ASIC silicon for Apple products through 2031.
What does Broadcom expect for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026?
In its September 2, 2026 results release, Broadcom guided to fourth-quarter revenue of approximately $34.8 billion and non-GAAP operating income of approximately 66% of projected revenue, for the quarter ending November 1, 2026. These are company projections, not reported results.
Who runs Broadcom?
Hock E. Tan has been President and Chief Executive Officer since March 2006, and Henry Samueli is Chairman of the Board, according to the 10-K for fiscal 2025. Amie Thuener became Chief Financial Officer on June 12, 2026, succeeding Kirsten M. Spears, according to a Form 8-K. Charlie B. Kawwas is President, Semiconductor Solutions Group, according to the 10-K.
Does Broadcom pay a dividend or buy back stock?
Yes. Broadcom paid dividends of $2.360 per share ($11,142 million) in fiscal 2025 and $1.95 per share in the first three quarters of fiscal 2026, and declared a quarterly dividend of $0.65 per share payable on September 30, 2026. It bought back 25 million shares for $8,450 million in the first three quarters of fiscal 2026, and $10.1 billion remained authorized through December 31, 2026 as of August 2, 2026 (10-Q, unaudited).
When did Broadcom buy VMware?
Broadcom completed the acquisition of VMware on November 22, 2023, paying approximately $30,788 million in cash and 544 million shares of Broadcom common stock with a fair value of $53,398 million, according to its 10-K for fiscal 2025. It sold VMware's end-user computing business to KKR & Co. Inc. on July 1, 2024 for cash consideration of $3.5 billion, after working capital adjustments.
Did Broadcom split its stock?
Yes. Broadcom completed a ten-for-one forward stock split on July 12, 2024, according to its 10-K for fiscal 2024.