2023-12-07 18:12:13 ET
Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ: AVGO) is in focus in extended trading after reporting market-beating results for its fiscal fourth quarter on strong AI chip demand.
Is Broadcom stock worth buying?
The semiconductor behemoth now forecasts about $50 billion in revenue for fiscal 2024 – including the “transformational” VMware acquisition that it completed last month.
Experts, in comparison, were at $39.2 billion only but it’s unclear if their estimates included VMware. On CNBC’s “ Earnings Exchange ”, Mariann Montagne of Gradient Investments said today:
We expect synergies coming out of the VMware acquisition will be very powerful. We still think there’s mid-teens upside in this name with a 2.0% dividend yield.
Oppenheimer analyst Rick Schafer also predicted in his recent research note that VMware will boost annual revenue and earnings per share of Broadcom Inc by $15 billion and 9.0%, respectively.
His $1,100 price target on suggests about a 20% upside from here.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/8i2QkfdDteA?feature=oembedBroadcom Q4 financial highlights
- Earned $3.52 billion versus the year-ago $3.36 billion
- Per-share earnings also climbed from $7.83 to $8.25
- Adjusted EPS printed at $11.06 as per the press release
- Revenue jumped 4.0% year-over-year to $9.3 billion
- Consensus was $10.96 a share on $9.28 billion revenue
Other notable figures in the earnings report include $7.3 billion in revenue from semiconductor-solutions and $2.0 billion from infrastructure software segment. According to Mariann Montagne:
What AMD had to say yesterday about artificial intelligence and cloud computing is only positive for Broadcom.
Broadcom Inc sees its adjusted EBITDA coming in at about $30 billion in its new financial year. Its shares have lost about 8.0% in recent weeks.
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