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AVGO · NASDAQ

BROADCOM INC

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$361.99

+0.32%

Close on Sep 11, 2026

Defensively Qualified

Updated 6/30/2026

Long-term research evidence only. No price targets, no trading signals, no recommendations.

Investment Report Card

BROADCOM INC

Sector unavailable · Data confidence good

78 / 100

Rank #42 of 1,152 qualified companies

Top 7% · Worth a Closer Look

Risk Intelligence

Core Model
B

76 / 100

Fundamentally Qualified

How strong and defensively sound is the company?

Above average on this measure.

Long-Term Potential

Research Model
B−

71 / 100

Elite Compounder

Does the business have the characteristics needed to create value over many years?

Above average on this measure.

Fundamental Momentum

Research Model
C+

69 / 100

Accelerating

Is the underlying business getting stronger or weaker?

Around the middle of the covered universe.

Ownership Intelligence

Supplemental Intelligence
B−

73 / 100

Positive disclosed activity

What are important owners actually doing?

Above average on this measure.

Valuation Intelligence

Research Model
F

37 / 100

Elevated

Is today's price reasonable?

Weaker than most covered companies on this measure — and valuation is researched separately from the Suggested Investment Score.

Capital Returns Intelligence

Research Model
D+

52 / 100

Moderate Capital Returns

How effectively does the company reward shareholders?

Weaker than most covered companies on this measure — and capital returns are researched separately from the Suggested Investment Score.

Why it stands out

  • Business Quality meets the frozen IA Defensive qualification.
  • The IA Compounder research model identifies strong compounding characteristics.
  • More disclosed holders are new or increasing than reducing or exiting.

What holds it back

  • Elevated valuation: the current market price reflects a premium to this company's historical valuation and comparable companies (Valuation Intelligence 37 out of 100, Elevated).

Long-term view

BROADCOM INC scores 71 on Long-Term Potential (B−), described by the research model as elite compounder. This describes business characteristics only — it is not a forecast of future returns.

Ownership view

Disclosed ownership evidence reads 73 (B−): Positive disclosed activity. 20 tracked managers disclosed a position in the latest reporting period. Ownership filings are historical disclosures, not signals.

Valuation view

BROADCOM INC reads 37 out of 100 on Valuation Intelligence, recorded as Elevated. The stock currently trades above most of its own recent valuation history and above comparable companies. This describes the price being paid relative to the company's financials — it is not a forecast and not a fair value. Valuation Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.

Capital returns view

BROADCOM INC reads 52 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Moderate Capital Returns), reflecting a dividend that has grown about 30.9% a year and a share count rising about 2.6% a year. Capital Returns Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.

What changed

No meaningful recorded changes in the stored history.

Risk Intelligence is a core model, Long-Term Potential, Fundamental Momentum, Valuation Intelligence and Capital Returns Intelligence are research models, and Ownership Intelligence is supplemental descriptive evidence. Valuation Intelligence and Capital Returns Intelligence each contribute 0% to the Suggested Investment Score. Nothing here is a recommendation.

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Why it's interesting

BROADCOM INC (AVGO) scores 78 out of 100 and ranks #42 of 1,152 qualified companies today. That places it in the top 7% of ranked companies. The stored tier for that score is worth a closer look.

Business strength

Risk Intelligence reads 76 out of 100 (B), recorded as fundamentally qualified. Above average on this measure.

Long-term opportunity

Long-Term Potential reads 71 out of 100 (B−), recorded as elite compounder. Above average on this measure.

What's improving or weakening

Fundamental Momentum reads 69 out of 100 (C+), recorded as accelerating. Around the middle of the covered universe.

What important owners are doing

Ownership Intelligence reads 73 out of 100 (B−), recorded as positive disclosed activity. Above average on this measure.

What kind of price you'd be paying

Valuation is currently the main point of caution: Valuation Intelligence reads 37 out of 100 (F), recorded as Elevated. BROADCOM INC reads 37 out of 100 on Valuation Intelligence, recorded as Elevated. The stock currently trades above most of its own recent valuation history and above comparable companies. This describes the price being paid relative to the company's financials — it is not a forecast and not a fair value. Valuation Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.

How the company rewards shareholders

Capital Returns Intelligence reads 52 out of 100 (D+), recorded as Moderate Capital Returns. BROADCOM INC reads 52 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Moderate Capital Returns), reflecting a dividend that has grown about 30.9% a year and a share count rising about 2.6% a year. Capital Returns Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.

What could go wrong

Elevated valuation: the current market price reflects a premium to this company's historical valuation and comparable companies (Valuation Intelligence 37 out of 100, Elevated). Data confidence for this company is good.

Bottom line

No individual layer reaches the strongest band today. Separately from the score, valuation reads elevated at today's price.

Composite discovery model

Suggested Investment Score

Suggested Investment Score

78 / 100

Worth a Closer Look

A 0–100 composite discovery score combining Risk Intelligence, Long-Term Potential, Fundamental Momentum, and Ownership Intelligence. It helps rank qualified companies for further research and does not predict future returns.

Rank
#42 of 694
Percentile
Top 10%
Ranking updated
September 12, 2026
28Rank weakened by 28 positions. Rank weakened by 28 positions.
Risk Intelligence
76

30% contribution

Long-Term Potential
71

30% contribution

Fundamental Momentum
69

20% contribution

Ownership Intelligence
73

20% contribution

Ownership Intelligence

73 / 100 · Positive · 20% of the Suggested Investment Score

SUPPLEMENTAL / DESCRIPTIVE INTELLIGENCE

Coverage: Good

Elite Investor Activity
70 · Positive

50% of Ownership Intelligence · 10% of the total score

Tracked professional-manager activity is positive.

Institutional Activity
80 · Strong

20% of Ownership Intelligence · 4% of the total score

Broad institutional evidence from resolved filings is strong.

Insider Activity
Insufficient Data

15% of Ownership Intelligence · 3% of the total score

No discretionary insider transactions are stored for this company, so this evidence is unavailable rather than neutral.

Strategic Ownership
Insufficient Data

15% of Ownership Intelligence · 3% of the total score

No qualifying major-holder filings are stored, so this evidence is unavailable rather than neutral.

Ownership Intelligence summarizes publicly disclosed activity among professional investment managers, broader institutions, company insiders, and significant strategic owners. It adds context to investment research but is not a validated predictor of future performance. Ownership information is publicly reported with a delay; the latest applicable reporting period is 2026-06-30, publicly disclosed 9/11/2026. Congressional activity is unavailable pending legal review and contributes nothing to this reading.

Why it ranks here

  • Strong risk profile

    Risk Intelligence ranks in the top 14% of qualified companies, with normal_risk price risk.

  • Exceptional long-term potential

    Stored profitability, capital efficiency and reinvestment readings rank near the top of the qualified universe.

  • Improving fundamentals

    Recent reported business trends rank among the strongest in the qualified universe.

What holds it back

  • Ownership evidence is not uniformly supportive

    The combined disclosed ownership evidence ranks below the qualified median.

COMPOSITE DISCOVERY MODEL — RESEARCH STAGE · Data coverage Excellent. Rankings are recalculated daily using the latest available information. Individual components may update at different frequencies based on when new financial and ownership data becomes available.

Researched separately

Valuation Intelligence 37 · Elevated

RESEARCH MODEL

Valuation Intelligence is currently researched separately and does not affect the Suggested Investment Score or daily ranking.

Researched separately

Capital Returns Intelligence 52 · Moderate Capital Returns

RESEARCH MODEL

Capital Returns Intelligence is researched separately and contributes 0% to the Suggested Investment Score, the daily rank or any ranking event.

Score explanation

Why this company scores the way it does

Four research areas carry fixed weights. Each area is compared against every other eligible company, then weighted. The four contributions below add to 78.0 of the stored score (78.0).

  • Risk Intelligence

    30% of the score · contributes 26.0 points

    How strong and defensively sound is the company?

    Stands at the 87 percentile of eligible companies · stored reading 76 · 33% of this company’s total score

    How financially sturdy the company has been when conditions turned against it.

    How this area is measured

    Risk Intelligence reads stored balance-sheet strength, historical downside behaviour and the company's price-risk grouping. A stronger reading describes past resilience; it does not protect against future losses.

    Full methodology
  • Long-Term Potential

    30% of the score · contributes 27.3 points

    Does the business have the characteristics needed to create value over many years?

    Stands at the 91 percentile of eligible companies · stored reading 71 · 35% of this company’s total score

    Whether the business has the durable characteristics long-term owners look for.

    How this area is measured

    Long-Term Potential reads durability characteristics such as profitability consistency, cash generation and reinvestment capability over multiple reported periods.

    Full methodology
  • Fundamental Momentum

    20% of the score · contributes 16.5 points

    Is the underlying business getting stronger or weaker?

    Stands at the 82 percentile of eligible companies · stored reading 69 · 21% of this company’s total score

    Whether the reported business results have been getting stronger or weaker.

    How this area is measured

    Fundamental Momentum compares recent reported fundamentals with the company's own earlier periods, so improvement or deterioration is measured against its history rather than against a forecast.

    Full methodology
  • Ownership Intelligence

    20% of the score · contributes 8.2 points

    What are important owners actually doing?

    Stands at the 41 percentile of eligible companies · stored reading 73 · 11% of this company’s total score

    What large reporting owners have actually been doing with their positions.

    How this area is measured

    Ownership Intelligence reads public ownership filings: how many tracked reporting owners hold the company, and whether they were adding, holding, reducing or exiting in the latest disclosed period.

    Full methodology

What is helping the score

  • Long-Term Potential91 percentile, adding 27.3 points.
  • Risk Intelligence87 percentile, adding 26.0 points.
  • Fundamental Momentum82 percentile, adding 16.5 points.

What deserves attention

  • Ownership Intelligence41 percentile, adding only 8.2 of a possible 20 points.
Outside the score

Additional research — not currently included in the primary Suggested Investment Score.

  • Valuation IntelligenceBROADCOM INC reads 37 out of 100 on Valuation Intelligence, recorded as Elevated. The stock currently trades above most of its own recent valuation history and above comparable companies. This describes the price being paid relative to the company's financials — it is not a forecast and not a fair value.
  • Capital Returns IntelligenceBROADCOM INC reads 52 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Moderate Capital Returns), reflecting a dividend that has grown about 30.9% a year and a share count rising about 2.6% a year.

Stored snapshots only

What changed

Research-score history available since September 2026.

Stored research history does not yet cover a full 30 days comparison for this company.

A change is reported as meaningful at 8 score points, 5 rank places, or any change of research classification. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.

Learn the metrics on this page

Plain-English definitions, with the formula and the limitations of each measure.

Fifth research lens · outside the score

Valuation Intelligence

Valuation Intelligence

Is today's price reasonable?

Valuation Intelligence is currently researched separately and does not affect the Suggested Investment Score or daily ranking.

37/ 100

Elevated

RESEARCH MODEL
Excellent coverage

Compared with its history

15

Expensive

Is this company expensive or inexpensive compared with its own history?

Compared with peers

22

Expensive

How expensive is this stock compared with similar companies?

Earnings & cash flow

33

Expensive

How much financial output does an investor receive relative to the price paid?

Growth-adjusted

93

Very Attractive

Does the company's growth help justify the valuation investors are paying?

BROADCOM INC reads 37 out of 100 on Valuation Intelligence, recorded as Elevated. The stock currently trades above most of its own recent valuation history and above comparable companies. This describes the price being paid relative to the company's financials — it is not a forecast and not a fair value.

Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended May 3, 2026

Valuation history

Stored readings only. The dashed line is this company's own median for the selected measure.

Only one stored valuation reading exists so far, so there is nothing to chart yet. Valuation history builds forward from activation rather than being reconstructed.

Current EV/Sales 23.4x · own median 8.5x · peer median 5.1x

Valuation is inherently uncertain. A stock that appears inexpensive can continue falling, and a stock that appears expensive can continue rising. Valuation Intelligence provides context about the price investors are paying — it does not predict short-term market movements, and it never produces a fair value, a price target or a buy or sell range. Model VALUATION_INTELLIGENCE_V1.

Sixth research lens · outside the score

Capital Returns Intelligence

Capital Returns Intelligence

How effectively does the company reward shareholders?

Capital Returns Intelligence is researched separately and contributes 0% to the Suggested Investment Score, the daily rank or any ranking event.

52/ 100

Moderate Capital Returns

RESEARCH MODEL
Excellent coverage

Dividend Quality

93

Exceptional Capital Returns

Dividend reliability

Buyback Effectiveness

30

Limited Capital Returns

Do buybacks actually reduce shares?

The company spends on share repurchases, but much of that activity offsets share issuance rather than materially reducing the share count.

Dilution Control

15

Limited Capital Returns

Is your ownership share protected?

Capital Return Sustainability

76

Strong Capital Returns

Can the cash flow support it?

Shareholder Yield

25

Limited Capital Returns

Cash returned versus company value

BROADCOM INC reads 52 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Moderate Capital Returns), reflecting a dividend that has grown about 30.9% a year and a share count rising about 2.6% a year.

This company spent cash repurchasing stock, but the share count did not fall meaningfully because it also issued shares. Repurchase spending alone did not increase existing shareholders' ownership.

How returned cash was used

Dividends $11.76B · net repurchases $8.29B · total returned $20.05B · 61% of free cash flow

Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended May 3, 2026

Capital returns history

Stored readings only. History builds forward from activation rather than being reconstructed.

Only one stored reading exists for this measure so far, so there is nothing to chart yet.

Why higher yield isn't always better

A very high dividend yield may reflect a falling share price or an unsustainable payout. Capital Returns Intelligence emphasizes consistency and sustainability rather than simply rewarding the highest yield.

Why buybacks can be misleading

Announced or gross buyback spending does not always mean shareholders are gaining ownership. Companies can simultaneously issue shares through employee compensation or acquisitions. Suggested Investments therefore considers actual share-count changes alongside repurchase spending.

What these terms mean
Dividend Yield
The annual dividend relative to the current share price.
Payout Ratio
The share of company earnings used to pay dividends.
Free Cash Flow Payout
How much of the company's available cash is being used for dividends.
Share Repurchases
When a company buys back its own stock.
Dilution
When the number of shares increases, reducing each existing share's percentage ownership of the company.
Shareholder Yield
A combined view of dividends and net share repurchases relative to the company's market value.

Capital Returns Intelligence describes how a company returns capital to shareholders. It is not a measure of stock-price performance, it does not predict future returns, and a strong reading is never a recommendation to buy. Dividends and repurchases can be reduced or stopped at any time. Model CAPITAL_RETURNS_INTELLIGENCE_V1, contributing 0% to the Suggested Investment Score.

Stored daily snapshots only

Ranking history

Stored Suggested Investment ranking history
Today#42Score 78
30 days agoNot rankedNo stored score
90 days agoNot rankedNo stored score
First suggestedSeptember 12, 2026
Highest rank#42

In the company’s own words

What this company does

We are a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and semiconductor-based solutions and infrastructure software solutions. Our more than 60-year history of innovation dates back to our diverse origins from AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard Company, and has evolved through acquisitions, including LSI Corporation, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., CA, Inc., Symantec Enterprise Security, and VMware, Inc. ("VMware"). Over the years, we have assembled a large team of semiconductor and software design engineers around the world. We maintain design, product and software development engineering expertise and resources at locations primarily in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. We combine global scale, engineering depth, broad product portfolio, superior execution and operational focus to deliver category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions.

Our strategy is focused on sustained technology leadership and developing category-leading solutions to deliver a comprehensive suite of innovative infrastructure technology products to the world’s leading business and government customers. We seek to achieve this through extensive internal research and development, as well as strategic acquisitions of businesses and technologies, to ensure our products retain their technology market leadership. This strategy results in a robust business model designed to drive diversified and sustainable operating and financial results.

Our semiconductor and semiconductor-based solutions include a broad portfolio of complex digital and mixed signal devices based on silicon wafers with complementary metal oxide semiconductor ("CMOS") transistors, III-V based devices, network interface cards ("NICs") and other modules, switches, subsystems and, in some cases, racks. Our solutions are used in a wide array of environments, end products and applications, such as enterprise and artificial intelligence ("AI") data centers, servers and networking and connectivity equipment, as well as storage systems, home connectivity devices, set-top boxes ("STB"), broadband access, telecommunication equipment, wireless devices and base stations, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic displays. We differentiate ourselves through our high-performance design and integration capabilities, and focus on developing semiconductor products for markets that require our high quality, leading technology and integrated performance semiconductor and semiconductor-based solutions.

Our semiconductor and semiconductor-based solutions also enable our customers to build and deploy AI data center infrastructure for their training and inference workloads and manage the movement of data across their AI network infrastructure based on open, flexible, standards-based Ethernet. In addition, our solutions enable accelerated compute and networking connectivity at scale, within and across AI server racks and across AI data center sites. Customers of these solutions are hyperscalers and companies with AI frontier models, as well as original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and system integrators that develop servers, switches and racks deployed in large-scale AI data centers to run training and inference workloads. Our AI semiconductor solutions include custom accelerators or XPUs, Ethernet switching and routing silicon, Ethernet NICs, physical layer devices ("PHYs") and optical components, as well as racks and systems based on our XPUs.

Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed December 18, 2025. Read the filing

Four distinct intelligence areas

The IA view

Risk Intelligence

Production core

76

Fundamentally Qualified

+6.7 vs Jun 30, 2026

Business Quality qualification score from the locked IA Defensive Research Core. Price Risk stays a separate category and is never blended in.

As of Sep 11, 2026

Long-Term Potential

Research model

71

Elite Compounder

+7.7 vs Jun 30, 2026

Durable business economics and reinvestment characteristics. Independent external validation is pending.

As of Sep 11, 2026

Fundamental Momentum

Research model

69

Accelerating

-1.8 vs Jun 30, 2026

Direction and breadth of change in underlying business fundamentals. Not a price-momentum signal.

As of Sep 11, 2026

Elite Investor Activity

Supplemental

70

Upper range

0 vs Jun 30, 2026

20 tracked managers disclosed a position for this period.

As of Sep 11, 2026

Company intelligence

AVGO score history

Each area is measured and reported separately. No combined score exists.

AVGO intelligence history from 2023-09-30 to 2026-09-11. Risk Intelligence 76.4 on 2026-09-11, up 6.7 from 69.7 on 2026-06-30. Long-Term Potential 71.4 on 2026-09-11, up 7.7 from 63.7 on 2026-06-30. Fundamental Momentum 68.6 on 2026-09-11, down 1.8 from 70.4 on 2026-06-30. Elite Investor Activity 70 on 2026-09-11, unchanged 0 from 70 on 2026-06-30. Each area is reported separately and is never combined into a single score.

Risk Intelligence 76.4 as of Sep 11, 2026 (+6.7 vs prior period) · Production core

Long-Term Potential 71.4 as of Sep 11, 2026 (+7.7 vs prior period) · Research model

Fundamental Momentum 68.6 as of Sep 11, 2026 (-1.8 vs prior period) · Research model

Elite Investor Activity 70 as of Sep 11, 2026 (0 vs prior period) · Supplemental

Share price

AVGO price history

Closing prices adjusted for splits and dividends, through Sep 11, 2026. Past prices do not indicate future results.

6M change
+8.1%
1Y change
+1.4%
3Y change
+340.0%
5Y change
+683.7%
Max change
+1209.9%

Last stored close $361.99 · +1.4% over the selected range · 52 sessions shown

Balanced evidence

Why IA likes it

  • Business Quality meets the frozen IA Defensive qualification.
  • The IA Compounder research model identifies strong compounding characteristics.
  • More disclosed holders are new or increasing than reducing or exiting.

Risk and uncertainty

What IA doesn’t like

  • No specific negative evidence is available. This is not evidence of low risk.

What would change our view

  • Business Quality falling below the frozen qualification threshold.
  • Price Risk moving to a less favorable category.
  • A sustained reversal in the Fundamental Momentum research evidence.
  • New material public ownership disclosures.

Public filings · descriptive only

Elite Investor Activity

Reporting holders

55

New holders

38

Increasing

5

Reducing

10

Exiting

1

Coverage

Excellent

Positive disclosed activity · Report period 2023-09-30 · Public 12/27/2023

ManagerChangePortfolio weightRankDisclosed

Insufficient high-confidence manager coverage.

Objective stored changes

What changed

  • Risk Intelligence

    Price Risk category changed

    Price Risk moved from Not Available to Higher risk.

  • Fundamental Momentum

    Fundamental Momentum improved

    Fundamental Momentum research score moved from 66.0 to 70.4.

  • Elite Investor Activity

    Elite Investor Consensus strengthened

    Disclosed agreement among tracked managers moved from 45 to 70 for the reporting period ending 2026-06-30.

  • Elite Investor Activity

    Elite Investor Consensus weakened

    Disclosed agreement among tracked managers moved from 57 to 48 for the reporting period ending 2025-12-31.

  • Elite Investor Activity

    Tracked managers exited positions

    2 tracked managers no longer disclosed a position for the reporting period ending 2025-12-31.

  • Elite Investor Activity

    Tracked managers initiated positions

    3 tracked managers first disclosed a position for the reporting period ending 2025-09-30.

  • Elite Investor Activity

    Tracked managers initiated positions

    4 tracked managers first disclosed a position for the reporting period ending 2025-06-30.

  • Elite Investor Activity

    Elite Investor Consensus strengthened

    Disclosed agreement among tracked managers moved from 44 to 63 for the reporting period ending 2025-03-31.

  • Elite Investor Activity

    Tracked managers exited positions

    2 tracked managers no longer disclosed a position for the reporting period ending 2025-03-31.

  • Elite Investor Activity

    Elite Investor Consensus weakened

    Disclosed agreement among tracked managers moved from 94 to 44 for the reporting period ending 2024-12-31.

Ownership timeline

No high-confidence public ownership events are available.

General research only. Not personalized advice. Public filings may be delayed, amended, incomplete, or reflect positions that have changed since the reporting date.