Piper Sandler Starts Qualcomm (QCOM) at Neutral

Piper Sandler analyst David O'Connor initiates coverage on Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) with a Neutral rating and a price target of $190.00.

The analyst comments "QCOM has been late to the Datacenter party, but we are still in the early innings of an AI multi-year growth story and currently the AI market is compute-starved. Management has put together a compelling set of Hyperscaler design-wins across custom silicon, Accelerators and CPU Server through FY29E, by which stage Handsets will have fallen to ~50% of EBIT. Datacenter wins will account for ~26% of FY29E revenues and drive a 4- year EPS CAGR of 16%, reaching ~$15 earnings power in FY29E. Using the company 5- year average P/E multiple of 14x, we value the stock on FY29E and set our PT to $190. Initiating at Neutral given new design wins are already discounted in share price. To turn more bullish, we would like to see more traction and/or industry acceptance of QCOM's HBC technology."

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Shares of Qualcomm closed at $174.09 yesterday.

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