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Broadcom Inc. trades under the ticker symbol AVGO on the Nasdaq. This page brings together its live stock price, an interactive price chart, and key fundamentals like market capitalization, 52-week range, dividend yield, and the next earnings date, with plain-English context to help you understand what the numbers mean.
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Broadcom is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, with a portfolio spanning networking chips, broadband, wireless components, and storage connectivity. Its parts sit inside data center switches, smartphones, and the networking gear that moves internet traffic.
Beyond chips, Broadcom has built a large infrastructure-software business through acquisitions, most notably VMware. That mix of hardware and recurring software revenue is unusual for a chipmaker and gives the company two distinct profit engines.
Broadcom is also a major supplier of custom accelerator chips designed alongside large cloud customers, which has tied it closely to the buildout of AI data center infrastructure.
Source: Broadcom SEC filings (10-K) and investor relations · Last reviewed June 2026
Broadcom runs two very different businesses under one roof. One designs chips, including custom AI processors built for specific cloud customers and the high-speed switches that connect those chips inside data centers. The other sells infrastructure software, mostly through VMware, which brings steady subscription revenue. The spending boom on AI data centers has become the main growth driver, so the long term question that frames the stock is whether Broadcom can keep winning custom-chip designs and grow its software base while carrying the debt its large acquisitions have added.
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Sources: Broadcom 10-K (SEC EDGAR), Broadcom Investor Relations · Last reviewed June 2026
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Historically, the company has used a mix of reinvestment, buybacks, and dividends.
On average, capital spending used about 4% of operating cash flow across 8 fiscal years (FY2018-FY2025) - a small share of the cash the business generated went back into it, leaving most available for other uses.
Reported share repurchases in 6 of the 8 fiscal years shown, totaling about $35.1B (FY2018-FY2025).
Paid a per-share dividend in each of the 8 fiscal years shown (FY2018-FY2025). The annual per-share dividend did not decline year over year within FY2022-FY2025 (comparable per-share basis), rising in 3 straight year-over-year changes into FY2025. In FY2025, dividends paid totaled about $11.1B.
The total debt balance rose over the window: about $17.6B in FY2018 vs about $67.1B in FY2025. This describes the balance's direction, not repayments.
As of FY2025, held about $16.2B in cash and equivalents vs about $67.1B of total debt - more total debt than cash at that date.
Derived from annual figures this company reported to the SEC (EDGAR XBRL company facts). Descriptive history only: not a forecast, not a rating, not investment advice.
Broadcom runs two very different businesses under one roof. One designs chips, including custom AI processors built for specific cloud customers and the high-speed switches that connect those chips inside data centers.
Designing a custom AI chip alongside a cloud customer takes years of joint engineering, and once that chip is built into the customer's systems it is expensive and slow to replace, which keeps the relationship sticky.
Building and running AI models needs enormous numbers of chips wired together, and Broadcom sells both the custom processors and the switching chips that connect them, so it gains from the data-center buildout in more than one way.
The chip business is cyclical, so a slowdown in technology spending can pull orders down quickly.
Semiconductor demand is cyclical, and orders can swing with the broader technology spending cycle. A meaningful share of chip revenue has historically come from a small number of very large customers.
Broadcom blends a cyclical chip business with steadier software, so a single earnings multiple can mislead. Weigh it using the segment revenue, profit, and debt figures in the company's own filings rather than any outside estimate.
Whether spending on AI data centers stays strong and Broadcom keeps winning new custom-chip designs with big cloud customers, which is what would need to go right for growth to continue.
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