Broadcom Limited designs, develops, and supplies a range of complex digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor based devices and analog III-V based products worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Wired Infrastructure, Wireless Communications, Enterprise Storage, and Industrial & Other. The Wired Infrastructure segment provides set-top box system-on-chips (SoCs); cable, digital subscriber line, and passive optical networking central office/consumer premise equipment SoCs; Ethernet switching and routing application specific standard product; embedded processors and controllers; serializer/deserializer application specific integrated circuits; optical and copper physical layers; and fiber optic laser and receiver components. The Wireless Communications segment offers RF front end modules, filters, and power amplifiers; Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and global positioning system/global navigation satellite system SoCs; and custom touch controllers. The Enterprise Storage segment provides serial attached small computer system interface, and redundant array of independent disks controllers and adapters; peripheral component interconnect express switches; fiber channel host bus adapters; read channel based SoCs; and preamplifiers. The Industrial & Other segment optocouplers; industrial fiber optics motion control encoders and subsystems; and light emitting diodes. Its products are used in various applications, including enterprise and data center networking, home connectivity, set-top boxes, broadband access, telecommunication equipment, smartphones, data center servers and storage systems, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic displays. The company was formerly known as Avago Technologies Limited and changed its name to Broadcom Limited in February 2016. Broadcom Limited was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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12 March 2017 Price $226.35 1yr Target $246.87 Analysts 30 Dividend $4.08 Payout Ratio --- 1yr Cap Gain 9.06% Yield 1.80% 1yr Tot Return 10.86% P/E --- PEG --- Beta 1.08 | EPS (ttm) $-4.93 EPS next yr $15.79 Forward P/E 14.34 EPS next 5yr 15.00% 1yr Price Support $236.85 Market Cap $89.03 Bil Revenues $15.61 Bil Earnings $-1.76 Bil Profit Margin --- Quick Ratio 2.80 Current Ratio 3.50 Debt/Equity 0.70 | 1yr RevGR --- 3yr RevGR --- 5yr RevGR --- 1yr EarnGR --- 3yr EarnGR --- 5yr EarnGR --- 1yr DivGR --- 3yr DivGR --- 5yr DivGR --- ROA --- ROE --- |
Broadcom's product line spans computer and telecommunication networking. The company has products for enterprise/metropolitan high-speed networks, as well as products for small-office, home-office networks. Products include transceiver and processor ICs for Ethernet and wireless Local Area Networks, cable modems, digital subscriber lines (DSL), servers, home networking devices (router, switches) and cellular phones. It's also known for a series of high-speed encryption co-processors, offloading this processor intensive work to a dedicated chip and speeding up tasks that utilize encryption.
The company also produces ICs for carrier access equipment, audio/video processors for digital set-top boxes and digital video recorders, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi transceivers, and RF receivers and tuners for satellite TV. Major customers include Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, IBM, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Linksys, Logitech, Nintendo, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel (Avaya), TiVo, Tenda, and Cisco Systems.
I already own shares of Broadcom and expect to enhance that position going forward, even though the company has already moved higher. I believe there's more to this company in the future and that the price of the shares will move even higher. I think the stock in this company will hit $250 per share within the next year and even higher after that. Therefore it only makes sense add to this position.