Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

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The BusinessWeek 50
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/06_14/B397806bw50.htm

With world oil prices high, the energy sector’s strong showing in this year’s ranking of the BusinessWeek 50 comes as no surprise. But a host of companies—from Apple to Staples—have scored big by using technology, design, or clever marketing to build intense customer loyalty.

THE 2006 BW50:
1 Apple Computer
2 WellPoint
3 Caremark Rx
4 UnitedHealth Group
5 Schlumberger
6 Occidental Petroleum
7 Halliburton
8 Qualcomm
9 Amgen
10 Aetna
11 Lowe's
12 Burlington Northern Santa Fe
13 Motorola
14 Yahoo!
15 Goldman Sachs Group
16 Lehman Brothers Holdings
17 Gilead Sciences
18 Jabil Circuit
19 Best Buy
20 EMC
21 Baker Hughes
22 Texas Instruments
23 Cisco Systems
24 Starbucks
25 Intel
26 D. R. Horton
27 National Oilwell Varco
28 JPMorgan Chase
29 Merrill Lynch
30 Valero Energy
31 ConocoPhillips
32 Marathon Oil
33 Prudential Financial
34 Microsoft
35 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
36 Weatherford International
37 eBay
38 Coventry Health Care
39 CVS
40 FedEx
41 Franklin Resources
42 Lennar
43 Coach
44 Staples
45 NVIDIA
46 Norfolk Southern
47 Caterpillar
48 McKesson
49 Hartford Financial Services Group
50 Home Depot

Data: Standard & Poor's Compustat
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The BusinessWeek 50 Ranking 8 Qualcomm


RAISING ITS earnings expectations has become a regular event at Qualcomm. The San Diego-based cell-phone chipmaker has hiked its projections three times in the last year on the strength of its hot-selling CDMA digital wireless technology. The industry leader in the U.S., Qualcomm’s revenues have grown nearly fivefold since 2002. Now it’s making big inroads into Europe, China, and India, where its wireless technology trailed behind the more widely deployed GSM. Also, it’s gearing up for the U.S. launch later this year of MediaFLO, a TV-overthe- phone service that it hopes will drive chip sales.
Company Info
2005 Rank 13
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COMPANY INFO QCOM
Market Value
$ Million 77,814.0
Total Return
$ Million (1-yr.) 32.0
(3-yr.) 179.1
2005 Sales
$ Billion 6.0
Sales Growth
$ Million (1-yr.) 19
(3-yr.) 21.5
Long-Term Growth Est. % 20.0
Net income
$ Million 2,250.0
Net Income Growth
$ Million (1-yr.) 23
(3-yr.) 64.6
Net Margin %* 37.4
Return on Inv. Capital (%)* 18.8
Share Price
12-Mo. Hi/Lo 49/32
P/E Ratio 36
Industry Technology Hardware & Equipment
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Company data as of 2/28/06 provided by Standard & Poor's Compustat