Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

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What's the best guess for the stock if it were valued like its peers?

Investors often come to believe that a stock is undervalued or overvalued compared to other stocks in its industrial group. To calculate an alternate target price for the current and next fiscal year based on those beliefs, investors can apply the average PE multiple for a company's industrial group to the average professional analyst's earnings estimate for the company in those periods.

Valuation using the industry's current multiple (P/E):

Fiscal Year Est. Price % Change
9/2005 $49.95 47.26%
9/2006 $63.78 88.02%

QUALCOMM INC current price: 33.92
Communication Equipment group current multiple (P/E): 44.60


QUALCOMM INC average 9/2005 analyst estimate: 1.12
QUALCOMM INC average 9/2006 analyst estimate: 1.43




Investors estimate the level of unanimity about a stock's prospects among analysts by calculating the range between the most optimistic and most pessimistic estimates.


Average number of analysts covering QUALCOMM INC : 21
QUALCOMM INC analysts' high/low spread: 26%
QUALCOMM INC analysts' confidence: Low

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