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Broadcom Inc.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
Signals align: quality at a discount to the sector
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4 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Stable quality
Profitability
4/4
Debt & liquidity
1/3
Efficiency
2/2
Revenue grew 23.9% year over year — +92% above the sector median — while FCF expanded 68.8%, and EPS rose 287.8%, placing all three growth metrics in the top quartile of the Information Technology sector. The F-Score of 7/9 reflects a business in good shape: profitability scores a clean sweep, and efficiency holds, though the balance sheet carries more Debt/EBITDA at 2.4× against a sector median of 0.9×. Valuation is where the tension sits: EV/EBITDA of 69.2× runs +98% above the sector median of 34.9×, and P/B of 21.4× is +104% above its median. The forward picture is mixed — the realized three-year EPS CAGR per SEC filings is strong, yet the beat rate over the last eight quarters is weak, and the most recent quarter saw EPS miss consensus by a wide margin, so the market's forward models carry the usual optimistic bias risk.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL | Apple | 8/9 | 171% | +6% |
Quarter-by-quarter classification · a retrospective read by the current logic · not a price forecast
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. The method did not see these quarters in real time; this is the current logic applied to past reports.
The market prices in earnings growth; analyst sentiment is steady; has not always beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
A forward P/E below the current one means the market expects earnings to grow; above it, to fall. The historical growth is realized figures from SEC filings, not a forecast.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
AVGO's F-Score scores 1 out of 3 on leverage and liquidity, a soft spot worth examining directly. Pull the most recent 10-Q on SEC EDGAR and check the long-term debt figure, current ratio, and any covenant disclosures relative to the VMware acquisition financing.
With revenue growth of 92% above the sector median, a large portion reflects the VMware consolidation rather than organic expansion. In the MD&A, look for management's breakdown of organic versus acquired revenue and any margin pressure flagged in the integration timeline.
AVGO carries an EV/EBITDA of 34.9× and a P/B of 10.5×, both roughly double the sector median. Pick two or three names from the section 06 table and line up those same two multiples to see where AVGO sits within the range the sector actually trades at.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: +22%+8%+10%+39%
Over 4 years: 2.652.254.722.38
Over 4 years: +21%+8%+44%+24%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 7 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| 32% |
| ACN | Accenture | 4/9 | 26% | +7% | 15% |
| ADBE | Adobe | 7/9 | 55% | +11% | 37% |
| AMAT | Applied Materials | 6/9 | 36% | +4% | 29% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 7/9 | 7% | +34% | 11% |
| AVGO | Broadcom Inc. | 7/9 | 43% | +24% | 40% |
| CRM | Salesforce | 7/9 | 12% | +10% | 20% |
| CSCO | Cisco | 7/9 | 27% | +12% | 24% |
| IBM | IBM | 6/9 | 35% | +8% | — |
| INTC | Intel | 6/9 | -0% | -0% | -4% |
| INTU | Intuit | 8/9 | 20% | +16% | 26% |
| MSFT | Microsoft | 6/9 | 34% | +18% | 47% |
| NOW | ServiceNow | 4/9 | 15% | +21% | 14% |
| NVDA | NVIDIA | 3/9 | 101% | +65% | 60% |
| ORCL | Oracle | 5/9 | 54% | +17% | 31% |
| TXN | Texas Instruments | 7/9 | 30% | +13% | 34% |
A sample of 16 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
A simplified retrospective read: no analyst forecast (not available historically); the source is the annual report as of the date, so neighbouring quarters can rest on the same data. Quarters with the same classification in a row are merged into one row — each row is one change in the read, not a separate quarter. One ticker is an illustration of the classification logic, not statistics. How we calculate →
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.