Qualcomm (QCOM) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Qualcomm's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
QCOM closed at $160.75 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -9.9% from its 50-day average and -4.4% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “pullback below trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -24.7%, trailing SPY by 27.8%. It remains 38.1% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -9.9% from its 50-day average and -4.4% from its 200-day average. Over three months, QCOM returned -24.7% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -9.9%
- vs 200-day
- -4.4%
- From 52W high
- -38.1%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
QCOM appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 6 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 4 call-side, 2 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.09, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-26 | #19 | — |
| 2026-06-24 | — | #27 |
| 2026-06-23 | #28 | — |
| 2026-06-04 | #11 | — |
| 2026-05-28 | — | #30 |
| 2026-05-23 | #15 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.068 calls, 0.048 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
3 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Qualcomm position in their latest filing, worth $395M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Altimeter Capital Brad Gerstner · QCOM | $348M | 3.54% | 1.88M | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Appaloosa Management David Tepper · QCOM | $46M | 0.60% | 250,000 | -49.9% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · QCOM | $739,160 | 0.00% | 4,000 | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open QCOM Financials →How QCOM trades — the working manual
Qualcomm combines wireless-chip sales with a high-margin patent-licensing business. For the stock, premium smartphone demand and modem content remain central, while automotive, connected devices and personal-computer processors determine whether the revenue mix can diversify before major customers bring more silicon design in-house.
What can move the tape
- 01Premium handset units, Snapdragon content, product mix and channel inventory.
- 02Licensing revenue, royalty rates and the renewal of major patent agreements.
- 03Automotive design-win conversion, digital-cockpit content and connectivity demand.
- 04Growth in connected devices and personal computers, operating margin and capital returns.
What can fool the read
- 01Customer modem insourcing can remove large revenue streams faster than diversification scales.
- 02Smartphone demand and inventory cycles retain heavy exposure to China and premium devices.
- 03Licensing disputes or regulation can alter the economics of the patent portfolio.
- 04New end markets require sustained investment and may not match handset margins.
Qualcomm triggered 5 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was QCOM on 2026-05-07: 3.1× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +6.2% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported QCOM events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
QCOM stock questions
Is QCOM stock in an uptrend?+
QCOM is classified in the “pullback below trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -9.9% from its 50-day average and -4.4% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in QCOM mean?+
Qualcomm's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the QCOM 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are QCOM's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated QCOM Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no QCOM earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.