Uncovering Overlooked Insights on Broadcom (AVGO)

By Blake Campbell • Wednesday, October 29 15:22 • Permanent Link

Broadcom marked a 2.3% change today, compared to -0.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $381.62? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Broadcom Inc. designs, develops, and supplies various semiconductor devices and infrastructure software solutions worldwide.
Broadcom belongs to the Technology sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.44 and an average price to book (P/B) of 4.19
The company's P/B ratio is 6.44
Broadcom has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 97.4 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.92 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 61.9, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $6.17
Over the last four years, Broadcom has averaged free cash flows of $14.59 Billion, which on average grew 13.2%
AVGO's gross profit margins have averaged 61.8 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of 2.6 % and a coefficient of variability of 12.0 %.
Broadcom has moved 111.1% over the last year compared to 18.5% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 92.6%
AVGO has an average analyst rating of buy and is -2.74% away from its mean target price of $392.38 per share

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