Qualcomm (QCOM) Continues to Roll Mon, Apr 22, 2019 Shares of Qualcomm (QCOM) are trading higher again to kick off the week after last week's monster surge in the wake of the royalty settlement with Apple (AAPL). In just the last four trading days, the stock has rallied more than 43%. Now, it's rare enough to see small cap stocks rally 40% in the span of four trading days, but for a mega-cap stock like QCOM, it's practically unheard of. In just the last four trading days, QCOM"s market cap has jumped by nearly $30 billion from $69 billion to just under $99 billion. In the process, it has passed stocks like CVS, Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), Caterpillar (CAT), Lowe's (LOW), Starbucks (SBUX), and American Express (AXP) among others. For QCOM itself, the move over the last four trading days is also reaching historical proportions. The chart below shows the historical rolling four-day rate of change for QCOM, and the current rate of 43.2% now ranks as the second all-time behind only the 53.2% four-day rally in April 1999. What makes that rally in 1999 even more impressive, though, was that even before it started, QCOM was already up 139% YTD after announcing in March of that year that it had settled all outstanding patent litigations with Ericsson related to CDMA technology. After that four day rally, QCOM was up more than 250% YTD and finished the year with a gain of more than 2,600%! The late 1990s sure were fun!
What are your thoughts on QCOM and 5G? Seems like one of the leaders and potential winners in the near future, since it would probably supply AAPL with 5G tech. Need to learn to do analysis first before I buy any stock, but bought QCOM last week on a gut feeling and since then its target price has been raised.
Made a new ATH (going all the way back to exactly $100 in January 2000) about a month ago on its last ER, and has moved steadily upward.
