This Quality Stock Trades at a Surprising Discount. Is It a Must-Buy?

Broadcom is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. Its stock has languished since December 2025 over fears about XPU profitability and competition with MediaTek. We don’t see either as a material threat to results, though. Broadcom’s recent long-term agreement with Google should assuage some fears of losing share to MediaTek. We think the stock’s pullback provides long-term investors with an excellent opportunity to buy this high-quality stock at a rare discount to fair value. The stock is so attractive that Morningstar Chief US Market Strategist Dave Sekera included it as one of his stock picks in a recent episode of The Morning Filter podcast, 5 Stocks to Buy Before Growth Stocks Come Back.

Broadcom is an amalgamation of high-value, differentiated, and moaty chip and software businesses. The company is a prolific generator of cash flow and a terrific aggregator of companies, big and small. Its ability to acquire and streamline businesses generates strong profits and cash flow and fuels robust shareholder returns. We laud Broadcom for its execution and operating efficiency, which build upon its large organic investment and help it to outperform its end markets organically.

Key Morningstar Metrics for Broadcom

• Fair Value Estimate
  : $500
• Star Rating
  : 4 Stars
• Economic Moat Rating
  : Wide
• Uncertainty Rating
  : High

Economic Moat Rating

We believe Broadcom holds a wide economic moat resulting from intangible assets in chip design and switching costs for its software products. Strength in both chips and software allows the company to earn terrific accounting and economic profits, and we believe its competitive positioning will allow the company to do so, more likely than not, for the next 20 years. While we see most of Broadcom’s businesses as moaty in isolation, we believe its ability to aggregate disparate businesses via acquisitions and run them with great efficiency reinforces its wide moat. We see this evidenced in impressive operating and economic profit margins.

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Fair Value Estimate for Broadcom Stock

Our $500 fair value estimate implies fiscal 2026 and 2027 adjusted price/earnings multiples of 45 times and 30 times, respectively, and a fiscal 2026 enterprise value/sales multiple of 23 times. We model 38% revenue growth through fiscal 2030, driven predominantly by the growth of semiconductor revenue and primarily the AI chip business. We believe Broadcom will continue to exert operating leverage and keep operating expenses rising slower than sales growth. We expect non-GAAP gross margin to compress below 70% in fiscal 2030, from 79% in fiscal 2025. Nonetheless, we expect non-GAAP operating margin to hold steady in the low 60s.

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Risk and Uncertainty

Broadcom is increasingly concentrated in its AI accelerator business, which consists of a handful of high-spending customers like Google and Anthropic. Changes in their spending patterns and overall AI demand can create fluctuations in Broadcom’s results and affect market sentiment on its stock. Broadcom is highly sensitive to the rate of AI investment over the next five years and the secular trend toward custom silicon. Broadcom relies heavily on TSMC for its chips, and supply constraints could hamper its ability to ship to customers. We believe there is key-person risk with CEO Hock Tan, who is in his 70s.

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Broadcom Bulls Say

• Broadcom is best-of-breed in custom AI accelerators, boasting the largest customer in Google and layering new customers in like Anthropic and OpenAI. Rising AI spending portends immense growth.
• Broadcom is an exemplar of operating efficiency. It earns excellent operating margins and generates enormous cash flow. It is particularly strong at acquiring companies and trimming excess expenses.
• While smaller relative to the size of its rising AI chip business, Broadcom’s traditional networking chips and VMware software are moaty businesses in their own right that generate good cash flow.

Broadcom Bears Say

• Broadcom’s chip business bears significant customer concentration, with a small handful of large AI customers driving the bulk of revenue and future growth.
• Broadcom’s software portfolio holds legacy and mature businesses, like virtualization and mainframes, which we think will exhibit moderating growth.
• Broadcom relies heavily on acquisitions to expand its portfolio and may struggle to find deals that are large enough to move the needle and also can pass antitrust scrutiny.

This article was compiled by Susan Dziubinski and Sylvia Hauser. Data as of April 13, 2026, close unless otherwise noted.