Qualcomm Share Price Today

(NASDAQ: QCOM)

Qualcomm's share price today stands at $165.43, Open. $174.98 ; Previous Close. $173.70 ; High. $175.32 ; Low. $165.40 ; 52 Week High. $230.63 ; 52 Week Low: $149.43

The stock opens at $174.98, after a previous close of $173.70. The stock reached a daily high of $175.32 and a low of $165.40, with a 52-week high of $230.63 and a 52-week low of $149.43.

You can buy Qualcomm shares starting ₹86.58 or $1 as on January 14 on the INDmoney app.

Indian investors can buy Qualcomm shares in fractions or a part of the whole stock value instead of the entire stock. In simple terms, you can even buy 0.1 or any fraction of Qualcomm stock units. 

Let us understand this better with an example, if you have $10 or ₹865.8 to invest and the cost of Qualcomm stock is $157.13 or ₹13,604.31, you can still invest your $10 or ₹865.8 and get 10/157.13 that is 0.063 units of the Qualcomm stock in your account.

Another way to understand this is, if 1 Qualcomm stock costs $157.13 or ₹13,604.31, you can buy Qualcomm stock worth $250 or ₹21,645 which will give you 250/157.13 units which means you will get 1.59 Qualcomm shares.

An investor investing in US stocks from India not only benefits from stock or capital returns but also gets the benefit of dollar appreciation versus rupees.

If an Indian resident would have invested in Qualcomm from India, 5 years ago then the total returns (including dollar appreciation) from Qualcomm stocks would be 112%. The annualised return would be 16%. 

To understand this in simple terms, capital appreciation in the last 5 years from Qualcomm stocks would be 73.51%. 

On top of this, the investors will enjoy the gains from appreciation in dollar value versus rupees which would be 22.19%. The calculation is for the last 5 years.

Hence, investing in US stocks from the US will only give an investor capital gains, but an Indian investor will enjoy additional gains from dollar appreciation.

Qualcomm stock has given 112% returns in the last 5 years, whereas Broadcom and Nvidia stocks have given 793% and 2,534% returns, respectively . $100 invested in Qualcomm stock 5 years ago would have become $212 and $100 invested in Broadcom and Nvidia stocks would have become $893 and $2,634, respectively.

5 years returns of Qualcomm → 112% (Capital Appreciation 73.51% & Dollar Appreciation 19.44%)

5 years returns of Broadcom → 793% (Capital Appreciation 631.22% & Dollar Appreciation 19.44%)

5 years returns of Nvidia → 2,534% (Capital Appreciation 2,055.83% & Dollar Appreciation 19.44%)

$100 invested in Qualcomm vs Broadcom vs Nvidia stock 5 years ago:

Qualcomm has paid a total of $14.69 in dividends per share in the last 5 years which translates into ₹1,179.05. So if you had 10 Qualcomm shares you would have received ₹11,790 in dividends in India from your Qualcomm stocks.

Qualcomm declares dividends every quarter. The latest dividend amount Qualcomm paid each shareholder was $0.85 or 72.25 per share in December 2024. For investors holding shares in fractions the same amount was paid in proportion to the units of shares they hold. For example, if an investor has less than 1 share ~ 0.5 units, they will still receive $0.42 or ₹36.12 in dividends.

Qualcomm's shareholders include individual investors, mutual funds, hedge funds, and institutions. Some of its largest shareholders include: Vanguard Group Inc ($17.75 billion), Blackrock Inc ($15.18 billion), State Street Corporation ($8 billion). Geode Capital Management, Morgan Stanley, Norges Bank also hold significant stakes worth up to $4.2 billion.