QCOM: The Sleeping 5G Giant AwakensOne of the major drivers of growth over the next few years will be technologies built around increasing the networking speeds of smartphones and computers. Qualcomm is at the center of that innovation, and they've proven themselves a technology and semiconductor powerhouse time and again. The last decade of smartphones I owned exclusively used QCOM chips in them!
QCOM is below it's 200 day average having missed the January rally that the rest of the market enjoyed. However, MACD has broken positive in the last week, and the histogram has been consistently positive since early January. Momentum has remained negative, but is closing on a zero crossing in the next week if the current price action takes hold. QCOM has had a weak uptrend for a month already that is slowly beginning to build steam according to ADX. Directional movement is showing a divergence between +DI and -DI with -DI crossing downward over ADX as a bullish buy signal according to my technical strategy. RSI has been over 50 for a while and is beginning to break 60 and approach 75, so this is still a good a good buying price.
For fundamentals, earnings reported at the end of January were strong, but QCOM seemed to languish horizontally along with the rest of the S&P500 for the month of February. P/E is at a comfortable 35 which is pretty low for the tech sector, and they have a large upward retracement from the Q3/Q4 2018 correction to recover. The P/E growth ratio is 1.42, so this is still more of a growth stock than a value stock, and it will begin to act like one once an upward price trend takes hold.
