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$165.41 +$8.66 (+5.52%)
Market closed · Nov 7, 9:10 am ET · Last extended-hours $165.61 +0.12%
Open$161.28
Prev close$156.75
Day range$159.11 – $167.47
Volume19.69M
Market cap$176.99B
P/E (TTM)13.0
Dividend yield2.19%
Founded1985
CEOMr. Cristiano R. Amon
Employees52,000
HeadquartersSan Diego, United States of America
Websitewww.qualcomm.com

About

Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon chips in many Android phones, and licenses cellular patents, with growth efforts in cars and PCs.

What tends to move the stock

Apple's move to its own modems and the smartphone cycle are the main risks, while auto and AI PC chips are the offsets.

Revenue per employee

$550.5K$663.7K$776.9K$890.1KSep '18Sep '21Sep '25

52,000 employees as of 2025/FY (+6.1% YoY). Revenue per employee is total revenue divided by headcount — a rough productivity gauge, not a per-worker pay figure.

Management team

Cristiano R. Amon Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Age 55 · Total comp. $29,701,097.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Mr. Amon has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors since June 2021. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer-elect from January 2021 to June 2021 and President from January 2018 to January 2021. Mr. Amon served as Executive Vice President, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, and President, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), from November 2015 to January 2018. He served as Executive Vice President, QTI and Co-President, QCT from October 2012 to November 2015, Senior Vice President and Co-President, QCT from June 2012 to October 2012 and as Senior Vice President, QCT Product Management from October 2007 to June 2012, with responsibility for our product roadmap, including our Snapdragon platforms. Mr. Amon joined Qualcomm in 1995 as an engineer and throughout his tenure at Qualcomm has held several other technical and leadership positions. Mr. Amon holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate from UNICAMP, the State University of Campinas, Brazil. OTHER PUBLIC COMPANY BOARDS: Adobe Inc. (since October 2023)

Akash J. Palkhiwala Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
Age 50 · Total comp. $13,135,120.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Akash Palkhiwala, Current position: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), since November 2019, and Chief Operating Officer, since January 2024. Senior Vice President and Interim CFO, August 2019 to November 2019. Senior Vice President, QCT Finance, QTI, December 2015 to August 2019. Senior Vice President and Treasurer, October 2014 to December 2015.

Alexander H. Rogers Executive Vice President and President, QTL and Global Affairs
Age 68 · Total comp. $9,703,234.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Alexander H. Rogers, Current position: Executive Vice President and President, Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL) and Global Affairs, since June 2021. Executive Vice President and President, QTL, October 2016 to June 2021. Senior Vice President and President, QTL, September 2016 to October 2016. Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and General Manager, QTL, March 2016 to September 2016. Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, October 2015 to March 2016. Senior Vice President, Legal Counsel, April 2007 to October 2015.

Dr. Baaziz Achour Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
Age 64 · Total comp. $9,465,750.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Baaziz Achour, Current position: Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, QTI, since February 2025. Chief Technology Officer?-?Elect, December 2024 to February 2025. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, April 2023 to December 2024. Senior Vice President, Engineering, July 2006 to April 2023.

Ann C. Chaplin Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Age 52 · Total comp. $9,003,932.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Ann Chaplin, Current position: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, since November 2021. Various legal leadership positions at General Motors Company, December 2015 to October 2021 (last serving as Corporate Secretary & Deputy General Counsel). Attorney at the law firm of Fish & Richardson P.C., February 2001 to December 2015 (last serving as Litigation Practice Group Leader/Litigation Equity Principal).

Mark D. McLaughlin Chairman of the Board
Age 60 · Total comp. $606,902.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Mr. McLaughlin served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Palo Alto Networks, Inc., a global cybersecurity company, from June 2018 to December 2022. He served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Palo Alto Networks from August 2016 to June 2018 and as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer from April 2012 to August 2016. Mr. McLaughlin joined Palo Alto Networks as President and Chief Executive Officer, and as a director, in August 2011 and became Chairman of the Board in April 2012. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director of VeriSign, Inc. from August 2009 to August 2011 and as President and Chief Operating Officer from January 2009 to August 2009. Mr. McLaughlin served in various other management and leadership roles at VeriSign from February 2000 through November 2007 and provided consulting services to VeriSign from November 2008 to January 2009. Prior to joining VeriSign, Mr. McLaughlin was Vice President, Sales and Business Development at Signio Inc., which was acquired by VeriSign in February 2000. Mr. McLaughlin served on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) from January 2011 to April 2023 and as Chairman of the NSTAC from November 2014 to December 2016. Mr. McLaughlin holds a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law.

Marie Myers Independent Director
Age 57 · Total comp. $481,667.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Ms. Myers has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE), a global edge-to-cloud technology company, since January 2024. She served as Chief Financial Officer of HP Inc. (HP) from February 2021 to January 2024, acting Chief Financial Officer from October 2020 to February 2021, Chief Transformation Officer from June 2020 to May 2021, and Chief Digital Officer from March 2020 to June 2020. Ms. Myers served as the Chief Financial Officer of UiPath Inc. from December 2018 to December 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Myers held various positions within the audit and finance organizations of HP and the Hewlett-Packard Company beginning in 2001. Ms. Myers previously served as a director of KLA Corporation from February 2020 to November 2024 and F5 Networks, Inc. from January 2019 to January 2024. Ms. Myers holds a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland and an M.B.A. with a focus in marketing and finance from the University of St. Thomas.

Irene B. Rosenfeld Independent Director
Age 72 · Total comp. $465,001.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Ms. Rosenfeld served as Chairman of the Board of Mondelez International, Inc., a global snack food and beverage company (which changed its name from Kraft Foods, Inc. in October 2012), from November 2017 to March 2018, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from March 2007 to November 2017 and as Chief Executive Officer and a director from June 2006 to March 2007. Prior to that, she served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, Inc., from September 2004 to June 2006. Ms. Rosenfeld was employed continuously by Mondelez International and its predecessor companies, in various capacities from 1981 to 2003, including President, Kraft Foods North America; President, Kraft Foods Operations, Technology & Information Systems; and President, Kraft Foods Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Ms. Rosenfeld holds a B.A. in Psychology, an M.S. in Business and a Ph.D. in Marketing & Statistics from Cornell University.

Kornelis Smit Independent Director
Age 66 · Total comp. $440,001.00 · As of 15 Dec 2025

Mr. Smit served as Vice Chairman of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company, from April 2017 to December 2021. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, from November 2011 to April 2017 and President from March 2010 to November 2011. Before joining Comcast, Mr. Smit served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Charter Communications, Inc. from August 2005 to March 2010. Prior to joining Charter Communications, he served as President of AOL Access (AOL/Time Warner) and held various leadership positions at Nabisco and Pillsbury. Mr. Smit also served on the Board of Visitors for Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University from 2010 to 2021. He previously served in the United States Navy as a member on the SEAL Teams and retired from the service as a Lieutenant Commander. Education: Mr. Smit holds a B.S. in Geology from Duke University and an M.A. in International Business from Tufts University-Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. On December 10, 2025, Kornelis (Neil) Smit, a member of the Board of Directors of QUALCOMM Incorporated, informed the Board that he will be retiring from the Board effective as of the Company's 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Jeffrey W. Henderson Independent Director
Age 61 · Total comp. $415,001.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026
Jean-Pascal Tricoire Independent Director
Age 62 · Total comp. $410,001.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026
Ann M. Livermore Independent Director
Age 67 · Total comp. $405,001.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Ms. Livermore served as Executive Vice President of the Enterprise Business at Hewlett-Packard Company, an information technology company, from May 2004 to June 2011 and as Executive Vice President of HP Services from January 2002 to May 2004. She joined Hewlett-Packard in 1982 and served in a number of management and leadership positions across the company. Ms. Livermore previously served as a director of United Parcel Service, Inc. from November 1997 to May 2023 and Hewlett-Packard Company from June 2011 to November 2015. Ms. Livermore holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Sylvia Acevedo Independent Director
Age 68 · Total comp. $398,501.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Ms. Acevedo served as Chief Executive Officer of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, a national leadership development organization for girls, from May 2017 to August 2020 and as interim Chief Executive Officer from June 2016 to May 2017. She led a multiyear modernization, introducing more than 146 STEM and entrepreneurial programs across a nationwide membership. Ms. Acevedo served as White House Education Commissioner from May 2011 to September 2016. She was Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of CommuniCard LLC from October 2002 to March 2013 and Co-Founder and Vice President, Sales and Marketing of REBA Technologies Inc. from 2001 to 2002. Earlier in her career, she held leadership positions at Dell Inc., Autodesk, Inc., Apple Inc., IBM Corporation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has also advised national initiatives to expand STEM education with youth. Ms. Acevedo holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. She also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Washington College for her STEM national leadership and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Duke University. Ms. Acevedo has also earned an ESG Designation from Competent Boards. OTHER PUBLIC COMPANY BOARDS: Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (since December 2021)

Mark Fields Independent Director
Age 64 · Total comp. $390,001.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026
Jamie S. Miller Independent Director
Age 57 · Total comp. $390,001.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Ms. Miller has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of PayPal Holdings, Inc., a leading digital payments company, since November 2023 and as Chief Operating Officer of PayPal since February 2025. She served as Global Chief Financial Officer of Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY), a global provider of assurance, tax, strategy and transactions and consulting services, from February 2023 to June 2023 (having left the firm following EY's decision to abandon its proposed spin-off transaction). Ms. Miller served as Chief Financial Officer of Cargill, Incorporated, a global food, agricultural, financial and industrial products company, from June 2021 to January 2023 and as Head of Corporate Strategy and Development of Cargill from April 2022 to January 2023. Ms. Miller served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Electric Company (GE), a multinational power, renewable energy, aviation and healthcare company, from November 2017 to February 2020. She served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Transportation from October 2015 to November 2017, as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of GE from April 2013 to October 2015, and as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of GE from April 2008 to April 2013. Prior to joining GE in 2008, she served as Senior Vice President and Controller of WellPoint, Inc. (now Anthem), and as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Ms. Miller previously served as a director of Baker Hughes, a GE company, from July 2017 to September 2019. Ms. Miller holds a B.S. in Accounting from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Christopher D. Young Director
Total comp. $323,280.00 · As of 15 Jan 2026

On May 12, 2025, Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that its Board of Directors appointed Christopher Young to the Board, effective immediately . Most recently, Mr. Young served as Executive Vice President of Business Development, Strategy, and Ventures at Microsoft Corporation, a position he held since 2020. Prior to this role, Mr. Young was the CEO of McAfee, LLC from 2017 to 2020 and held senior leadership positions at Intel Corporation, Cisco Systems, and VMware, Inc. His career also includes significant contributions to EMC Corporation, AOL, Inc. and other technology companies. Mr. Young currently serves on the board of directors of American Express and has previously served on the boards of Snap Inc and Rapid7. Mr. Young has also served on the President's National Security and Telecommunications Advisory Committee and is a former Trustee of Princeton University. Mr. Young holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA in Public Policy from Princeton University. Mr. Christopher D. Young will be stepping down from the Board effective as of the Company's 2026 Annual Meeting.

Dr. Jeremy Kolter Independent Director
Age 42 · Total comp. $146,628.00 · As of 21 Jan 2026

Dr. Kolter is Professor and Department Head of the Machine Learning Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a role he has held since July 2024. He joined the CMU faculty in 2012, serving as Assistant Professor from August 2012 to July 2018 and Associate Professor from July 2018 to June 2024. His research focuses on AI safety, robustness and optimization. Dr. Kolter serves as a member of the board of directors at OpenAI, where he chairs the Safety and Security Committee, since August 2024. He is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Gray Swan AI, an AI security company, and an advisor to BNY. Dr. Kolter has also previously served as Chief Expert at Robert Bosch and as Chief Data Scientist at C3.ai. Dr. Kolter holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgetown University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Heather S. Ace Chief Human Resources Officer
Age 55 · As of 4 Nov 2025

Heather Ace, age 55, has served as Chief Human Resources Officer since March 2020. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Ms. Ace was Senior Vice President, Human Resources at DexCom, Inc., a provider of continuous glucose monitoring, from July 2016 to March 2020. Prior to DexCom, she was Executive Vice President, Human Resources at Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., a developer of treatments for obesity, from January 2016 to July 2016. Ms. Ace was Integration Leader for Royal Philips, leading the cross-functional integration of Philips Healthcare's acquisition of Volcano Corporation, from January 2015 to January 2016. She was Executive Vice President, Human Resources at Volcano Corporation from May 2012 to January 2015. Prior to May 2012, Ms. Ace served in various senior executive roles in human resources, post-acquisition/merger integration and employment law at Life Technologies Corporation. She began her career at Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper) as a litigation and transactional employment attorney, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Ace holds a B.A. in Law & Society from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a J.D. from Santa Clara School of Law.

Patricia Grech Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
Age 53 · As of 4 Nov 2025

On August 25, 2025, the Company appointed Patricia Grech to serve as its Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) effective immediately. Ms. Grech, age 53, served as Vice President, Finance and Controller of the Company since December 2022 and as Vice President, Finance of the Company from May 2017 to December 2022. She served in various other finance and accounting positions since joining the Company in 2006. Ms. Grech holds a B.S. in Accountancy and Finance from Miami University of Ohio and an M.B.A. from The Ohio State University.

From SEC filings, via Futu. Compensation is total reported pay for the most recent fiscal year on file, not base salary alone.

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