BroadcomAVGOBUYOct 14, 2020Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jul 02, 2026. Market Open.
Tried to corner the market by introducing some products that were not as open source, and the market pushed back. That's why it hasn't been able to accelerate its networking business as much as expected. Earnings disappointed. They'll turn it around, more to come on networking. Interesting on this pullback.
She owns players with more upside.
AVGO is like the smaller cousin of NVDA. Built GOOG's AI program, increasingly making waves with Anthropic (owns Claude). Interesting, but not a shoot-the-lights-out opportunity. He'd buy.
MRVL is trying to take a share of the chips that go into GOOG, and is already involved with AMZN cloud. Be careful. It's not a given that it's a capable designer of cutting-edge chips. Coin flip. We've been fooled before.
NVDA is actually more interesting than both.
All semis can get a big boost from a Biden win, because he will will likely relax US-China trade tensions which pressured markets during Trump's term. This and Nvidia are trying to do takeovers that require the permission of the Chinese government. Broadcom's CEO is very acquisitive, but ever since the trade war, China has made these deals very hard, while Washington treats AVGO as it it's too close to the Chinese government. So, without the trade war, AVGO can return to big deals.