Broadcom Inc operates in the Semiconductors and related devices sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Broadcom Inc with three other companies in this sector in UNITED STATES : Micron Technology, Inc. (2020 sales of $21.44 billion of which 43% was Compute and Networking Business Unit), NVIDIA Corporation ($16.68 billion of which 59% was Graphics), and Applied Materials, Inc. ($17.20 billion of which 66% was Semiconductor Systems).

Sales Analysis. During the third calendar quarter of 2021, sales at Broadcom Inc totalled $6.78 billion. This is an increase of 16.4% from the $5.82 billion in sales at the company during the third quarter of 2020. During the first three quarters of 2021, sales totalled $20.04 billion, which is 15.1% higher than through the first three calendar quarters of 2020. During the previous 25 quarters, sales at Broadcom Inc have increased compared with the same quarter in the previous year. There appears to be at least some degree of seasonality in the sales at Broadcom Inc: during 6 of the previous 7 calendar years, sales were highest during the fourth quarter. The exception to this was during 2019, when the first quarter was the best quarter, accounting for 26% of sales (during that same year, the fourth quarter accounted for 26% of sales). Broadcom Inc reported sales of $23.89 billion for the fiscal year ending October of 2020. This represents an increase of 5.7% versus 2019, when the company's sales were $22.60 billion. Sales at Broadcom Inc have increased during each of the previous five years (and since 2015, sales have increased a total of 250%). Sales of Infrastructure Software saw an increase that was more than double the company's growth rate: sales were up 28.4% in 2020, from $5.16 billion to $6.62 billion. Not all segments of Broadcom Inc experienced an increase in sales in 2020: sales of Semiconductor Solutions fell 0.6% to $17.27 billion.