Broadcom Pitches a $230B 2028 Target — Why Is the Market Only Paying for Next Quarter?

Broadcom fell 2.74% on 2.35x volume, ~28% below its high, despite record revenue of $29.6bn, +86% YoY. Hock Tan set an FY2028 AI revenue target of $230bn, ~4x this year's — selling 2028 while the market pays for next quarter, which guided light. Macquarie upgraded at $490 on Anthropic's ramp; BofA cut its target while raising estimates — higher profits at a lower multiple. Peers held: Marvell +1.14%, Nvidia +1.80%. Bulls anchor on lock-in through 2028; bears on the discount rate: distant revenue is worth less until rates peak. Reprice on the $230bn roadmap, or wait for guidance to catch up?

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09-14 15:24

AI Leaders Are Starting to Say “Slow Down” — But Does That Really Mean AI CapEx Will Fall?

AI-linked stocks across Asia sold off sharply today. SoftBank, Kioxia, SK hynix, Samsung and TSMC all came under pressure as investors reacted to a growing debate around whether the industry should slow the pace of frontier AI development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for more time to evaluate safety risks before pushing model capabilities much further, while other major AI leaders have also shown support for stronger safeguards. The market’s first reaction is understandable: if even the AI labs themselves are saying “slow down,” does that mean the massive spending on GPUs, HBM, networking and data centers is also about to cool? Tiger thinks the answer may be more complicated. What may slow is the pace of frontier model training, not necessarily the overall demand for AI compute.
AI Leaders Are Starting to Say “Slow Down” — But Does That Really Mean AI CapEx Will Fall?

Could Rate Hike Uncertainty Keep Markets Range-Bound? Three Ways to Track the Key Assets

Last night, in a futures livestream on the Tiger platform, I shared my latest views on the outlook for gold, Bitcoin, and offshore RMB amid expectations for higher interest rates. The core of this session was how to assess the direction of these assets through cross-asset correlations, while also covering trading strategy execution and adjustments to moving average parameters. Those who were unable to attend may watch the replay of our video course here: >>> 空前的高收益率壓力下,為什麼比特幣的低位機會卻很值得關注? Next, I will summarize the key information and trading-related views from the session, so that readers who did not have time to join can quickly unders
Could Rate Hike Uncertainty Keep Markets Range-Bound? Three Ways to Track the Key Assets

Broadcom's $230B AI Vision vs. Near-Term Market Friction: Valuing Long-Term Dominance and Options Hedging Strategies

$Broadcom(AVGO)$ Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) recently presented a landmark long-term AI semiconductor revenue roadmap, projecting $58 billion in fiscal 2026, $115 billion in 2027, and an astounding $230 billion by fiscal 2028. Despite delivering stellar fiscal Q3 results—with total revenue surging 86% year-over-year to $29.59 billion and AI chip sales jumping 221% to $16.7 billion—shares fell post-earnings. This reaction highlights a sharp disconnect between Broadcom’s multi-year AI vision and the market’s immediate, reactive stance. The market’s short-term skepticism stems from four key drivers: Q4 Guidance Mismatch: Management guided Q4 revenue to ~$34.8 billion, slightly below average Wall Street estimates ($35.03B). Customer Concentration & Reven
Broadcom's $230B AI Vision vs. Near-Term Market Friction: Valuing Long-Term Dominance and Options Hedging Strategies

Broadcom Talked About US$230 Billion. The Market Counted US$200 Million.

One batch of results, three different share prices. $Dell Technologies Inc.(DELL)$ closed 15.81 per cent higher on Wednesday at US$492.20. Credo's revenue more than doubled from the previous quarter and the stock closed down 20.04 per cent at US$165.22. $Broadcom(AVGO)$ left its answer until after the close, beat on both revenue and earnings, and saw its shares push above US$370 before being knocked back below US$350. The hardest number in Dell's results is US$95 billion — a record order backlog for AI servers. It raised full-year revenue guidance by US$25 billion to US$192 billion at the same time. At least 15 firms moved their targets that day: UBS from US$455 to US$500,
Broadcom Talked About US$230 Billion. The Market Counted US$200 Million.
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09-02

Broadcom Earnings Tonight: Can AI Momentum and VMware Growth Keep the Rally Alive?

Introduction Tonight, after the U.S. market closes on 2 September 2026, $Broadcom(AVGO)$  will release its Fiscal Q3 2026 earnings results, with the numbers expected around 04:00 SGT on Thursday morning. This earnings report has become one of the most important events in the AI investment landscape. While$NVIDIA(NVDA)$  remains the dominant AI infrastructure company, Broadcom has quietly evolved into one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom through its custom AI accelerators, networking solutions, and VMware software business. AVGO Earnings Unlike NVIDIA, Broadcom is not dependent on a single product line. It has exposure to: 📎Custo
Broadcom Earnings Tonight: Can AI Momentum and VMware Growth Keep the Rally Alive?

🔥 $SNOW +22%, AVGO -5%. Same Earnings Night, Totally Different Stories 👀

👋 Hey everyone! Last night was wild. Three major tech companies reported earnings on the exact same evening — and the market gave three very different verdicts. $Snowflake(SNOW)$ surged more than 20%. $Broadcom(AVGO)$ initially sank despite spectacular numbers. $Hewlett Packard Enterprise(HPE)$ delivered record results — yet its shares also fell. Same earnings night. Same AI boom. Three very different market reactions. The difference wasn't simply who beat estimates. It was what investors had already priced in — and whether management gave them an even bigger reason to buy. Let's break down why. 🐯 01 The Night in N
🔥 $SNOW +22%, AVGO -5%. Same Earnings Night, Totally Different Stories 👀

Waller Said He Could Wait. The Market Didn't.

$S&P 500(.SPX)$ closed 1.06 per cent higher at 7,747.71 and $Dow Jones(.DJI)$ added more than 600 points, the best day for both in a month, and the reason was a sentence from Christopher Waller, a Federal Reserve governor. He said on Thursday that he is willing to support holding rates steady in September as long as inflation keeps moving towards 2 per cent. Bets on a September hike fell from above 60 per cent to a little over half, and the ten-year Treasury yield came back to around 4.75 per cent, a day after touching its highest in more than two years. Waller's reason for holding was to give disinflation a chance: "We can wait one meeting." In the same remarks he left
Waller Said He Could Wait. The Market Didn't.
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09-04

🔥 BROADCOM GREW AI REVENUE 221%. WALL STREET STILL SAID “NOT ENOUGH.”

There was a time when reporting 221% growth in AI revenue would have been enough to send almost any semiconductor stock flying. Broadcom just did exactly that. The stock fell anyway. And I think that tells us something much bigger about where the AI trade has reached. Broadcom didn’t report a weak quarter. It reported: 📈 Q3 revenue: US$29.6B, +86% YoY 🤖 AI semiconductor revenue: US$16.7B, +221% YoY 💰 Non-GAAP EPS: US$3.32, +96% YoY 💵 Free cash flow: US$13.7B 🚀 Q4 AI revenue guidance: US$21.7B, +236% YoY Broadcom also expects AI semiconductor revenue to reach approximately US$115B in FY2027 and potentially US$230B in FY2028. Read those numbers again. Then ask yourself: What exactly does an AI company have to do now to impress Wall Street? Because I don’t think Broadcom’s biggest problem is
🔥 BROADCOM GREW AI REVENUE 221%. WALL STREET STILL SAID “NOT ENOUGH.”

Broadcom Raises Its AI Revenue Target to $115 Billion, Yet Shares Still Fall: The Market Now Pays On

$Broadcom(AVGO)$ $Dell Technologies Inc.(DELL)$ $Palo Alto Networks(PANW)$ Broadcom delivered record results and raised its fiscal 2027 AI revenue target to $115 billion. However, its fourth-quarter revenue guidance fell about 0.7% short of market expectations—and that small gap still sent the stock down more than 6% at one point after hours. After the market closed on September 2, Broadcom $AVGO reported its fiscal third-quarter 2026 results: Revenue reached $29.591 billion, up 86% year over year and above the $29.36 billion consensus estimate; Adjusted earnings per share came in at $3.32, ahead of the $3.24 estima
Broadcom Raises Its AI Revenue Target to $115 Billion, Yet Shares Still Fall: The Market Now Pays On

Broadcom's Custom Silicon Surge vs. NVIDIA's GPU Hegemony: Portfolio Allocation in the Next Era of AI Infrastructure

$Broadcom(AVGO)$ Broadcom’s massive 143% surge in AI-related revenue represents a fundamental structural pivot in AI infrastructure rather than a transient spike. As hyper-scalers transition from generic model training to specialized execution, custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and high-speed networking silicon have emerged as central pillars of AI architecture. However, this growth does not signaling the dethroning of NVIDIA. NVIDIA maintains a dominant moat backed by its proprietary CUDA software platform, vertical integration, and full-stack system architectures. Rather than an "either/or" battle, the AI semiconductor market is bifurcating into complementary domains: NVIDIA standardizes off-the-shelf accelerated computing,
Broadcom's Custom Silicon Surge vs. NVIDIA's GPU Hegemony: Portfolio Allocation in the Next Era of AI Infrastructure

Tomorrow's Money Is Being Marked Down. Dell's Has Already Landed.

$Dow Jones(.DJI)$ fell 419 points on Tuesday, or 0.79 per cent, to 52,766.88; $S&P 500(.SPX)$ lost 0.71 per cent to 7,631.47; $Invesco QQQ(QQQ)$ fell 1.27 per cent. The selling started in the Middle East: US forces struck Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, and Brent crude jumped about 5 per cent on the day to around US$95, a level reports call its highest since late July. When oil goes up, the inflation maths has to be redone. The ten-year Treasury yield closed at 4.78 per cent, which reports put as the highest since January 2025; the thirty-year reached 5.27 per cent. Futures at the CME now put the odds
Tomorrow's Money Is Being Marked Down. Dell's Has Already Landed.
Broadcom is super plugged into the AI value chain. It doesn’t just produce AI chips for companies like Google, it also makes the networking chips needed to move huge volumes of data fast enough for the AI era. Its overall revenue rose 86% to $29.6b, but AI semiconductor revenue exploded 221% to $16.7b. Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom, said, “In Q4 the momentum continues, and we expect AI semiconductor revenue to accelerate to $21.7 billion, up 236% year over year.” But in FY28, Broadcom isn’t expecting 200% growth anymore in AI semiconductor revenue. Revenue is projected to hit $230b, up from an estimated $115b in FY27. Still, that’s 100% growth. The stock still fell, though. Expectations were even higher. Broadcom guided Q4 revenue to $34.8b, but LSEG consensus was about $35.03b,

Why Broadcom’s AI Forecast Can Rise While Its Stock Falls

$Broadcom(AVGO)$ has supplied extraordinary evidence that custom accelerators and networking are becoming a second major branch of the AI-chip market. Yet AVGO fell after the results because a great business result can still disappoint a stock carrying demanding expectations. Broadcom reported on September 2 for its fiscal third quarter ended August 2. Revenue rose 86% to $29.59 billion, GAAP operating income reached $15.96 billion and free cash flow was $13.67 billion, or 46% of revenue. AI semiconductor revenue increased 221% to $16.7 billion. Management expects that figure to reach $21.7 billion in the fourth quarter and guided total quarterly revenue to approximately $34.8 billion. Broadcom’s official results provide the reporting date, period
Why Broadcom’s AI Forecast Can Rise While Its Stock Falls

Broadcom: Options Playbook

Broadcom delivered strong Q3 numbers and mapped out massive multi-gigawatt custom AI chip orders across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta through 2028. However, an in-line near-term forecast triggered immediate post-earnings profit-taking, knocking shares down toward key chart support around $360. For options traders, this pullback creates defined-risk opportunities to monetize volatility rather than chasing momentum. Executive summary Achieved record Q3 revenue of $29.6 billion, up 86% year-over-year, driven by strong demand for AI accelerators and networking. Q3 GAAP operating income reached $16.0 billion; non-GAAP operating income was $20.1 billion, up 92% year-over-year. Q3 GAAP diluted EPS was $2.68; non-GAAP diluted EPS was $3.32, up 96% year-over-year. Free cash flow for Q3 was $13.7 bill
Broadcom: Options Playbook

Nasdaq-100 Falls ~1.3%, 7x Short DLC Gains ~9%; Broadcom Earnings Due 2 Sep

U.S. technology stocks mostly declined on Tuesday (1 September) amid a global bond sell-off, geopolitical tensions and renewed inflation concerns. Among DLC-covered underlyings, memory stocks $Micron Technology(MU)$ and $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ fell 2.6% and 1.9%, respectively. The moves lifted the Micron 3x Short DLC (1J9W) by about 7.8% and the Sandisk 3x Short DLC (NNSW) by about 5.7%, with the Micron 3x Long (VV9W) and Sandisk 3x Long (ZIPW) DLCs declining a similar magnitude respectively. The broad decline dragged the $NASDAQ 100(NDX)$ 1.29% lower. Amplifying the move, the Nasdaq 7x Short DLC (FFIW) surged around 9%, with the Nasdaq 7x Long DLC (MFVW) declining by
Nasdaq-100 Falls ~1.3%, 7x Short DLC Gains ~9%; Broadcom Earnings Due 2 Sep

One and One Green Technologies Procures More Than 2,000 Tons of Raw Materials for New Metals Recovery Line

Equipment Installation Underway; Company Expects to Begin Production Before Year-End 2026 $One and one Green(YDDL)$ , a Philippines-based recycler holding a government-issued license to import and process hazardous waste, today announced that it has procured more than 2,000 tons of raw materials for its new electronic sludge, copper sludge, and nickel sludge recovery line in Metro Manila, Philippines. Installation of the line’s smelting equipment is underway, and the Company expects to commence production before the end of 2026. The announcement marks the next phase of a project first disclosed in May 2026, when One and One announced the purchase of smelting equipment for the new production line. The Company is procuring raw materials concurrently
One and One Green Technologies Procures More Than 2,000 Tons of Raw Materials for New Metals Recovery Line
Broadcom (AVGO) reporting AI chip sales surging 143% YoY to ~$16B quarterly highlights its dominance in custom silicon (ASIC) and networking. Sitting ~25% off its peak at 18.9x forward earnings, the market is aggressively testing whether AVGO can clear Nvidia’s valuation benchmark amid macro rate headwinds. Core factors shaping the print: Custom Silicon Competition & Margins: Google deepening ties with Marvell threatens Broadcom’s historical ASIC exclusivity. A higher mix of Google TPU volumes—while growing top-line revenue—carries lower gross margins compared to proprietary GPU sales. Credit Risk in High-Rate Environments: Reports of seeking up to $80B in debt financing for Anthropic chip infrastructure have pushed credit-risk gauges higher. With the 10-year Treasury yield breaking 4.
I lean towards buying the pullback gradually rather than waiting for expectations to collapse. The $200m Q4 revenue miss matters because AVGO is priced for near-perfect execution, but the underlying AI story actually strengthened. AI semiconductor revenue hit $16.7bn, +221% YoY, with Q4 expected to accelerate to $21.7bn. More importantly, Broadcom now sees ~$115bn of AI semiconductor revenue in FY2027 and says demand exceeds that outlook. That makes the sell-off look more like a valuation reset than a thesis break. The warning from Credo is still important: at elevated multiples, beats are expected and margins/guidance determine the reaction. I would not chase AVGO immediately after the drop, but I also would not wait for a perfect entry. Scale in if weakness continues. The bigger question
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09-03
My Take: Expectations Matter More Than Earnings This earnings night shows a crucial market lesson: a stock doesn’t trade on how good the results are—it trades on how good they are versus expectations. SNOW was the biggest surprise because growth re-accelerated, product revenue jumped 37%, and full-year guidance was raised. Investors weren’t positioned for that combination, so the upside was explosive. AVGO was different. Its numbers were phenomenal, with AI semiconductor revenue soaring 221%, but expectations were already extreme. A tiny guidance shortfall and margin pressure were enough to trigger selling. HPE delivered strong results too, but without a major upside surprise. So when a stock barely moves after beating earnings, I don’t automatically see a warning. I see a market telling u
I would wait for the print rather than front-run it. Broadcom's AI story is clearly real: Q2 AI semiconductor revenue hit $10.8bn, +143% YoY, and management guided Q3 to $16bn. But the market already knows that. The real hurdle is whether those huge orders translate into durable margins and higher FY27 guidance. The heavier AI mix itself is expected to compress gross margin towards 74%, while Broadcom explicitly warns that custom accelerators and AI systems carry lower gross margins. The Google-Marvell threat also looks more medium-term than immediate, with Marvell saying the Google deal becomes much more significant only in FY29. So my trigger is not simply "$16bn AI revenue achieved". I want $16bn+, resilient margins and, most importantly, an upgrade or stronger evidence behind the $100b