We recently compiled a list of the 11 Trending AI Stocks on Latest News and Ratings. In this article, we are going to take a look at where QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) stands against the other trending AI stocks.
The extent to which AI tech may disrupt life as we know it in the coming years is still shrouded in mystery. However, multiple organizations have been making an effort to quantize these changes for a better understanding of the evolving business landscape. For example, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a London-based non-profit group, recently released a report detailing that AI may displace between 1 million to 3 million private sector jobs in the United Kingdom alone in the coming years. However, the report also stressed that the ultimate rise in unemployment will be in the low hundreds of thousands as growth in technology also creates new roles. Estimates from the non-profit suggest that at the peak of AI-led disruption, between 60,000 and 275,000 jobs will be displaced every year over a couple of decades.
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This number was put into larger context by the institute by highlighting that the average number of job losses in the European country over the past decade had been 450,000 a year. The AI-led disruption seems modest compared to these figures, per the report. The report further underlined that a common lesson was that AI was likely to increase the dynamism of the labor market by prompting more workers to leave existing jobs and start new ones. The institute noted that administrative and secretarial jobs would be the most exposed to the new technology, followed by sales and customer service, and banking and finance. The think tank research further claimed that deployment of AI could raise GDP by up to 1% over the next five years, rising to up to 6% by 2035.
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QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 100
QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) develops and sells foundational technologies for the wireless industry. On November 7, Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore lowered the price target on the stock to $204 from $207 and kept an Equal Weight rating on the shares. In the September quarter, Qualcomm benefited from increased content, a stable and growing premium tier handset market, and normalized inventory dynamics, noted the analyst, whose numbers are roughly unchanged following the report. The analyst now forecasts revenue of $10.3 billion for the March quarter and $2.66 EPS and for calendar 2025 it now models $42.6 billion and $11.32 in terms of revenue and EPS, respectively.
Overall QCOM ranks 8th on our list of the trending AI stocks on latest news and ratings. While we acknowledge the potential of QCOM as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than QCOM but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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