Hot Railroad Companies For 2015

Hot Railroad Companies For 2015: QUALCOMM Incorporated(QCOM)

QUALCOMM Incorporated engages in the development, design, manufacture, and marketing of digital wireless telecommunications products and services. The company operates in four segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), Qualcomm Wireless and Internet (QWI), and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI). The QCT segment develops and supplies code division multiple access (CDMA)-based integrated circuits and system software for wireless voice and data communications, multimedia functions and global positioning system products. The QTL segment grants licenses to use portions of its intellectual property portfolio comprising patent rights useful in the manufacture and sale of wireless products, such as products implementing cdmaOne, CDMA2000, WCDMA, CDMA TDD, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and/or OFDMA standards and their derivatives The QWI segment consists of Qualcomm Internet Services that provides content enablement services for the wireless industry and pu sh-to-talk and other products and services for wireless network operators; Qualcomm Government Technologies, which offers development, hardware, and analytical services to the United States government agencies involving wireless communications technologies; Qualcomm Enterprise Services that provides satellite and terrestrial-based two-way data messaging, position reporting, wireless application services, and managed data services to transportation and logistics companies and other enterprise companies; and Firethorn, which builds and manages software applications that enable mobile commerce services. The QSI segment makes strategic investments to support the worldwide adoption of CDMA- and OFDMA-based technologies and services. QUALCOMM Incorporated primarily operates in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Evan Niu, CFA]!

  Amid a broad market rally, mobile-chip giant Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM  ) sat on the sidelines this week, significantly lagging the rest of the market. What were investors worried about?

• [By Keith Speights]

  Telemedicine also holds promise for helping keep Medicare beneficiaries out of the hospital. Consulting firm Deloitte thinks that as much as $400 billion annually could be saved using telemedicine applications.Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM  ) stands as one of the leaders in technology that enables medical information from patients at home to be sent easily and inexpensively to clinical professionals. The mobile telecommunications giant has formed partnerships with at least18 medical application companies, 49 medical device makers, and 80 service providers to deliver telemedicine solutions.

• [By Motley Fool Staff]

  Need a reason to invest in stocks? How about the beginning of a new year. To help you find solid stock ideas we asked Fool.com contributors covering technology and consumer goods stocks to talk about top stocks for 2015. Read on to see what they had to say about Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM  ) , Facebook (NASDAQ: FB  ) , SeaWorld Entertainment (NYSE: SEAS  ) , WhiteWave Foods (NYSE: WWAV  ) , Google (NASDAQ: GOOG  ) (NASDAQ: GOOGL  ) , Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM  ) , and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) .

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT  ) also posted the narrowest of losses. Reports that the company will turn to Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM  ) to supply some chips for new versions of its Surface RT tablet were bad news for NVIDIA, which is the existing supplier for the Surface RT, but probably didn't move Microsoft's own stock substantially. In any event, the newer Surface Pro seems like a better prospect for Microsoft going forward, given its ability to run full versions of Windows 8 progr! ams despi! te its heftier price tag.

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