Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom.
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Broadcom shares jumped about 9% Monday after Citigroup resumed its protection of the stock with a purchase ranking and up to date its worth goal to $1,100. Shares are at the moment buying and selling round $1,034.
Citigroup mentioned it resumed its protection of the semiconductor and software program firm in a word to traders Monday morning, citing “power in the core enterprise and accretion from the VMware acquisition.” Broadcom purchased VMware in November to bolster its cloud know-how infrastructure that it sells to different companies.
Broadcom is one in every of many corporations trying to revenue off the unreal intelligence growth, and has teamed up with companies resembling Google and Comcast to design and construct chips and different infrastructure for sure AI purposes, together with Google’s customized tensor processing unit. However, it is not aggressive with Nvidia in offering the GPUs used to coach cutting-edge generative AI fashions like those who energy OpenAI’s GPT.
Citigroup’s bullishness is basically as a result of it believes Broadcom is well-positioned to earn cash from the AI growth.
“We anticipate gross sales from AI infrastructure to double from $4 billion in F23 (11% of F23 gross sales) to over $8 billion in F24 (17% in F24 gross sales),” the analysts wrote.
Broadcom reported strong earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter final Thursday, which gave its shares a 2.4% increase to $944.30 at Friday’s market shut.
— CNBC’s Michael Bloom contributed to this report.