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Q1 FY2026 Reported Mar 4, 2026 FY End Oct
Earnings Deep Dive · Fiscal Q1 2026

Broadcom's AI inflection is no longer a thesis — it's a revenue line.

Total revenue reached a record $19.3B (+29% YoY), driven by an extraordinary 106% surge in AI semiconductor revenue to $8.4B. Management issued perhaps the most confident long-range AI guidance in semiconductor history, citing line-of-sight to >$100B in AI chip revenue in 2027.

Q1 Total Revenue
$19.3B
▲ +29% YoY
Record quarter
AI Semiconductor Rev.
$8.4B
▲ +106% YoY
Beat outlook
Adj. EBITDA Margin
68%
▲ +100bps vs guide
$13.1B absolute
Free Cash Flow
$8.0B
▲ +33% YoY
41% of revenue
Q2 FY26 Guidance
$22.0B
▲ +47% YoY
+$1.5B vs consensus
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Revenue & Growth Trajectory

Quarterly Revenue Trend
Last 8 quarters, $M · Guidance shown
GAAP
YoY Growth Rate
Revenue growth acceleration

"Today, in fact, we have line of sight to achieve AI revenue from chips — just chips — in excess of $100 billion in 2027. We have also secured the supply chain required to achieve this."

Hock Tan, CEO · Broadcom Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call, March 4, 2026
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Segment Performance

Semiconductor vs. Infrastructure Software
Segment revenue, last 6 quarters ($M)
Semis +52%
AI vs. Non-AI Semiconductor Revenue
Q1 FY2026 composition — and YoY growth
Q1 FY26
AI Accelerators (~67%)
AI Networking (~33%)
Non-AI Semis
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AI Networking — The Hidden Accelerator
AI networking grew 60% YoY in Q1, representing one-third of total AI revenue. In Q2, it is projected to grow to 40% of AI revenue (~$4.3B) — a $1.5B sequential jump in a single quarter.

Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 (100 Tbps) and Jericho3-AI switch chips are capturing hyperscaler cluster networking, as the fabric build-out now matches the intensity of compute provisioning.
Infrastructure Software Operating Metrics
VMware integration economics
VMware ARR +19%

Software Gross Margin93%
Software Operating Margin78%
VMware ARR Growth (YoY)19%
Q1 TCV Bookings vs. $9B Threshold>$9.2B
Software % of Total Revenue35%

"Our Infrastructure Software is not disrupted by AI. It allows enterprises to scale complex generative AI workloads effectively with agility that hardware alone cannot provide. We are confident that the growth in generative and agentic AI will create the need for more VMware, not less."

Hock Tan, CEO · Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call
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Profitability & Free Cash Flow

Adjusted EBITDA & Margin
$M and % of revenue, 8 quarters
68% Margin
Adjusted Free Cash Flow
$M quarterly, vs. shareholder returns
+33% YoY
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Operating Leverage in Action
Semiconductor operating margin expanded 260bps YoY to 60%. Software operating margin is up 190bps YoY to 78%. Consolidated operating margin reached 66.4%, +50bps YoY — with revenue growing faster than costs.
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Capital Returns: $10.9B in Q1
Broadcom repurchased $7.85B (~23M shares) plus paid $3.09B in dividends — returning more cash than it generated in FCF ($8.0B). A new $10B buyback authorisation through Dec 2026 was announced.
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Balance Sheet Snapshot
Cash of $14.2B. Net debt ~$51.9B (manageable vs. ~$32B annualised FCF run-rate). Inventories rose to $3.0B (68 days) — deliberate stocking to secure AI supply chain ahead of Q2 ramp.
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Earnings Per Share

Adjusted EPS Trend
Non-GAAP diluted EPS — 8 quarters + forward estimates
$2.05 Q1 Act.
Q1 vs. Consensus
Beat/miss vs. Street
Revenue+$0.13B beat
Adj. EPS+$0.02 beat
Semi Rev.+$0.27B beat
Infra SW Rev.-$0.22B miss
EBITDA Margin+100bps beat
Q2 Rev. Guide+$1.5B beat
Q2 AI Rev. Guide+$1.5B+ beat

"Our custom accelerator business grew 140% year-on-year in Q1. This momentum continues in Q2. Our ability to assure supply in these times of constrained capacity in leading-edge wafers, in High-Bandwidth Memory, and substrates ensures the durability of our partnerships — and we have fully secured capacity of these components for 2026 through 2028."

Hock Tan, CEO · Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call
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Forward Revenue Estimates

Q2 FY2026 figures are management guidance. Q3 FY2026 onward are Street consensus estimates as of March 2026.
Revenue Outlook: Q2 FY2026 → Q3 FY2027
$M — guidance + consensus estimates with EBITDA margin overlay
47%→82% YoY
Consensus Revenue Estimates
Quarterly forward schedule ($M)
Q2 FY26E (Guidance)$22,000M
Q3 FY26E$29,124M
Q4 FY26E$33,893M
Q1 FY27E$35,056M
Q2 FY27E$37,406M
Q3 FY27E$40,476M
FY26 Full-Year Est.~$88–90B
FY27 Full-Year Est.~$165B+
Free Cash Flow Outlook
Consensus FCF estimates ($M)

"That inference is driving a substantial amount of compute capacity, which is great for us — these players are on the path to creating their own custom accelerators, and beyond that, their own design architecture of networking clusters of those custom accelerators. I think we're going to see demand keep picking up."

Hock Tan, CEO · Q&A Session, Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call
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AI Customer Deployment Commitments

Estimated Gigawatt Deployments by Customer — 2027
Based on management commentary and public CapEx announcements. Illustrative sizing.
Path to $100B+
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Google — Ironwood TPU
Broadcom's longest-standing XPU customer. 7th-gen Ironwood TPU in active deployment. Estimated at 3+ gigawatts by 2027 — per Tan's comment that "Google should be bigger than Meta, like at least three." Likely the largest single contributor to the $100B+ target.
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OpenAI — First Custom Chip
Announced as the sixth named customer. Custom AI inference silicon in development; mass production expected late 2026. Management cited "greater than 1 GW for OpenAI in 2027" with a 10 GW commitment through 2029, implying a sharp 2028 inflection.
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Anthropic, Meta & Others
Anthropic targeting >3 GW in 2027 (up from ~1 GW in 2026). Meta's MTIA custom accelerator is in volume production and scaling to multiple gigawatts. A fifth (unnamed) customer rounds out the programme. Combined, these underpin the balance of the $100B+ 2027 target.
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Balance Sheet & Capital Allocation

Net Debt Trajectory
$M — declining leverage profile
Q1 Capital Allocation Waterfall
How Broadcom deployed cash in Q1 FY2026