Broadcom NASDAQ:AVGO has risen more than 100% over the past 12 months, and the chip designer has beaten the S&P 500 SP:SPX in pretty much every time period from one month to five years. Let's see what its technical and fundamental analysis can show us.
Broadcom's Fundamental Analysis
Beyond designing high-quality chips, AVGO is also writing software and doing other interesting things as well.
The firm reported Q1 results in early March, posting $2.05 in adjusted earnings per share on $19.31 billion of revenue. Both numbers beat the Street's estimates, with sales seeing 29.4% year-over-year growth.
Management also issued Q2 sales guidance that easily bested the consensus view, although Broadcom won't report actual Q2 results until early June.
Let's go to the chart now, shall we?
Broadcom's Technical Analysis
Here's AVGO's chart running from mid-November through Wednesday's close (April 15):
Readers will first see that Broadcom has formed what's called a "rectangle" or "flat-base" pattern that's stretched over most of 2026 to date, as marked by the orange-shaded rectangle at the chart's right.
However, the stock has now broken out of that smallish pattern and retaken its 50-day Simple Moving Average (or "SMA," denoted with a blue line). It's also taken back its 200-day SMA (the red line) and 21-day Exponential Moving Average (or "EMA," marked with a green line).
All of that often helps get both portfolio managers and swing traders on the long side of a trade.
Meanwhile, AVGO is now developing a cup pattern, as denoted by the cup-like curving black line in the chart's center and right.
This might turn into a cup with handle, but either cup pattern (with or without a handle) is considered bullish. The only difference is in where to place the apparent pivot.
The potential pivot for a cup pattern without a handle is the cup's left-side apex -- around $414 in the above chart. However, the pivot will slide over to the cup's right side if the pattern adds a handle.
Some traders and investors are likely waiting to see if a handle develops. If it does, they might try to initiate some kind of starter position or seek an additional stake on what would be an implied temporary state of weakness.
Moving on to Broadcom's other technical indicators above, the stock's Relative Strength Index (the gray line at the chart's top) has just crossed into technically overbought territory. That doesn't mean the addition of a handle to the cup pattern is imminent, but it's certainly possible.
In the meantime, the stock's daily Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator (or "MACD," marked with blue bars and black and gold lines at the chart's bottom) is looking much better than it had been earlier.
The histogram of the 9-day EMA (the blue bars) has moved well into positive territory, which is a short-term bullish signal.
The 12-day EMA (the black line) and 26-day EMA (the gold line) have also moved above the zero-bound, with the black line riding above the gold one. This has been shown to be a reliable medium-term bullish indicator.
An Options Option
Some options traders who are bullish on AVGO are likely using what's called a "bull-put spread."
That's where you sell one put and buy another with a lower strike price, but where both expire on the same day. Here's an example:
-- Short one AVGO June 19 put with a $330 strike price (i.e., near the stock's 200-day SMA). This would bring in about $11 at recent prices.
-- Long one AVGO June 19 $310 put at a cost of roughly $7.
Net Credit: $4.
Traders using this strategy don't risk cash buying Broadcom equity at current market prices, but instead receive a $4 net credit.
Should the stock never trade down to $330, both options would expire worthless on June 19 and the trader would simply pocket the $4 net credit (the maximum theoretical gain).
And should the shares trade below $330 at expiration but not down to $310, the trader would end up long 100 AVGO shares of AVGO at a $326 net basis.
However, should the shares trade below $310 at expiration, the trader would purchase the stock at a $326 net basis and re-sell the shares at $310, for a $16 maximum theoretical loss.
(Moomoo Technologies Inc. Markets Commentator Stephen "Sarge" Guilfoyle had no position in AVGO at the time of writing this column.)
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