Qualcomm reports on Wednesday November 4, 2026, and the row behind the November 4 morning scan reads $167.51, up 1.87% from the $164.43 close of November 3. For the QCOM earnings date November 2026 the number that frames everything else is the 17.3% the options market is charging for the three days around the print.
That is a wide number for a $178.87 billion company, and it is not what the score suggests. The score is 58 at rank 69 of ninety-three rows in our table. The book underneath it is 37 analysts, two strong buys, nine buys, twenty-three holds and three sells, and the sentiment reading from the last four quarters is Mixed.
Two things land on the same day. The print arrives on a calendar that carries twenty-two names, and on November 4 Yahoo Finance reported that SpaceX has selected QCOM for Starlink mobile, putting Starlink closer to becoming the fourth major wireless carrier in the United States.
One more piece of context, and it is the part the score does not carry. QCOM is down 10.72% over the last week and 9.05% over the month, having closed at $185.41 on October 29 and $162.08 on November 2. We have not found a dated company event that explains that week, so we are not going to invent one.
The row as it stands on November 4
Score 58, rank 69, sector Technology, print date November 4, earnings sentiment Mixed, short interest 3.1% of float, market capitalization $178.87 billion, implied volatility 156.7, and a price of $167.51 at the November 4 scan.
Decomposed, the 58 is 25 points for analyst coverage, because 37 analysts is more than that column can hold, 7.4 points for a 29.7% buy-side share, 4 points for two strong buys, the full 15 for a 24.5% five-day implied move, and 7 for the Mixed sentiment reading.
The implied-move column is the one deciding this row. A 24.5% five-day implied move takes the maximum 15 points, so a name the options market expects to be violent scores higher than a quiet one with a perfect analyst book.
When does QCOM report earnings?
Qualcomm reports on Wednesday November 4, 2026. The company scheduled the date in its own October 22 release of fourth-quarter and fiscal 2026 results, and TipRanks published a preview on November 4 confirming the print is on today's calendar.
Twenty-two rows on our board carry November 4, among them DDOG at a score of 98, APP at 81 and MELI at 78. That is the calendar context for the result: it lands on a day when a lot of companies report, into an open and busy tape rather than a quiet one.
The second thing on November 4 is the SpaceX agreement, reported by Yahoo Finance at 8:30 in the morning Eastern and covered the same morning by Light Reading.
Neither of those is the print. What they change is the order in which the market reads the quarter. The Starlink story is dated and public, and the earnings numbers arrive in the same session.
What is the market pricing into the November 4 print?
The options market is charging 17.3% for a three-day move, which puts the band at $138.51 to $196.51 around the $167.51 scan price. Over five days the band widens to $126.50 to $208.52, a 24.5% move.
That is one measurement rather than three. It is the at-the-money straddle cost scaled to the three-day, seven-day and fourteen-day columns, and the implied volatility of 156.7 sits beside it as the input. The straddle itself costs $15.50 on a two-day expiry.
The street's published target sits inside that band. The analyst target on the row is $186.49, 11.3% above the scan price, with $148.53 as the downside mark. A target 11.3% away and an implied band 17.3% wide are not the same statement: one is where the analysts think it lands, the other is where the market thinks it could land.
A 37-analyst book with twenty-three holds
Thirty-seven analysts cover QCOM: two strong buys, nine buys, twenty-three holds and three sells. Only 29.7% of that book is on the buy side, which is why the conviction column contributes 7.4 points out of a possible 25.
Twenty-three holds is the majority position, and it is what a name priced for a 17.3% move usually looks like. A hold says the print is worth seeing before the position is taken, and there are twenty-three of them.
Compare the same column across the board. SNOW has 52 analysts and 36 buys for a score of 97. OKTA has 44 analysts and 25 buys for a score of 92. MRVL has 44 analysts, 32 buys and no sells for a score of 83. QCOM has 37 analysts, 9 buys, and a hold rating from 23 of them.
The short base is not part of this story. At 3.1% of float, QCOM is one of the least crowded rows we carry: OKTA sits at 4.7%, SNOW at 5.4% and MRVL at 3.3%. There is no squeeze to lean on, and the implied move is not coming from one.
Mixed sentiment adds 7 points and no more. It reads the last four quarters of surprise, and it says the same thing as the book: the company has not been printing clean surprises in either direction.
- Print date November 4, 2026, set by Qualcomm's own October 22 scheduling release and confirmed by a November 4 preview.
- Price $167.51 at the November 4 scan, up 1.87% from the $164.43 November 3 close; week -10.72%, month -9.05%.
- Score 58 at rank 69 of ninety-three: 25 coverage, 7.4 conviction, 4 strong buys, 15 implied move, 7 sentiment.
- Book of 37 analysts with 2 strong buys, 9 buys, 23 holds and 3 sells, and 3.1% of float short.
- Implied move 17.3% over three days ($138.51 to $196.51) and 24.5% over five, on a $15.50 two-day straddle.
- Analyst target $186.49, 11.3% above the scan price, with $148.53 as the downside mark.
What would have to change for QCOM to be a buy before the print?
Two things. First the price: the stock is 9.6% below its October 29 close of $185.41 and 3.35% above its November 2 low of $162.08, so much of the week's decline is already in the number.
Second the book. Twenty-three holds move to buys when a number surprises, and the surprise has to clear a 17.3% implied band, not just meet the $186.49 target. A target inside the band is a low bar to clear.
What we will not do is call it a buy. This site publishes the scan, the score and the implied move, and the reader decides the position. What the numbers support is a large, liquid, closely followed name with a busy book that has not taken a side.
The most useful thing to watch is not the revenue line. It is whether the Starlink agreement announced on November 4 shows up in the guidance, because that part is dated, public and set, and the options market can price it.
How does QCOM's implied move compare with the rest of the board?
It is high, and it is not the highest. The 17.3% three-day implied move sits above OKTA at 15.8%, MRVL at 14.4%, MDB at 14.2% and SNOW at 12.0%.
It also sits below the volatile end of the board, where SEDG is at 30.4%, VST at 29.8% and RIOT at 34.8%.
The implied-volatility column says the same thing from another angle. QCOM's 156.7 is above MRVL at 79.7 and HPE at 85.8, and below SEDG at 275.0, VST at 269.3 and RIOT at 314.6.
What separates QCOM from those names is size and crowding. It is a $178.87 billion company with 3.1% of float short. SEDG is a $2.07 billion company with 20.7% short and a book of two buys against nineteen holds and four sells. Similar implied move, a completely different machine behind it.
So the QCOM earnings date November 2026 is November 4, and the setup is a large name with a full coverage score, a weak buy side, no short interest to lean on, a wide implied band, and a second headline running the same session. The numbers to watch are the $138.51 and $196.51 the options market is quoting for three days, and the $186.49 the street is asking for.
The November 4 scan put QCOM at $167.51 with a score of 58. Whether that is a buy before the print is not ours to say. Whether the market is paying $15.50 of straddle for two days of it is a fact, and every number behind this page is in our open data.
