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Qualcomm Earnings Fall 9%

 
By Rex Crum
MarketWatch Pulse
     

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Qualcomm Inc. said Wednesday afternoon that earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter slipped 9% on lower sales of the company's wireless chipsets and related technology. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Qualcomm reported net income of $803 million, or 48 cents a share, compared to net income of $878 million, or 52 cents a share, for the same period the previous year. On a pro-forma basis, the company said its earnings would have been $811 million, or 48 cents a share, for the recent period. Revenue fell 19% to $2.69 billion. Analysts were expecting the company to earn 52 cents a share on revenue of $2.72 billion, according to consensus forecasts from FactSet Research.

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