unit sales / recurring subscriptions / licensing

tiered / subscription-based / negotiated

67.8% Gross Margin (Premium (>60%))

product sales / licensing / subscriptions

Direct sales force for large OEM customers; distributor channel for semiconductor; resellers and cloud providers for software

enterprise / hyperscaler

government

semiconductor manufacturer / software vendor

software-as-a-service / cloud infrastructure

High

85.4% OpEx / Revenue (High Cost Structure)

Global

Medium

Low

Yes

High

High

Moderate

Partial

High

13.3% Return on Assets (Excellent)

Mixed

Moderate

1.72x Total Debt / Equity (Elevated leverage)

Low intensity; China's 2023-2025 export-licensing regime on gallium, germanium, antimony, and rare-earth magnet materials — merely suspended for US-bound shipments until the November 2026 cliff, with licensing still in force — combined with advanced-node wafer fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, makes single-jurisdiction supply cutoff rather than commodity price the sector's binding 2026 chokepoint.

27.9% OpEx as % Revenue (Linear/Manual)

N-A

High

["11-0000 Management Occupations", "13-0000 Business and Financial Operations Occupations", "15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations", "17-0000 Architecture and Engineering Occupations", "23-0000 Legal Occupations", "41-0000 Sales and Related Occupations", "43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations"]

0.34 (HIL — ~34% of characteristic roles agent-automatable)

Low intensity; commodities: silicon (polysilicon/wafers), copper, gold, aluminum, rare earth elements (NdPr magnets), gallium/germanium, tin (solder); geopolitical: China's 2023-2025 export-licensing regime on gallium, germanium, antimony, and rare-earth magnet materials — merely suspended for US-bound shipments until the November 2026 cliff, with licensing still in force — combined with advanced-node wafer fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, makes single-jurisdiction supply cutoff rather than commodity price the sector's binding 2026 chokepoint.

Medium burden; regimes: FTC, DOJ, GDPR, FCC, CFIUS, SEC; Antitrust breakup risk and cross-border data sovereignty rules are escalating.

0001730168

AVGO

1.0% CapEx / Revenue (Low-CapEx Asset-Light)

Moderate

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75

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2026-09-23

2026-10-03T13:38|activist_13d_count_1y,activist_last_13d_date,blockholder_13g_count_1y,insider_buys_6m,insider_last_transaction_date,insider_net_shares_6m,insider_sells_6m

33,000; ~49% North America, ~36% Asia, ~15% EMEA

High-Founder-Dependent

Omitted - filing names only competitor categories, not specific named competitors

Fragmented

Semiconductor solutions = 58% of revenue; Infrastructure software = 42% of revenue

Dividend+Buyback

Moderate - export controls, tariffs, and China restrictions without material quantified impact stated

Pronounced - timing of customer orders and design wins in AI and wireless applications

Affirmed

High - sales through distributors with inventory decoupling; 48% of revenue to distributors

Yes - regulatory investigations into contracting and business practices in Korea, Japan, and European Union

Low - no long-term capacity commitments with contract manufacturers

No

NIST CSF; ISO 27001

Audit Committee (with Board of Directors involvement)

Low - foreign currency exposure not material

FX forwards on foreign currency exposures; no commodity hedging disclosed; treasury rate lock contracts for interest rate risk

0

2

none in window

unit sales / recurring subscriptions / licensing

tiered / subscription-based / negotiated

67.8% Gross Margin (Premium (>60%))

product sales / licensing / subscriptions

Direct sales force for large OEM customers; distributor channel for semiconductor; resellers and cloud providers for software

enterprise / hyperscaler

government

semiconductor manufacturer / software vendor

software-as-a-service / cloud infrastructure

High

85.4% OpEx / Revenue (High Cost Structure)

Global

Medium

Low

Yes

High

High

Moderate

Partial

High

13.3% Return on Assets (Excellent)

Mixed

Moderate

1.72x Total Debt / Equity (Elevated leverage)

Low intensity; China's 2023-2025 export-licensing regime on gallium, germanium, antimony, and rare-earth magnet materials — merely suspended for US-bound shipments until the November 2026 cliff, with licensing still in force — combined with advanced-node wafer fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, makes single-jurisdiction supply cutoff rather than commodity price the sector's binding 2026 chokepoint.

27.9% OpEx as % Revenue (Linear/Manual)

N-A

High

["11-0000 Management Occupations", "13-0000 Business and Financial Operations Occupations", "15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations", "17-0000 Architecture and Engineering Occupations", "23-0000 Legal Occupations", "41-0000 Sales and Related Occupations", "43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations"]

0.34 (HIL — ~34% of characteristic roles agent-automatable)

Low intensity; commodities: silicon (polysilicon/wafers), copper, gold, aluminum, rare earth elements (NdPr magnets), gallium/germanium, tin (solder); geopolitical: China's 2023-2025 export-licensing regime on gallium, germanium, antimony, and rare-earth magnet materials — merely suspended for US-bound shipments until the November 2026 cliff, with licensing still in force — combined with advanced-node wafer fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, makes single-jurisdiction supply cutoff rather than commodity price the sector's binding 2026 chokepoint.

Medium burden; regimes: FTC, DOJ, GDPR, FCC, CFIUS, SEC; Antitrust breakup risk and cross-border data sovereignty rules are escalating.

0001730168

AVGO

1.0% CapEx / Revenue (Low-CapEx Asset-Light)

Moderate

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1

75

-1493308

2026-09-23

2026-10-03T13:38|activist_13d_count_1y,activist_last_13d_date,blockholder_13g_count_1y,insider_buys_6m,insider_last_transaction_date,insider_net_shares_6m,insider_sells_6m

33,000; ~49% North America, ~36% Asia, ~15% EMEA

High-Founder-Dependent

Omitted - filing names only competitor categories, not specific named competitors

Fragmented

Semiconductor solutions = 58% of revenue; Infrastructure software = 42% of revenue

Dividend+Buyback

Moderate - export controls, tariffs, and China restrictions without material quantified impact stated

Pronounced - timing of customer orders and design wins in AI and wireless applications

Affirmed

High - sales through distributors with inventory decoupling; 48% of revenue to distributors

Yes - regulatory investigations into contracting and business practices in Korea, Japan, and European Union

Low - no long-term capacity commitments with contract manufacturers

No

NIST CSF; ISO 27001

Audit Committee (with Board of Directors involvement)

Low - foreign currency exposure not material

FX forwards on foreign currency exposures; no commodity hedging disclosed; treasury rate lock contracts for interest rate risk

0

2

none in window