
Qualcomm, Apple, Concur: Tech Premarket
NEW YORK (
) --
Qualcomm
(QCOM) - Get Report
was a big winner in premarket trading following the company's strong
, released on Wednesday.
The chipmaker's shares climbed 7.5% to $62.48 before market open on share volume of 47,415 after Qualcomm surged past analysts' estimates, boosted by robust smartphone demand.
The San Diego company reported revenue of $4.87 billion and earnings of 89 cents a share. Qualcomm's revenue represented an 18% year-over-year hike and a 5% sequential increase. Analysts surveyed by
Thomson Reuters
were looking for earnings of 82 cents a share on revenue of $4.659 billion.
Qualcomm, which is a key
Apple
(AAPL) - Get Report
partner, also offered healthy guidance. For the first quarter, the company expects revenue between $5.6 billion and $6.1 billion, and non-GAAP earnings between $1.08 and $1.16 a share. Analysts forecast sales of $5.295 billion and earnings of $1 a share.
Early on Thursday, the chip specialist's incubator subsidiary,
Qualcomm Labs
, also announced the first firms for funding through its QualcommLabs@EvoNexus program. They are:
Arynga
, a software solutions and services company;
FatSkunk
, which has developed software for mobile malware detection; and Breadcrumbs, a mobile app for Android and iOS that provides an automatic timeline of a user's day. Arynga and FatSkunk will both receive $250,000 in funding, with Breadcrumbs receiving $50,000.
Apple was also a gainer in premarket trading, rising 0.77% to $562.3 on share volume of 77,897. The tech giant's shares closed down 3.83% on Wednesday.
Shares of software maker
Concur Technologies
(CNQR)
, however, plunged 8.99% to $59.12 with investors unimpressed by the travel and expense management specialist's fourth-quarter results on Wednesday. Despite comfortably beating analysts' profit estimate, Concur's revenue came in just below Wall Street's forecast.
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shares were unchanged at $20.47 on share volume of 56,750.
--Written by James Rogers in New York.
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