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How Qualcomm Stock Reacted to Its Q2 2026 Earnings, Measured Minute by Minute

Every earnings headline that crossed for Qualcomm on 29 July 2026, with the price reaction measured from the instant each line printed.

Published in ET: Feed time in ET: Earnings QCOM -3.72% (15m)
  • Measured from the print at 20:00 UTC on 29 July 2026: $155.28 to $149.50 in fifteen minutes, -3.72%.
  • Every headline row is measured from its own instant, so the lines can be compared directly.
  • One-minute versus fifteen-minute readings show how fast the report was actually priced.

Qualcomm missed, and the tape did not wait for the detail. Measured from the instant the first line crossed at 20:00 UTC, the stock went from $155.28 to $149.50 inside fifteen minutes: -3.72%.

This page is the measured anatomy of that print on 29 July 2026: every earnings-related headline that crossed for Qualcomm, in order, each with the price reaction measured from its own instant.

The print, row by row

CrossedHeadline as recorded15-min move from that instantVolume vs normal
20:00 UTCQUALCOMM (QCOM) Q3 2026 (USD): Adj. EPS 2.21 (exp. 2.23), Revenue 9.95bln (exp. 9.68bln). Q4 adj. EPS view 2.05-2.25 (exp. 2.36)-3.72%42.31x
20:00 UTCReported: $QCOM Qualcomm Q3 Earnings-3.72%42.31x
21:09 UTCQualcomm (QCOM) CFO states anticipates Q4 QCT handset revenue of about USD 5.2bln, QCT IoT revenue to be roughly flat Y/Y and QCT automotive revenue t-0.63%

Which line actually moved it

Each row above is measured from its own instant — the price immediately before that specific headline crossed — so the rows can be compared directly. The largest single reaction, -3.72%, belongs to the 20:00 UTC line. By the time the 21:09 UTC line arrived, the measured response was -0.63% — the marginal information in each successive headline decays fast, and the decay is measurable.

Did the first read hold?

It did. By the close of the next session, Qualcomm stood at -2.62% against the prior close — the same direction the first fifteen minutes priced. The instant read and the considered read agreed.

Nothing exotic here — a miss, priced as one. What the measurement adds is the speed: the gap between the print instant and the fifteen-minute mark is how long a reader of the headline had before the information was fully in the price.

How these numbers were measured

We record the price of the instrument immediately before each headline crosses our tape, then again one minute and fifteen minutes later, together with traded volume against that instrument's own normal. Every figure on this page comes from those recordings — the timestamps are the actual instants the lines crossed. Nothing here is an estimate, a close-to-close change, or a model's guess. The method, the gates every page must pass, and how we correct errors are documented in our editorial standards.

How did Qualcomm stock react to its Q2 2026 earnings?

Measured from the instant the first headline crossed on 29 July 2026 at 20:00 UTC, Qualcomm moved from $155.28 to $149.50 over the following fifteen minutes — -3.72%. The measurement starts at the print itself, not at the open, so it isolates the report's own effect.

How fast was the report priced in?

One minute after the print the measured move was -3.98%; at fifteen minutes it was -3.72%. The gap between those two figures is the pricing-in window — how long the market took to finish reading.

Which headline moved Qualcomm the most?

The 20:00 UTC line carried the largest measured reaction of the sequence at -3.72%. Later lines measured progressively less — repeat information decays within minutes.

Sources

  • Qualcomm (QCOM) earnings report Q3 2026 - CNBC
    Qualcomm reported fiscal Q3 2026 results on 29 July 2026: revenue $9.95bn down 4%, net income $2bn or $1.87 per diluted share down 25%, handset chip revenue down 20%, and record automotive revenue up 61%.
  • Qualcomm Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 Results - Qualcomm IR
    Qualcomm reported fiscal Q3 2026 results on 29 July 2026: revenue $9.95bn down 4%, net income $2bn or $1.87 per diluted share down 25%, handset chip revenue down 20%, and record automotive revenue up 61%.

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