Growth Metrics

Qualcomm (QCOM) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Qualcomm has reported Tax Rate over the past 17 years, most recently at 15.31% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Tax Rate at 15.31% for Q4 2025, up 279.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 57.34% (up 5252.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 56.24%, up 5406.0%.
  • Tax Rate for Q4 2025 was 15.31% at Qualcomm, down from 204.91% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Tax Rate for QCOM hit a ceiling of 204.91% in Q3 2025 and a floor of 14.72% in Q3 2023.
  • Median Tax Rate over the past 5 years was 10.19% (2021), compared with a mean of 17.92%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: crashed -3048bps in 2023 and later skyrocketed 21720bps in 2025.
  • Qualcomm's Tax Rate stood at 12.06% in 2021, then crashed by -66bps to 4.13% in 2022, then grew by 23bps to 5.1% in 2023, then soared by 146bps to 12.52% in 2024, then grew by 22bps to 15.31% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Tax Rate were 15.31% (Q4 2025), 204.91% (Q3 2025), and 9.69% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.