QUALCOMM Incorporated QCOM Chief Executive

What Cristiano Amon says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Cristiano Amon

Cristiano Amon

President & CEO · QUALCOMM Incorporated

CEO since June 2021. 26-year Qualcomm veteran. Led diversification beyond smartphones into automotive and IoT.

@cristianoamon
What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
1/ 70
Level 1Steward

Amon owns about 0% of QUALCOMM Incorporated, worth $36.4M at the last close.

SEC filings
100
Stake 197,568 reported shares ≈ 0.0% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 4/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction Sold 170,000 shares ($28.5M) — more than a tenth of the stake — in the last year -10/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 100 filings 7/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 197,568 Every lot on the person's own filings, as of May 5, 2026
Last open-market trade Sale · $1.9M May 5, 2026 · 10,000 shares at $185.00 · under a 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2013-09-29 grant or award in QUALCOMM INC/DE was filed 2013-10-04, 5 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported QUALCOMM Incorporated shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-05-05
0100K200K300K 20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 May 2026: net −19,915 shares across 2 movements (largest: sale −10,000)Dec 2025: net +58,795 shares across 3 movements (largest: award +70,203)Oct 2025: net −140,428 shares across 3 movements (largest: sale −150,000) 197,568

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Common Stockby Trust197,568
Reported as of 2026-05-05197,568
Held directly
0%
Vehicles
1 trust or entity
Last filing
May 6, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 8 events folded from 15 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
May 5, 2026 Sale Open-market sale −10,000 $185.00 $1.9M Through by Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
May 4, 2026 Sale Open-market sale −10,000 $180.00 $1.8M Through by Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
Dec 15, 2025 Award Grant or award across 2 lots +70,203 — — Through by Trust
Dec 15, 2025 Tax Shares withheld for tax across 2 lots −55,791 $179.26 $10.0M Through by Trust
Dec 15, 2025 Exercise Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots +44,383 — — Through by Trust
Oct 15, 2025 Exercise Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots +18,655 — — Through by Trust
Oct 15, 2025 Tax Shares withheld for tax across 2 lots −9,271 $162.97 $1.5M Through by Trust
Oct 1, 2025 Sale Open-market sale across 3 lots, $165.16–$166.56 −150,000 $165.56 avg $24.8M Through by Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
Every issuer Cristiano Amon files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
QCOM QUALCOMM INC/DE This page President & CEO 197,568
2026-05-05		 — —
ADBE ADOBE INC. Director 1,822
2026-04-15		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

100 filings under CIK 0001559665 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q3 FY2026 Jul 29, 2026 Amon's argument was that the quarter's weakness is a mobile-industry problem Qualcomm is walking away from on purpose. Memory prices, wafer and packaging cost inflation and a 20% handset decline pushed gross margin below the company's own operating range, and his answer was double-digit price increases that arrive gradually plus an accelerated exit from Apple. Against that he set the diversification case with dates attached: a fiscal 2029 non-handset target raised to $40 billion from $22 billion, data center revenue starting in the December quarter from two hyperscaler custom-silicon programmes, a completed HBC Gen 1 tape-out with silicon demonstrations promised in the coming quarters, automotive raised to a $7 billion annualised exit rate, and a BMW win covering both ADAS and cockpit into the next decade. He was unusually direct about what he has not yet proved — that investors want proof points from a new entrant, and that customers want to see silicon before they commit. Read the call · 10 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

10 recorded appearances

2026

Podcast CNBC The Tech Download · Jun 16, 2026 · 50 min

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on AI devices, smart glasses and the future of smartphones

Amon told Arjun Kharpal that AI agents will displace apps as the center of the digital experience, that Qualcomm is working on roughly 40 new AI device designs including jewelry, camera earbuds and pins, and that apps will evolve rather than vanish.

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