All week, the narrative around AI stocks was momentum, euphoria, and record highs.

Then Broadcom reported the best quarter in its history and got punished for it.

Revenue up 48%. AI chip sales up 143%. Free cash flow crossing $10 billion for the first time ever in a single quarter. The stock dropped 13% the next morning.

And honestly, I think that reaction tells you far more about where we are in this market than the earnings report itself.

Because when a company posts records across the board and the response is a double-digit selloff, you are no longer in a stock story. You are in an expectations story.

That is a different problem entirely. And it is one that does not get solved by the next good quarter.

Today in The Pragmatic Playbook, we are pulling apart exactly what happened to AVGO this week. The real numbers, the real risk buried in the earnings call, and what this moment means heading into the weekend.

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Broadcom delivered a quarter that most companies will never come close to matching.

Record revenue. Record free cash flow. AI chip growth of 143% year-over-year. Q3 guidance of $29.4 billion that would have sounded like fiction twelve months ago.

The market sent the stock down 13%.

The easy read is disappointment. The real read is something more instructive and a lot more uncomfortable. What happens when the expectations built into a stock price are so high that actual excellence lands as a letdown?

That is the question this week is forcing every AVGO investor to answer.

The Q2 FY2026 numbers are not ambiguous.

Total revenue hit a record $22.2 billion, up 48% year-over-year, per Broadcom's SEC 8-K filed June 3, 2026. Adjusted EBITDA came in at $15.2 billion, 69% of revenue, beating the company's own guidance.

AI semiconductor revenue reached $10.8 billion, up 143% year-over-year and above Broadcom's own internal forecast. CEO Hock Tan said on the call that demand for custom AI accelerators and networking is "simply insatiable."

Free cash flow cleared $10 billion in a single quarter for the first time in company history.

Not a milestone to mention in passing. A machine that printed $10 billion in cash in 90 days.

For Q3, management guided for $29.4 billion in total revenue, up 84% year-over-year. AI chip revenue is expected to hit $16 billion next quarter alone, a greater than 200% year-over-year surge. Full-year AI semiconductor guidance was reaffirmed at $56 billion, approximately 180% growth from fiscal 2025.

Looking to fiscal 2027, Tan reiterated the company's target on the call: more than $100 billion in AI semiconductor revenue.

That is the business. Because the business, by any honest measure, is performing at a level most semiconductor companies will never reach.

Here is where the selloff starts making sense.

Wall Street had been pricing AVGO at near-record levels heading into this report. The stock hit an all-time intraday high of $495 just 48 hours before earnings. The question every analyst was quietly asking was whether Hock Tan would raise fiscal 2027 guidance above $100 billion.

He did not. He reaffirmed it.

Not a raise. A restatement of the same number the market already had fully priced in.

Then came the second hit. Tan acknowledged on the earnings call that Google, Broadcom's largest custom chip customer, would likely begin drawing on multiple chip suppliers going forward. Macquarie downgraded the stock the same morning, cutting its price target from $513 to $437, citing Google's move to develop chips in-house through a partnership with MediaTek.

That is not a footnote. Google accounts for a significant share of Broadcom's custom AI accelerator revenue. If Google diversifies its supply chain even partially, the market dominance Broadcom currently holds does not disappear. It gets competed away, slowly, over several years.

The market priced that risk in immediately.

There is also a margin story buried in the numbers. Broadcom's gross margin came in at 77.1%, down 230 basis points year-over-year. Tan was direct about why: the rapid mix shift toward AI semiconductors is diluting overall gross margins because hardware carries lower margins than software. That is a structural tension, not a quarterly blip.

Because at 93x earnings, structural tensions are exactly what re-rate stocks downward.

Broadcom has six core custom chip customers: Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and two additional names disclosed on the call.

That list is impressive. It is also dangerously concentrated.

Tan revealed that bookings for AI semiconductors exceeded $30 billion against the $10.8 billion actually shipped in Q2. The pipeline looks enormous on paper. But pipeline is not revenue. And when the customer at the top of that list signals it wants to diversify its chip supply, the question investors start asking is how durable these relationships are when the leverage shifts.

Multi-year agreements exist. The Google TPU partnership was reaffirmed in April. Meta extended its chip collaboration through 2028 with a 3-gigawatt deployment plan. New customers Anthropic and OpenAI have signed multi-gigawatt compute agreements with delivery beginning in fiscal 2027.

The Macquarie argument does not require Broadcom to lose Google entirely. It only requires that market share erosion arrives faster than the $100 billion 2027 number already assumes.

That is the risk the stock price had never been asked to carry before this week.

AVGO closed Thursday June 4 at $414.33, down 13.5% on the day.

The stock hit its all-time high just 48 hours before earnings, then gave back roughly three months of gains in a single session.

The selloff tested the 50-day MA level intraday and held into the close.

200-day MA: approximately $343. Well below current price. The longer-term uptrend remains structurally intact.

Support: $400 to $415. The 50-day MA sits in this zone. A close below $400 on volume is a warning sign.

Resistance: $450 to $460. AVGO needs to reclaim that level with conviction before the selloff can be read as an overreaction rather than the start of a deeper reassessment.

The technical picture is clear. AVGO was priced for perfection, delivered perfection, and reset anyway. Because perfection was already the assumption baked into every dollar of that $495 high.

📊 Whether the $100 Billion 2027 Target Gets Raised

Broadcom reaffirmed, not raised, its $100 billion AI semiconductor target for fiscal 2027.

Every analyst on the call was circling that number. The math on fiscal 2026 alone — $56 billion in AI chip revenue — makes $100 billion in 2027 look conservative if current growth rates hold. Bookings already exceeded $30 billion in a single quarter against $10.8 billion shipped.

If Tan raises that number before the Q3 earnings call in September, this selloff will look like an entry point in hindsight. That is the single biggest catalyst remaining on the table for AVGO bulls.

🔍 How Serious the Google Insourcing Risk Actually Is

The Macquarie downgrade only holds if the Google story proves out over time.

Google's MediaTek partnership and in-house chip ambitions are real. But silicon development timelines slip constantly, and the April TPU agreement between Broadcom and Google covers multiple generations. That is not the language of a relationship being quietly wound down.

Watch for Alphabet investor communications in Q3 and Q4 that clarify how much chip volume is genuinely moving in-house and on what timeline. That is the data point that either validates or unwinds the Macquarie thesis.

⚠️ Gross Margin Direction Over the Next Two Quarters

The AI hardware mix shift compressing margins is structural, not cyclical.

Gross margin at 77.1% is not a crisis in isolation. But if it continues declining each quarter as AI semiconductor revenue grows faster than software, the bull case starts asking investors to accept a lower-quality earnings stream in exchange for higher volumes. At 93x earnings, that trade-off does not leave much room for error.

That is a number worth tracking every quarter from here.

🌍 What the Broader Semiconductor Sector Is Telling You

AVGO did not fall alone Thursday. MU dropped 7.2% and MRVL fell 6.6% in the same session.

When an industry-best earnings report triggers a sector-wide selloff, that is usually one of two things: extended profit-taking after a long run, or the early signal of a genuine valuation recalibration across all AI chip names. Not just Broadcom.

Because if the market decides that "beating estimates without exceeding expectations" is the new disappointment threshold, every AI name trading at 80x or 90x earnings faces exactly the same problem AVGO ran into this week.

Here is what I keep coming back to.

Broadcom shipped $10.8 billion in AI chip revenue in one quarter. Bookings hit over $30 billion in the same period. The company has multi-year visibility to 2028, long-term agreements with the most important AI builders on earth, and free cash flow that just cleared $10 billion in a single quarter for the first time in its history.

And the stock fell 13% because the CEO said "$100 billion in 2027" instead of "$120 billion."

That is the market we are in right now. Not the market where great businesses get rewarded. The market where great businesses at stretched valuations get punished for anything short of a re-rating catalyst.

And honestly? That should make every investor uncomfortable. Not just AVGO holders.

Because what happened to Broadcom this week is not a Broadcom story. It is a warning about the entire AI trade. When exceptional results require an upward guidance revision just to avoid a double-digit selloff, the risk embedded in these valuations is not small. It is enormous.

The business is not broken. The order book is real. The $100 billion target is not a fantasy.

But the stock price had been betting on a version of Broadcom that would keep exceeding extraordinary, every single quarter, without interruption or complication.

That version of any company does not exist. And the market just remembered that.

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This week, Broadcom had its best quarter ever and dropped 13%.

That outcome is going to sit with a lot of investors over this weekend, and it should.

Because what it is really asking is whether you know the difference between the company you own and the price you paid for it.

Those are two separate questions. Most investors treat them as one.

Broadcom the business is performing. Broadcom the stock was priced for a version of itself that had to keep accelerating forever, without a single miss, without a single complication.

The gap between price and reality is where most investing mistakes actually live.

Know which one you are holding before Monday.