Kirsten Spears

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer, Broadcom

Search every verified Kirsten Spears interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Kirsten Spears, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of Broadcom, reported the company's first quarter fiscal year 2026 financial results on March 4, 2026. She stated that consolidated revenue was a record $19.3 billion for the quarter, up 29% from a year ago, with gross margin of 77% and adjusted EBITDA of $13.1 billion, or 68% of revenue. Spears noted that Broadcom paid stockholders $3.1 billion in cash dividends and repurchased $7.88 billion (approximately 23 million shares) in Q1, returning $10.9 billion to shareholders, and that the board authorized an additional $10 billion for the share repurchase program through the end of calendar year 2026. In a prior earnings call on March 2, 2023, Spears reported consolidated revenue of $8.9 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, up 16% from a year ago, with gross margins of 74% of revenue. She also stated that the company ended that quarter with $12.6 billion of cash and $39.3 billion of gross debt, of which $1.1 billion was short term.