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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSM)

NYSE / Technology / Semiconductors

Share price

422.25 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

2.19T USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Newest accounts
FY2025, market data
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
9, FY2016 to FY2024
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

44.3% Computed

From FY2025 market data

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

40.84x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

1.6% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, by fiscal year

FY2016 Revenue: 947.94B TWDFY2016 Net income: 331.71B TWDFY2017 Revenue: 977.45B TWDFY2017 Net income: 345.00B TWDFY2018 Revenue: 1.03T TWDFY2018 Net income: 363.05B TWDFY2019 Revenue: 1.07T TWDFY2019 Net income: 353.95B TWDFY2020 Revenue: 1.34T TWDFY2020 Net income: 510.74B TWDFY2021 Revenue: 1.59T TWDFY2021 Net income: 592.36B TWDFY2022 Revenue: 2.26T TWDFY2022 Net income: 992.92B TWDFY2023 Revenue: 2.16T TWDFY2023 Net income: 851.74B TWDFY2024 Revenue: 2.89T TWDFY2024 Net income: 1.16T TWDFY2025 Revenue: 3.85T TWDFY2025 Net income: 1.74T TWD
Revenue Net income10 fiscal years; a year whose statement names no SEC filing is market data, and the table in Filings says which.
Named tests met
3 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 40.84x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Semiconductors industry (51 companies), 40.84x sits at the 34th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 34.97x to 99.83x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 44.3% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional" (20.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on the capital in the business well above the usual cost of that capital.

Today, against the Semiconductors industry (36 companies), 44.3% sits at the 88th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -0.3% to 13.9%.

Is it safe

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited held more cash than debt at the end of FY2025 (net cash of 1,695.5bn TWD), so net debt to EBITDA is a net cash position rather than a leverage reading.

Year by year against peers
Whether Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Semiconductors industry, year by year. (FY2020 to FY2025, 6 fiscal years of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited)
What could explain it
What in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited's filed statements could explain the movements. (4 readings drawn from the statement lines Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, and where in its filings. (2 questions for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (14 of sixteen figures read for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited)

These are TSM’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

Market dataCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are FY2025’s, from a statement that names no SEC filing: market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, accession n/a.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

Market dataComputed

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax44.3% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Return on equity32.1% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Return on capital employed, pre-tax30.3% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Return on assets21.9% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Gross margin59.9% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Operating margin50.8% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Net margin45.1% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
TSM 45.1%
AVGO 36.2%MU 63.8%NVDA 55.6%LRCX 31.3%ASML 29.4%
29.4%63.8%
Net margin: TSM against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

Market dataComputedCompany statement

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.20 ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Current ratio2.62 ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Quick ratio2.42 ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Interest coverage
Why n/a

The filing states no interest expense for this year, so coverage is not computed: with no interest bill there is nothing to cover.

n/a ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Altman Z-score19.74 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Net debt-2.00T ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Total assets 7.91TTotal liabilities 2.47TShareholders' equity 5.40TOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from a copy of its balance sheet that names no SEC filing (market data).

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: balance sheet position
Total assets7.91T Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named
Total liabilities2.47T Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named
Shareholders' equity5.40T Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named
Cash3.06T Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named
Total debt1.06T Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named
Net debt-2.00T
Current ratio2.62
Debt to equity0.20
  • Interest cover: FY2025: The filing states no interest expense for this year, so coverage is not computed: with no interest bill there is nothing to cover.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataComputed

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings40.84x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book13.11x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Price to sales18.41x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Enterprise value to EBIT35.37x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Enterprise value to EBITDA25.13x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Diluted earnings per share334.65 TWD Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Graham number86.55 USD ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value TSM on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: valuation
Share price422.25 USD
Market capitalisation2.19T USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA25.13x
Graham number86.55 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY2025334.65 TWD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

  1. Broadcom Inc. (AVGO)Market cap 1.64T USD
  2. Micron Technology, Inc. (MU)Market cap 1.05T USD
  3. NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)Market cap 5.24T USD
  4. Lam Research Corporation (LRCX)Market cap 347.20B USD
  5. ASML Holding N.V. (ASML)Market cap 638.80B USD

Same industry (Semiconductors) and size band (Mega, 200B and over), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

Market dataComputed

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield1.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Free cash flow1.10T TWD ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Free cash flow margin28.5% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Dividend yield0.7% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Payout ratio27.2% ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
FY2016 Free cash flow: 211.79B TWDFY2016 Net income: 331.71B TWDFY2017 Free cash flow: 254.73B TWDFY2017 Net income: 345.00B TWDFY2018 Free cash flow: 258.37B TWDFY2018 Net income: 363.05B TWDFY2019 Free cash flow: 154.72B TWDFY2019 Net income: 353.95B TWDFY2020 Free cash flow: 315.43B TWDFY2020 Net income: 510.74B TWDFY2021 Free cash flow: 272.96B TWDFY2021 Net income: 592.36B TWDFY2022 Free cash flow: 527.93B TWDFY2022 Net income: 992.92B TWDFY2023 Free cash flow: 292.15B TWDFY2023 Net income: 851.74B TWDFY2024 Free cash flow: 870.17B TWDFY2024 Net income: 1.16T TWDFY2025 Free cash flow: 1.10T TWDFY2025 Net income: 1.74T TWD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The figures on file

Computed from annual statements that name no SEC filing and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. So each figure below reads Market data, with the fiscal year it is for and the day it was supplied, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
40.84xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
13.11xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
35.37xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.6%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
44.3%FY2025n/a
0.7%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.20FY2025n/a
2.62FY2025n/a
18.41xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
19.74FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-3.15FY2025n/a
7/9FY2025n/a

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 9 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2024, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025. 9 read from the annual reports Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited filed with the SEC, each naming its filing; the rest from statements that name none, which are market data. Amounts in TWD, as reported.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20253.85T1.96T1.74T334.651.10T50.8%32.1%Market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026accession n/a
FY20242.89T1.32T1.16Tn/a870.17B45.7%27.3%20-F, Apr 17, 20250001193125-25-083423
FY20232.16T921.47B851.74Bn/a292.15B42.6%24.8%20-F, Apr 18, 20240001193125-24-099840
FY20222.26T1.12T992.92Bn/a527.93B49.5%34.2%20-F, Apr 20, 20230001193125-23-107214
FY20211.59T649.98B592.36Bn/a272.96B41.0%27.6%20-F, Apr 14, 20220001193125-22-104891
FY20201.34T566.78B510.74Bn/a315.43B42.3%27.8%20-F, Apr 16, 20210001193125-21-118512
FY20191.07T372.70B353.95Bn/a154.72B34.8%21.9%20-F, Apr 15, 20200001193125-20-107579
FY20181.03T383.62B363.05Bn/a258.37B37.2%21.9%20-F, Apr 17, 20190001193125-19-108390
FY2017977.45B385.56B345.00Bn/a254.73B39.5%23.1%20-F, Apr 19, 20180001193125-18-121866
FY2016947.94B377.96B331.71Bn/a211.79B39.9%24.4%20-F, Apr 19, 20180001193125-18-121866
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 16.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 20.2%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 20.1%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-3.15 ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 7, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Named tests met3 of 30 Computed
Beta1.41 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 24 not met, 3 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
High returns and growth; ROIC at or above WACC; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); High returns, low debt. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(5)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: We hold 1 profitable filed year in a row; the test needs 10.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: The filing states no interest expense for this year, so coverage is not computed: with no interest bill there is nothing to cover.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 5 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, PEG Ratio, Eps Growth 5Y. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 3 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
  • We hold 9 filed fiscal years rather than 10, so the run above is shorter than a full decade and is counted as what it is.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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ValueScreener · valuescreener.ai · Computed from accounts this company filed with the SEC for 9 of 10 fiscal years, read from EDGAR; the newest year is read from a statement that names no SEC filing, which is market data. Also from dated closing prices. Every figure on this page opens into its formula and its inputs. A figure that cannot show that trail says so.

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