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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company LimitedTSMNYSE

Revenue keeps growing year over year. It last broke in FY2023, at -4.51%.

Today it reads 32.97%. 20-F filed Apr 18, 2024

Named tests met3 of 30
405.49 USD Market data. Sources for Share priceClose of Nov 12, 2026

Market data as of Nov 12, 2026. Ratios computed Nov 12, 2026.

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NYSE / Technology / Semiconductors

Reading

The evidence behind it

Overview

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

39.92x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at 21:00 UTC

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Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

1.6% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at 21:00 UTC

Read cash generation

Strength

Debt to equity

0.20 Computed

From FY2025 market data

Read strength

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.
Market capitalisation
2.10T USD Market data. Sources for Market capitalisation21:00 UTC
Newest accounts
FY2025, market data
Filed years
9, FY2016 to FY2024
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 39.92x at the close of 2026-11-12 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 between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Semiconductors industry (51 companies), 39.92x sits at the 38th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 31.27x to 97.03x.

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 14.3%.

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

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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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.

A computation on accounts filed with the SEC, not a recommendation and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results. Risk disclaimer.

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