We're taking a closer look at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today, as the chatter surrounding the stock has increased notably in the last few weeks. Today, its shares moved 0.6% compared to -1.0% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:
-
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, packages, tests, and sells integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices in Taiwan, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, the United States, and internationally. It provides complementary metal oxide silicon wafer fabrication processes to manufacture logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, and embedded memory semiconductors.
-
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has moved 13.6% over the last year compared to 21.3% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -7.7%
-
TSM has an average analyst rating of buy and is -12.04% away from its mean target price of $116.31 per share
-
Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $5.39
-
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 19.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
-
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $6.19 and its forward P/E ratio is 16.5
-
TSM has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 4.48, which shows the company is potentially overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
-
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 0.79 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
-
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 35.0 and an average P/B of 7.92
-
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has on average reported free cash flows of $30.14 Billion over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 19.2%