Compound Planning Inc. Acquires 3,591 Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. $TSM

Compound Planning Inc. increased its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) by 10.1% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 39,007 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 3,591 shares during the quarter. Compound Planning Inc.’s holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing were worth $10,894,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Childress Capital Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 145.3% during the third quarter. Childress Capital Advisors LLC now owns 3,192 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $891,000 after buying an additional 1,891 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC lifted its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 9.4% in the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC now owns 101,876 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $28,470,000 after acquiring an additional 8,738 shares in the last quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. boosted its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 28.6% during the 3rd quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 37,216 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $10,394,000 after purchasing an additional 8,284 shares during the last quarter. Hollencrest Capital Management increased its holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 125.3% during the 3rd quarter. Hollencrest Capital Management now owns 5,216 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,457,000 after purchasing an additional 2,901 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Cherokee Insurance Co bought a new stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $1,248,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 16.51% of the company’s stock.

Key Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing News

Here are the key news stories impacting Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Huge institutional vote of confidence — Point72 disclosed roughly $870M of new TSM exposure, signaling large‑scale buy interest from an active hedge fund and supporting near‑term demand for the shares. Billionaire fund manager drops $2.8 billion on Big Tech stocks
• Positive Sentiment: AI demand thesis remains intact — multiple analysts and trade pieces (Zacks, Yahoo) list TSMC among AI leaders that are outpacing peers as data‑center orders and margin recovery drive revenue and earnings upside. This underpins long‑term revenue visibility. 3 AI Stocks Outpacing NVIDIA in 2026
• Positive Sentiment: Structural supply‑chain importance — MarketBeat/Market articles emphasize TSMC as the linchpin of the nanotech/lithography stack (ASML, Applied Materials, Entegris), reinforcing TSMC’s pricing power and capex moat as AI workloads expand. The Supply Chain Quietly Powering the AI Boom—And 4 Ways to Play It
• Positive Sentiment: Options and technical flows point to continued upside — options‑market analysis and commentaries suggest bulls remain willing to pay for upside, helping limit downside even amid valuation debates. Taiwan Semi Stock Is Soaring Above AI Bubble Fears
• Neutral Sentiment: Wall‑Street analyst ratings mixed in usefulness — coverage pieces note analysts are broadly bullish on TSMC, but warn average broker ratings can be overstated; useful for sentiment but not definitive for timing. Is It Worth Investing in TSMC (TSM) Based on Wall Street’s Bullish Views?
• Neutral Sentiment: Nvidia results and the chip cycle still matter — upcoming NVDA earnings and broader data‑center demand prints could swing sentiment for TSMC either way; they’re catalysts but not company‑specific news. Dow Jones Futures Fall After Trump Hikes Global Tariff To 15%
• Negative Sentiment: Trade/tariff shock creates near‑term downside risk — headlines of a 15% global tariff increase are weighing on broad markets and could pressure semiconductor demand, capex plans or supply‑chain costs if implemented, creating an overhang on TSMC despite its fundamentals. How Will Dow Jones Futures Open After Trump Hikes Global Tariff To 15%?

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities analysts have weighed in on the company. Sanford C. Bernstein restated an “outperform” rating on shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing in a research note on Friday, January 2nd. Barclays increased their target price on shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing from $380.00 to $450.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, January 16th. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating on shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing in a report on Monday, January 5th. Dbs Bank raised shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to a “moderate buy” rating in a research report on Friday, January 23rd. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have issued a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $391.43.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Trading Down 0.2%

Shares of TSM stock opened at $369.97 on Tuesday. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. has a 12-month low of $134.25 and a 12-month high of $380.00. The company has a quick ratio of 2.47, a current ratio of 2.69 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19. The company has a 50 day moving average of $329.67 and a 200-day moving average of $294.52. The firm has a market cap of $1.92 trillion, a P/E ratio of 34.74, a PEG ratio of 1.03 and a beta of 1.31.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) last released its earnings results on Friday, November 14th. The semiconductor company reported $14.32 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing had a return on equity of 36.18% and a net margin of 45.13%.The business had revenue of $32.50 billion during the quarter. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. will post 9.2 earnings per share for the current year.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, July 9th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 11th will be given a dividend of $0.9503 per share. This represents a $3.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.0%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 11th. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 23.57%.

About Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is a leading pure-play semiconductor foundry that provides wafer fabrication and related services to the global semiconductor industry. Founded in 1987 by Morris Chang and headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, TSMC manufactures integrated circuits on behalf of fabless and integrated device manufacturers, offering contract chip production across a broad set of technologies and products.

TSMC’s service offering covers logic and mixed-signal process technologies, specialty processes for radio-frequency, power management and embedded memory, and advanced nodes used in mobile, high-performance computing and AI applications.