Bamco Inc. NY Purchases 28,740 Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. $TSM

Bamco Inc. NY lifted its position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE:TSMFree Report) by 4.7% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 634,652 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 28,740 shares during the period. Bamco Inc. NY’s holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing were worth $192,864,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors also recently made changes to their positions in TSM. Van ECK Associates Corp lifted its position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 11.1% during the fourth quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 17,464,962 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $5,307,428,000 after purchasing an additional 1,750,824 shares in the last quarter. Life Cycle Investment Partners Ltd bought a new position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing during the fourth quarter valued at about $495,163,000. SurgoCap Partners LP bought a new position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing during the third quarter valued at about $360,443,000. Capital Research Global Investors lifted its position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 66.3% during the fourth quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 3,215,353 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $976,821,000 after purchasing an additional 1,281,648 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Deutsche Bank AG raised its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 94.3% in the fourth quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 2,264,367 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $688,118,000 after acquiring an additional 1,098,727 shares during the period. 16.51% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Key Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing News

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

TSM has been the topic of several research reports. Zacks Research lowered shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, March 16th. Barclays lifted their price objective on shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing from $450.00 to $470.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 22nd. Needham & Company LLC lifted their price objective on shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing from $410.00 to $480.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Sunday, March 22nd. Finally, Weiss Ratings raised shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research report on Friday, March 20th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eleven have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $404.29.

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Insider Activity

In other Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing news, VP Bor-Zen Tien purchased 2,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 19th. The shares were bought at an average price of $69.91 per share, with a total value of $139,820.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president directly owned 11,051 shares in the company, valued at approximately $772,575.41. This trade represents a 22.10% increase in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, VP Lipen Yuan purchased 1,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 15th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of $75.26 per share, for a total transaction of $75,260.00. Following the transaction, the vice president owned 4,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $301,040. This trade represents a 33.33% increase in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this purchase provides additional information. Insiders have acquired a total of 4,496 shares of company stock valued at $304,667 over the last quarter. Company insiders own 1.11% of the company’s stock.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Stock Performance

NYSE TSM opened at $432.73 on Thursday. The company’s 50 day moving average is $402.64 and its 200-day moving average is $356.22. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. has a 12-month low of $206.20 and a 12-month high of $450.16. The company has a quick ratio of 2.31, a current ratio of 2.49 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16. The firm has a market cap of $2.24 trillion, a P/E ratio of 36.00, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.24 and a beta of 1.38.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSMGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 10th. The semiconductor company reported $3.11 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing had a net margin of 46.97% and a return on equity of 36.81%. The company had revenue of $30.65 billion for the quarter. Sell-side analysts predict that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. will post 15.3 earnings per share for the current year.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 8th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, September 16th will be given a $1.1136 dividend. This represents a $4.45 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.0%. This is an increase from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.95. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, September 16th. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s payout ratio is presently 25.12%.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Profile

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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.

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Institutional Ownership by Quarter for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM)

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