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TSM

LONGINSIDER BUYINSIDER SELLCONGRESS BUY

TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC

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🗄 Viewing archived Q1 2026 data — frozen, no longer refreshed.

Funds
8
Score
10.70
vs SPY
+6.8%
Stock return (since Q-end)
+26.4%
SPY return (since Q-end)
+19.7%
Current price
$426.35
Days to cover (short int.)
2.0d-0.5%
as of 2026-07-31

News Summary

Positive

TSMC delivered exceptional earnings beats in Q1 and Q2 2026 with massive revenue growth (35-37% YoY), record-high gross margins (66-68%), and dramatically raised full-year guidance to 40%+ revenue growth. However, significant margin headwinds are emerging: management flagged 3-4% dilution from 2nm ramp and 2-3% from overseas fab expansion, with Q3 gross margin expected to decline, and capex nearly doubled to $60-64B annually, straining cash generation.

Red flags

  • Gross margin compression expected in Q3 2026 and beyond due to 2nm technology ramp (3-4% dilution) and international fab buildout (2-3% dilution)
  • Capex guidance increased 16-23% to $60-64B annually—near-doubling over prior guidance—creating significant cash deployment risk and extended payback periods
  • Overseas fab execution risk: TSMC ramping Arizona, Japan, and Europe simultaneously while managing margin dilution; any delays or overruns could impair returns
  • Q3 gross margin guided at 65-67%, down from Q2's 67.7%, signaling the margin compression cycle has begun

Funds Buying (8)

FundManagerShares Held∆ SharesPosition Value% of FundQoQStatus
Coatue ManagementPhilippe Laffont9.3M+654K$3.1B10.8%+8%Existing
Tiger GlobalChase Coleman5.6M+1.8M$1.9B8.2%+49%Existing
Point72Steve Cohen1.9M+1.9M$628M1.1%NEW
Altimeter CapitalBrad Gerstner1.4M+146K$462M8.1%+12%Existing
Appaloosa LPDavid Tepper1.3M+198K$449M7.6%+17%Existing
Soros Fund ManagementSoros Family Office522K+172K$177M2.4%+49%Existing
D1 CapitalDan Sundheim329K+329K$111M1.0%NEW
Situational Awareness LPLeopold Aschenbrenner22K+22K$8M0.2%NEW

Shares Held and Position Value reflect total quarter-end holdings. ∆ Shares is the change from the prior quarter. % of Fund is the position's share of the fund's reported equity portfolio — it drives the size weighting in the conviction score.

Portfolio Context

Where TSM ranks in each buying fund's book, and the positions immediately around it. What a holding sits next to often says more about the thesis than the position size does.

Coatue Management

position #1 of this fund's book

  1. 1TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC$3,137M
  2. 2GE VERNOVA INC$2,245M
  3. 3LAM RESEARCH CORP$2,146M
  4. 4APPLIED MATLS INC$1,794M
Tiger Global

position #4 of this fund's book

  1. 1ALPHABET INC$3,057M
  2. 2NVIDIA CORPORATION$2,095M
  3. 3AMAZON COM INC$2,083M
  4. 4TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC$1,881M
  5. 5META PLATFORMS INC$1,766M
  6. 6SEA LTD$1,277M
  7. 7BROADCOM INC$1,110M
Altimeter Capital

position #4 of this fund's book

  1. 1NVIDIA CORPORATION$1,628M
  2. 2META PLATFORMS INC$1,118M
  3. 3UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC$573M
  4. 4TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MFG LTD$462M
  5. 5MICROSOFT CORP$438M
  6. 6AMAZON COM INC$435M
  7. 7COREWEAVE INC$349M
Appaloosa LP

position #5 of this fund's book

  1. 2MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC$563M
  2. 3ALPHABET INC$497M
  3. 4UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC$456M
  4. 5TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC$449M
  5. 6ALIBABA GROUP HLDG LTD$435M
  6. 7VISTRA CORP$304M
  7. 8ISHARES INC$295M
Soros Fund Management

position #7 of this fund's book

  1. 4NVIDIA CORPORATION$187M
  2. 5BILL HOLDINGS INC$187M
  3. 6PG&E CORP$182M
  4. 7TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC$177M
  5. 8ALPHABET INC$165M
  6. 9JAZZ INVESTMENTS I LTD$158M
  7. 10RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE INC$154M
Point72

position #8 of this fund's book

  1. 5CREDO TECHNOLOGY GROUP HOLDI$702M
  2. 6BROADCOM INC$701M
  3. 7TERADYNE INC$677M
  4. 8TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC$628M
  5. 9APPLIED MATLS INC$587M
  6. 10EQUINIX INC$524M
  7. 11META PLATFORMS INC$520M
Situational Awareness LP

position #21 of this fund's book

  1. 18PROPETRO HLDG CORP$13M
  2. 19VANECK ETF TRUST$10M
  3. 20INTEL CORP$9M
  4. 21TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC$8M
  5. 22HIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LT$6M
  6. 23ASML HLDG NV N Y REGISTRY$6M
  7. 24MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC$6M
D1 Capital

position #35 of this fund's book

  1. 32SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO$152M
  2. 33ALPHABET INC$135M
  3. 34APOLLO GLOBAL MGMT INC$129M
  4. 35TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC$111M
  5. 36LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT IN$103M
  6. 37ANALOG DEVICES INC$93M
  7. 38AFFIRM HLDGS INC$89M

Values are quarter-end position sizes. Shown only for funds where TSM ranks inside their 40 largest equity positions — below that, neighbouring names carry no signal. Adjacency is an inference about a fund's reasoning, not a disclosure of it.

Signal History

QuarterDirectionFundsScorevs SPY
Q2 2026LONG57.33-15.0%
Q1 2026LONG810.70+6.8%

Same issuer appearing in consecutive quarters — persistent institutional conviction. Returns are frozen at each archived quarter's last refresh.

Insider Activity

NameTitleTypeSharesPriceValueFiledSrc
Lee Chun-HsienSVPBUY54$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Zhang Kevin XiaoqiangSVP and Deputy Co-COOBUY63$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Yuan LipenVPBUY42$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Wu Yi-HuangVPBUY41$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Yoo Chue-SanVPBUY51$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Mii Yuh-JierEVP and Co-COOBUY72$73.31$0.01M2026-08-07
Wang Ying-LangSVPBUY55$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Wei Che-ChiaChairman and CEOBUY152$73.31$0.01M2026-08-07
Wu Shien-YangSVPBUY57$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY42$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY7$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Lin Chris Horng-DarVP and CIOBUY49$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Lu Lee-ChungVPBUY52$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Lin Shyue-ShyhVPBUY47$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Yeap Choh FeiSVPBUY57$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Lu Chin-ShengVPBUY39$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Jang Syun-MingVPBUY50$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Hsu Kuo-ChinVPBUY54$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Huang Jen-ChauSVP and CFOBUY29$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Hwang Yuan-KoVPBUY40$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Ku Yao-ChingVPBUY47$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
He JunVPBUY46$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Chuang Tzu-SouVPBUY47$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Hou Yung-ChinSVP and Deputy Co-COOBUY63$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Chuang JuipingVPBUY49$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Fang Shu-HuaSVP and GCBUY57$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Chang Tzonz-ShengSVPBUY54$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Chen Chih-HoControllerBUY33$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Chen Pei-HungVPBUY46$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Cao MinVPBUY55$73.31$0.00M2026-08-07
Chin Yung-PeiEVP and Co-COOBUY72$73.31$0.01M2026-08-07
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY1K$73.06$0.07M2026-08-03
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY10$390.00$0.00M2026-07-28
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY5$390.00$0.00M2026-07-28
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY1K$67.97$0.07M2026-07-28
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY1K$74.44$0.07M2026-07-21
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY1K$74.13$0.07M2026-07-21
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY1K$73.98$0.07M2026-07-21
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY1K$74.75$0.07M2026-07-21
Lin Shyue-ShyhVPBUY1K$74.13$0.07M2026-07-21
Lin Shyue-ShyhVPBUY1K$72.65$0.07M2026-07-20
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY10$405.00$0.00M2026-07-20
Lin Shyue-ShyhVPBUY1K$72.10$0.07M2026-07-19
Lin Shyue-ShyhVPBUY1K$71.32$0.07M2026-07-19
Lin Shyue-ShyhVPBUY1K$71.94$0.07M2026-07-19
Chen Chih-HoControllerSELL50$75.22$0.00M2026-07-14
Chen Chih-HoControllerBUY50$74.60$0.00M2026-07-13
Wang Ying-LangSVPBUY53$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Jang Syun-MingVPBUY47$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Wu Shien-YangSVPBUY54$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Ku Yao-ChingVPBUY46$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Chuang JuipingVPBUY47$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Lin Chris Horng-DarVP and CIOBUY46$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Chang Tzonz-ShengSVPBUY52$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Wei Che-ChiaChairman and CEOBUY146$76.62$0.01M2026-07-07
Lee Chun-HsienSVPBUY50$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Chen Pei-HungVPBUY44$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY40$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Tien Bor-ZenVPBUY6$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07
Wu Yi-HuangVPBUY39$76.62$0.00M2026-07-07

Congressional Trading

MemberChamberStateTypeAmount RangeTransaction DateFiledSrc
Cleo FieldshouseLA06BUY$1,001 - $15,0002026-07-102026-07-30
Richard W. AllenhouseGA12BUY$1,001 - $15,0002026-05-082026-06-16

Periodic Transaction Reports filed under the STOCK Act. Amounts are disclosed as ranges, not exact dollar figures.