Denali Advisors LLC Has $2.11 Million Holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. $TSM

Denali Advisors LLC cut its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) by 50.2% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 7,542 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 7,613 shares during the period. Denali Advisors LLC’s holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing were worth $2,106,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in TSM. Childress Capital Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 145.3% in 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 period. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 9.4% during the third quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC now owns 101,876 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $28,470,000 after acquiring an additional 8,738 shares during the period. Hantz Financial Services Inc. lifted its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 28.6% in the 3rd quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 37,216 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $10,394,000 after acquiring an additional 8,284 shares in the last quarter. Hollencrest Capital Management boosted its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 125.3% in 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 during the period. Finally, Cherokee Insurance Co acquired a new position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing in the 2nd quarter worth $1,248,000. Institutional investors own 16.51% of the company’s stock.

Key Stories Impacting Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

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

• Positive Sentiment: TSMC reported strong consolidated net revenue for January 2026 (NT$401.26bn), +19.8% month‑over‑month and +36.8% year‑over‑year; the board also approved a cash dividend — a direct support to the stock’s Fundamentals and yield story. TSMC Reports Strong January Revenue Growth
• Positive Sentiment: Market reaction to the dividend pushed TSM higher in some sessions (reported trading up after the announcement), reflecting investor appetite for cash returns alongside growth. TSM Trading Up After Dividend Announcement
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts and commentary are reframing TSM as an AI‑era play: Seeking Alpha notes Nvidia has become TSM’s largest customer and AI chips now drive growth — implying stronger pricing power and stickier demand versus the handset era. That longer‑term structural story supports earnings visibility. Taiwan Semiconductor: Transition From An iPhone To An AI Era
• Positive Sentiment: Multiple market writeups and stock‑picks lists (e.g., The Motley Fool) continue to include TSM as a core chipmaker exposure for AI/data‑center buildouts, keeping investor interest in the name. 5 Best Artificial Intelligence Stocks to Buy in February
• Neutral Sentiment: Market rotation commentary (Chaikin/MarketBeat) favors AI infrastructure and chip‑chain suppliers (testing, packaging, power)—a positive backdrop for TSM but one that spreads gains across many suppliers rather than guaranteeing further outsized moves for TSM alone. Is AI Really Eating Software? A Wall Street Veteran Says No—Here’s Why
• Negative Sentiment: Some coverage highlights that major cloud providers (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) are signaling caution on near‑term AI capex, which could temper the pace of future orders and create short‑term volatility for chip suppliers. That risk helps explain profit‑taking despite good January sales. These 3 stocks are quietly soaring as Microsoft, Google slump on AI spending

Analysts Set New Price Targets

TSM has been the topic of several recent research reports. Argus raised Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 15th. Zacks Research upgraded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 3rd. Dbs Bank upgraded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to a “moderate buy” rating in a research note on Friday, January 23rd. Freedom Capital raised Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 15th. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, January 17th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have given a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $391.43.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Stock Performance

TSM opened at $366.47 on Monday. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $321.78 and its 200 day simple moving average is $289.08. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. has a 52-week low of $134.25 and a 52-week high of $380.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19, a quick ratio of 2.47 and a current ratio of 2.69. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.90 trillion, a PE ratio of 34.41, a PEG ratio of 1.03 and a beta of 1.31.

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

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Cuts Dividend

The business also recently disclosed 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. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 11th. This represents a $3.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.0%. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 23.57%.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Profile

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.