← BackTOWER SEMICONDUCTOR LTD · SemiconductorsTSEM
Low riskNext report: Not enough history
The short versionA profitable company with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Little debt
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions cut 9% from their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (235 bought, 215 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater), Cathie Wood (ARK Invest)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$178.73+6.6% that day
- Company value
- $20.1B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 102.1x
- You pay about $102 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 13.4x
- Company value is 13.4 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 1%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 1%
- Debt as a share of company value
From TSEM's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Jun '24$351.2M+13% vs a year earlier
Jun '13Tap a barJun '24
Last 12 months: $1.5B, up 15% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 4.4% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.7.9%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.05x equity
- PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.14.1%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.10 of 10 years
- MissFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.-$48.9M
- MissShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.+2.6% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.23.2%
- Revenue
- $1.6B
- +9.1% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +4.4%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $133.4M
- 0.05x equity
- Current ratio
- 6.48x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jun 30, 2024- Revenue
- $351.2M
- -1.7% YoY
- EPS
- $0.48
- vs $0.46
- Op. margin
- 15.7%
- +1.6 pts
- Gross margin
- 24.8%
- +0.6 pts
- Share count
- +0.7%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
0/ 100
- This week
- 1
- Normal week
- 0.9
- vs normal
- 1.1x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady-9.0%Institutions cut 9.0% from their holdings. 235 bought, 215 sold. 2 quarters of net selling in a row.
Shares held by institutions63.3M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
+0.8%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.1x · $133.4M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
113MNext reportNot enough history
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.