Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) price closed higher on Monday, September 13, jumping 0.53% above its previous close. [>> 7 Top Picks for the Post-Pandemic Economy 3 Tiny Stocks Primed to Explode The world's greatest investor — Warren Buffett — has a simple formula for making big money in the markets. He buys up valuable assets when they are very cheap. For stock market investors that means buying up cheap small cap stocks like these with huge upside potential. We've set up an alert service to help smart investors take full advantage of the small cap stocks primed for big returns. Click here for full details and to join for free Sponsored Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, which has a market valuation of $582.39 billion. The company stock has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.78, while the dividend yield is 1.44%. It is understandable that investor optimism is growing ahead of the company’s current quarter results. Analysts tracking TSM have forecast the quarterly EPS to grow by 1.04 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit $4.05 for the year 2021 and up to $4.8 for 2022. In this case, analysts estimate an annual EPS growth of 19.50% for the year and 18.50% for the next year. On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $14.82 billion, with the likely lows of $14.69 billion and highs of $14.98 billion. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely rise by 22.10% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $56.51 billion for the company’s annual revenue in 2021. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow 24.20% above that which the company brought in 2021. Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with 1 upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give TSM a short term outlook of Hold on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 50% Buy. Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 37 analysts have assigned TSM a recommendation rating as follows: 4 rate it as a Hold; 25 advise Buy while 8 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSM) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Buy, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares. If we dive deeper into the stock’s performance we see the positive picture represented by the PEG ratio, currently standing at 3.54. The overview shows that TSM’s price is at present 5.55% off the SMA20 and 5.15% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 64.54, with weekly volatility standing at 1.35%. The indicator jumps to 1.70% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM)’s beta value is holding at 0.90, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 2.27. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $105.00-$204.00 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $147.57. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly 15.06% off the estimated low and -65.02% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price fall to $139.00, which is the median consensus price, and at that level TSM would be -12.44% from current price. Turning out attention to how the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: TSM’s stock is 0.53% on the day and 56.84% in the past 12 months, while NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) traded -1.45% in the last session and was positioned 82.10% up on its price 12 months ago. Another comparison is with Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) whose stock price was up 1.69% in the last trading session, and has flourished 51.85% over the past year. Also, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) showed up trend of 1.75% while its price kept floating at 42.25% over the past year. As for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, the P/E ratio stands at 32.01 lower than that of NVIDIA Corporation’s at 79.14 and Analog Devices Inc.’s 37.82. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has rallied 0.23% in last trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a positive session on the day with 0.76%. An analysis of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 8.36 million. [>> 7 Top Picks for the Post-Pandemic Economy <<] Current records show that the company has 5.19B in outstanding shares. The percentage share held by institutions stands at 17.20%. But the 13.37% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
