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Tower Semiconductor

TSEM
42
Semiconductors · Technology
Price
$234.10
-3.82 (-1.61%)
Market Cap
$26.16B
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
42
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+3.5% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 109.8M (2021) → 113.6M (2025)

Tower Semiconductor Ltd., an independent semiconductor foundry, manufactures and markets analog intensive mixed-signal semiconductor devices in the United States, Japan, other Asia countries, and Europe. It provides various customizable process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, mixed signal/CMOS, RF CMOS, CMOS image sensor, integrated power management, and MEMS. The company also offers wafer fabrication services and design enablement platform for design cycle, as well as transfer optimizatio

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+13.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+44.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$86M/ year

Rising (+319% vs prior year)

5.5% of revenue

Below sector average (15%)

R&D investment increasing — building for the future

Insider Activity

0.0%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~9 months

$235M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Tower Semiconductor has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

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Quality

Gross Margin
26.7%
Modest — 26.7% gross margin
Operating Margin
16.1%
Healthy — 16.1% operating margin
ROCE
2.3%
Weak — 2.3% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+9.1%
Steady sales growth (9.1% YoY)
EPS YoY
+5.9%
Modest earnings growth (5.9% YoY)

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
183%
Turns 183% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
-2.9%
Burning cash (-2.9%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.06
Conservative — low debt load (0.06)
Interest Cover
100.00x
Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
118.8x
Expensive — P/E 118.8

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+50.1
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (118.8 → 68.7)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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