Tower Semiconductor

TSEM

Semiconductors · Technology

Price

$234.10

-3.82 (-1.61%)

Market Cap

$26.16B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

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

Winston Score History

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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

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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

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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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