Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing manufactures semiconductors using its manufacturing processes for its customers based on proprietary integrated circuit designs provided by them. Co. provides a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor, (which uses CMOS transistors in conjunction with bipolar junction transistor) mixed-signal and others. Co. has only one segment, the foundry segment, which engages in the manufacturing, sales, packaging, testing and computer-aided design of integrated circuits and the manufacturing of masks. We show 1 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our TSM shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute TSM market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing TSM market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing TSM's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of TSM versus a peer is one thing; comparing
TSM market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like TSM can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching TSM by allowing them to research the TSM market cap history. |
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