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ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES Inc.

$IMOS·$1.8B·Semiconductors·Technology
$55.45-3.6%YTD+73.0%1Y+246.2%
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IMIMOS
$IMOSChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES Inc.
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $IMOS, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersCooling offAI verdict · as of 2026-08-21

Catching its breath after a run — could pick back up or fade from here.

Taiwan back-end chip assembly-and-test up 3.5x on the year — the semi-cycle worked, the tape is digesting.

ChipMOS Technologies is a Taiwan-based semiconductor back-end assembly-and-test provider — it packages and tests memory and driver ICs for smartphones, displays, and increasingly AI/HPC end markets. It's a picks-and-shovels beneficiary of the same memory-and-AI wave that's lifting Samsung and SK Hynix.

  • Q2 revenue printed a record high since 2014 and Q1 revenue grew 25% year-on-year — real re-acceleration off the 2024 base, with the Q2 print landing $0.80 EPS vs $0.639 consensus (25% beat).
  • Stock is +73% year-to-date and +257% over 12 months, sitting at the 62nd percentile of the 52-week range and 10% below the 50-day trend — a huge multi-quarter run that has cooled off the highs while the fundamentals kept improving.
  • Trades at ~82x trailing earnings but analyst 2027 EPS estimate of $127 works out to ~0.43x forward, likely a data mismatch (Taiwan share vs ADR pricing); the more usable metric is 11x EV/EBITDA, which is normal for an OSAT (outsourced assembly & test) name.
  • Recently received a Seeking Alpha buy rating upgrade post-Q2 — sell-side coverage is thin, so a single upgrade shifted incremental buyer flow.

What restarts the move upward is Nov 10 Q3 landing another record-high revenue print with driver-IC and memory-package mix growing in absolute terms — both together back the memory-cycle-plus-AI thesis in ChipMOS's specific book. What sustains the cooling is a memory-price rollover or a Taiwan-macro shock; OSAT names are second-derivative memory plays, and the second derivative moves fast in both directions.

What to watch: Nov 10 Q3 earnings — record-quarterly-revenue extension and mix disclosure (memory vs driver IC). Watch DRAM spot prices and Samsung/SK Hynix commentary as the second-derivative read on ChipMOS's book.

On the calendar: 2026-11-10 — Q3 earnings

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Taiwan-based chip assembly and test (OSAT) provider serving memory and display driver IC manufacturers.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Semiconductors sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $IMOS.

Semiconductors · Technology

No material change from last week — structural AI capex engine unchanged: hyperscaler Blackwell allocation stays tight through 2H26 and HBM3e pricing holds as LLM context-window expansion drives 5-8x per-server memory demand uplift.

What this means for $IMOS

Partial — Taiwan-based chip assembly and test (OSAT) provider serving memory and display driver IC manufacturers; partial earnings exposure to semiconductors demand dynamics through its product portfolio.

Top industry ETF

$SMHVanEck Semiconductor ETF
+56.0%YTD
+85.1%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
82.3How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
2.6%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
5.1%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-0.4%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
2.7Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
3.5%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
12.0%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.6Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 11, 2026$0.80$0.64+25.2%
Q1 2026May 12, 2026$0.46$0.50-7.3%
Q4 2025Feb 24, 2026$0.46$0.34+37.3%
Q3 2025Nov 11, 2025$0.33$0.11+209.3%
Next earningsTue, Nov 10·consensus EPS $0.81

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$6.9B+25.4%13.8%7.5%$14.80$-1.1B
Q4 FY25$6.7B+23.2%14.3%9.6%$14.20$973.3M
Q3 FY25$6.1B+1.2%12.4%6.0%$10.00$423.2M
Q2 FY25$5.7B+3093.7%6.6%0.4%$-15.00$-578.3M

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 2 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$30.9B$30.7B – $31.1B$86.62$85.83 – $87.411
FY27$34.9B$34.5B – $35.4B$127.30$126.14 – $128.472
FY28$38.7B$38.5B – $39.0B$146.55$145.21 – $147.891

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.4×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.64%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-6.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+22.6%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 27.8M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.1% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.355-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 163
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 133
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 133
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 133
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 133
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 133
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 133
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 133
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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Chipmos Technologies (NASDAQ:IMOS) Shares Cross Above Two Hundred Day Moving Average – What’s Next?defenseworld.net·3d agoCritical Analysis: Chipmos Technologies (NASDAQ:IMOS) and Cohu (NASDAQ:COHU)defenseworld.net·9d agoWhy ChipMOS Is A Buy After Posting Second-Quarter Results (Rating Upgrade)seekingalpha.com·17d agoChipmos Technologies Q2 Earnings Call Highlightsmarketbeat.com·17d agoChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES Inc (IMOS) Shares Surge 12.6% -- What GF Score of 58 Tells Investorsgurufocus.com·18d ago

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