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Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

$TSEM·$27B·Semiconductors·Technology
$209.80+0.3%YTD+87.6%1Y+182.9%
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TSTSEM
$TSEMTower Semiconductor Ltd.
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The complete picture of $TSEM on X — how loud the conversation is right now, how it has trended over the last two weeks, and which way the crowd is leaning.

202X posts · last 7 days
Sep 28Oct 11
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How loud $TSEM's conversation on X is versus its own normal — 1× is typical, higher means busier. Right now it's about its usual level.

Bullish sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data5 posts analyzed · as of 2026-09-07

Tower Semi is 36% below 52-week high despite Q2 revenue $460M (+24% YoY) and a strong Q3 guide. SiPho story hasn't gone away — IQE/Quintessent/TSEM QDL group are making CPO real, and speculation ties TSEM to a $SIVE new-foundry capacity ramp. One H&S caution but hoping it fails.

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TickerTalks' own read on what's driving $TSEM — fundamentals, momentum, or an event — and whether it agrees with the X crowd.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-10-03

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Tower is the specialty-analog foundry quietly riding co-packaged optics and silicon-photonics — up 216% TTM with the SiPho story still building.

Tower Semiconductor is the specialty analog and mixed-signal foundry — the back-end for silicon photonics, high-frequency RF, and sensor processes. The stock has more than tripled TTM as the CPO/SiPho story went from thesis to visible P&L contribution.

  • Growth is accelerating: Q1 2026 revenue of $414M at +15.5% YoY after +13.7% in Q4 — the specialty-foundry mix shift toward silicon photonics is doing exactly what the bull case needs, with the Q3 guide confirmed strong.
  • EPS beats are consistent: last four prints at +16%, +15%, +16%, +1% — operating-margin expansion to 16% is tracking, and consensus has 2026 EPS at $2.76 against the $241 stock.
  • 119x trailing earnings is paying for the SiPho/CPO cycle: the TSEM-IQE-Quintessent QDL grouping and the speculated $SIVE new-foundry capacity ramp are the specific levers; without them, this is an expensive specialty foundry at 17x P/S.

A Nov 9 Q3 print with silicon-photonics mix commentary firming and FY26 guide tracking $1.7B restarts the move; a chip-cycle slowdown or a specific CPO customer-order delay compresses the 119x multiple fast.

Agrees with X sentimentX correctly flags the SiPho story (TSEM/IQE/Quintessent CPO grouping) and the speculated $SIVE foundry capacity ramp — real catalysts underlying the move. The crowd correctly identifies the stock as 36% below the 52-week high on a Q2 revenue of $460M (+24% YoY) and a strong Q3 guide, which is the H&S-caution-but-hoping-it-fails framing.

What to watch: Nov 9 Q3 earnings — silicon-photonics mix commentary, FY26 revenue tracking $1.7B, operating-margin trend above 16%, and any update on CPO customer-order pipeline. A chip-cycle slowdown or a specific CPO customer delay compresses the 119x multiple; a clean beat extends the move.

On the calendar: 2026-11-09 — Q3 2026 earnings

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What it does

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

Independent specialty foundry manufacturing analog-intensive mixed-signal chips including RF CMOS, image sensors, and power management ICs.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

Semiconductors · Technology

No material change from last week — hyperscaler AI capex remains the structural driver with Blackwell supply still packaging-constrained. Jensen Huang publicly named memory bandwidth as AI's next bottleneck, reinforcing HBM3e pricing power. AVGO custom ASIC demand broadens AI beneficiaries beyond NVDA's GPU allocation.

What this means for $TSEM

Direct beneficiary — Independent specialty foundry manufacturing analog-intensive mixed-signal chips including RF CMOS, image sensors, and power management ICs.; wafer fabrication capacity is the upstream constraint for all AI chip supply.

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Fundamentals & catalyst

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

Key ratios

P/E
118.8How 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
6.1%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
13.9%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
1.2%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
17.6Same 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
8.5%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
24.8%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
0.1Total 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 4, 2026$0.88$0.76+16.1%
Q1 2026May 13, 2026$0.65$0.56+15.5%
Q4 2025Feb 11, 2026$0.78$0.67+16.4%
Q3 2025Nov 10, 2025$0.55$0.54+1.3%
Next earningsMon, Nov 2·consensus EPS $1.07

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$413.6M+15.5%26.8%15.6%$0.57$353.6M
Q4 FY25$440.2M+13.7%26.7%16.1%$0.71$-75.3M
Q3 FY25$395.7M+6.8%23.5%12.8%$0.48$35.9M
Q2 FY25$372.1M+5.9%21.5%10.7%$0.42$11.9M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 7 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$2.0B$1.9B – $2.0B$3.89$3.69 – $4.077
FY27$2.8B$2.7B – $2.9B$6.82$6.27 – $7.867
FY28$3.6B$3.4B – $3.7B$10.49$10.15 – $10.955
FY29$4.9B$4.8B – $5.2B$14.39$13.83 – $15.342

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.1.3×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.56%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.-7.7%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.+3.9%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 112.5M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today2.3% 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.β0.895-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.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellSep 10Yoav CheloucheDirector232 sh$50KSellAug 11Ellwanger Russell CraigCEO104.2K sh$25.9MSellAug 10Ellwanger Russell CraigCEO77.3K sh$19.7MSellJul 13Ellwanger Russell CraigCEO67.0K sh$14.4M
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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 holdingsMay 293
AI summary

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) filed a Form 3 for Russell Craig Ellwanger, Chief Executive Officer, as a new Section 16 reporter as of May 29, 2026. Ellwanger beneficially owns 752,369 ordinary shares across five tranches of RSUs, including 66,964 vesting July 2026, 279,362 (partially vested, balance due July 2026-2027), 217,500 (145K vested, 72.5K vesting May 2027), 173,893 vesting 2026-2028, and 14,650 vesting July 2026. Standard initial Section 16 filing for a new reporting obligation at TSEM.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 293
AI summary

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) filed a Form 3 for Amir Elstein, Director, as a new Section 16 reporter as of May 29, 2026. Elstein beneficially owns 125,334 ordinary shares: 103,686 vested shares plus RSU tranches of 7,995 (5,330 vested, 2,665 vest July 2026), 7,380 (2,460 vested, 2,460 vest July 2026, 2,460 vest July 2027), and 6,273 (vesting 2026-2028). Standard initial Section 16 filing for a director-level reporting obligation at TSEM.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 293
AI summary

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) filed a Form 3 for Marco Racanelli, President, as a new Section 16 reporter as of May 29, 2026. Racanelli beneficially owns 121,311 ordinary shares across six RSU tranches: 13,286 vested shares, plus tranches vesting through March 2029 for various amounts totaling ~108K unvested RSUs. Standard initial Section 16 filing for a new reporting obligation at TSEM.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 293
AI summary

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) filed a Form 3 for Oren Shirazi, Chief Financial Officer, as a new Section 16 reporter as of May 29, 2026. Shirazi beneficially owns 82,570 ordinary shares: 1,494 vested shares plus RSU tranches vesting 2026 through 2029 totaling ~81K unvested RSUs across five grants. Standard initial Section 16 filing for a CFO-level reporting obligation at TSEM.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 293
AI summary

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) filed a Form 3 for Rafy Mor, Chief Operating Officer, as a new Section 16 reporter as of May 29, 2026. Mor beneficially owns 118,636 ordinary shares: 2,816 vested shares plus RSU tranches vesting from July 2026 through March 2029 totaling approximately 116K unvested RSUs across six grants. Standard initial Section 16 filing for a COO-level reporting obligation at TSEM.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 283
AI summary

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) filed a Form 3 for Sagi Ben Moshe, Director, as a new Section 16 reporter as of May 28, 2026. Ben Moshe beneficially owns 9,102 ordinary shares via two RSU tranches: 4,920 RSUs (2,460 vested, 2,460 vest July 2026) and 4,182 RSUs (2,090 vest July 2026, 2,092 vest July 2027). Standard initial Section 16 filing for a new director reporting obligation at TSEM.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 283
AI summary

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) filed a Form 3 for Kalman Kaufman, Director, as a new Section 16 reporter as of May 28, 2026. Kaufman beneficially owns approximately 9,769 ordinary shares: 667 vested shares plus RSU tranches of 4,920 (2,460 vested, 2,460 vest July 2026) and 4,182 (vesting July 2026-2027). Standard initial Section 16 filing for a director reporting obligation at TSEM.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 283
AI summary

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) filed a Form 3 for Yoav Chelouche, Director, as a new Section 16 reporter as of May 28, 2026. Chelouche beneficially owns approximately 33,152 ordinary shares: 24,050 vested shares plus RSU tranches of 4,920 (2,460 vested, 2,460 vest July 2026) and 4,182 (vesting July 2026-2027). Standard initial Section 16 filing for a director at TSEM.

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Recent news

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

Tower Semiconductor and Semtech Expand SiGe Partnership to Scale Power-Efficient Analog Connectivity for Data Centersglobenewswire.com·3d agoTower Semiconductor Announces Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Conference Callglobenewswire.com·3d agoTower Semiconductor Ltd (TSEM) Shares Surge 6.1% -- What GF Score of 78 Tells Investorsgurufocus.com·14d agoTower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:TSEM) Stock Now Rated “Moderate Buy” by Wall Street Brokeragesdefenseworld.net·18d agoChip Stocks Rise After Two-Day Skid. Tower Semiconductor Among Leaders.investors.com·20d ago

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