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Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

$TSEM·$25B·Semiconductors·Technology
$225.10-5.4%YTD+97.5%1Y+421.3%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $TSEM, 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 2026-07-17

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

Analog-and-mixed-signal foundry up 421% t12m — CEO just cashed out $14.4M into strength.

Tower Semiconductor is an independent semiconductor foundry specializing in analog and mixed-signal chips — RF, power management, silicon photonics, and image sensors. It's an under-the-radar AI-infrastructure play, particularly the silicon-photonics angle.

What the setup shows:

  • Growth is legitimately strong: Q1 revenue up 15.5% YoY to $414M, and the four-quarter growth stack is 6-15% — real acceleration.
  • Margins are decent for a specialty foundry: operating margin 14%, FCFy 1.2%.
  • The multiple is very rich: 119x trailing earnings and 71x FY27 consensus EPS of $3.34 — priced for the AI-infrastructure narrative to continue.
  • Insider action is a real caution: CEO Russell Ellwanger sold $14.4M on July 15 after option exercise — that's a single-day founder-level distribution of scale.
  • Position confirms the run: 70% of 52-week range, YTD +97%, t12m +421% — the tape has fully rerated.

The forward view: the August 4 Q2 print is the referee. A beat with continued growth plus specific silicon-photonics-partnership commentary (co-packaged optics for AI data centers) is what could sustain the multiple. What keeps it cooling: another 15% growth quarter without new customer-specific disclosure. What breaks it lower: another cluster of executive sales after the print, or a specific customer-concentration or China-export-restriction headline. What extends: a specific hyperscaler silicon-photonics contract.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bullish X read on TSEM as an overlooked AI-infrastructure print and foundry/OSAT positioning is directionally right. Our take agrees the story is real and adds that the CEO's $14.4M single-day sale is a specific counter-signal.

What to watch: August 4 Q2 earnings and any silicon-photonics-partnership commentary; another executive sale cluster after the print would confirm the cooling is signal.

On the calendar: 2026-08-04 — Q2 2026 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment5 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-14

Tower Semiconductor chatter frames TSEM Q2 2026 earnings in the coming weeks as one of the most overlooked AI-infrastructure earnings prints, with holders adding foundry and OSAT exposure into the current market pullback and IQE $60 puts collapsing to $37 on TSEM-linked news. TSEM was also added to new Gate CFD listings alongside Amkor, keeping the specialty-foundry AI thesis visible.

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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 — 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 $TSEM

Direct beneficiary — Independent specialty foundry manufacturing analog-intensive mixed-signal chips including RF CMOS, image sensors, and power management ICs; the business model is a direct conduit for the AI capex and HBM/compute demand cycle.

Top industry ETF

$SMHVanEck Semiconductor ETF
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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
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%
Q2 2025Aug 4, 2025$0.50$0.47+6.4%
Next earningsTue, Aug 4·consensus EPS $0.77

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

3-year forecast · up to 5 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$1.9B$1.8B – $1.9B$3.34$3.05 – $3.665
FY27$2.5B$2.4B – $2.7B$5.74$4.87 – $7.415
FY28$3.2B$3.1B – $3.3B$8.47$7.32 – $10.635

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.0.9×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.70%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.-5.8%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.+49.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 112.1M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.4% 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.β0.875-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

SellJul 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's AI Rally Is Built on a Light-Speed Betmarketbeat.com·2d agoTower Semiconductor Shares Rise 6% After Key Trading Signalbenzinga.com·3d agoStock Market Today, July 14: Growth Stocks Rally as Inflation Cools to 3.5%, Equaling 2020 Lowsfool.com·3d agoWhy Tower Semiconductor Stock Skyrocketed on Tuesdayfool.com·3d agoTower Semiconductor shares jump as company announces Japan expansion to boost silicon photonics capacityproactiveinvestors.com·3d ago

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