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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Micron Technology, Power Integrations, Cree and Maxim Integrated Products
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For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – January 18, 2021 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSM - Free Report) , Micron Technology, Inc. (MU - Free Report) , Power Integrations, Inc. (POWI - Free Report) , Cree, Inc. and Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. .
Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:
TSM and CapEx Point to Strength in Semis
Earnings season has kicked off for the technology sector and as always, Taiwan Semiconductor's numbers offer insight into other players.
The company reported solid revenue and earnings, which grew a respective 22.0% and 32.9% over last year.
Management attributed the strength to its leading edge 5 nm process (now 20% of total wafer revenue) that was driven by 5G smartphone launches and high performance computing (HPC) applications.
Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang also said, "Moving into first-quarter 2021, we expect our business to be supported by HPC-related demand, recovery in the automotive segment, and a milder smartphone seasonality than in recent years."
What also captured headlines was the 2021 capex budget of $25-28 billion. This is a 54% jump from the $17.2 billion it spent last year. The company claims its N5 (5nm) process offers up to 15% more performance (at the same power) then the existing N7 (7nm) process. So naturally, all the HPC players are trying to leverage it.
We had heard that Intel was in talks with TSM and Samsung over the outsourcing of its chip production, but TSM's capex guide seems to confirm that Intel will be doing this in a big way while it cleans house. It also looks like it will be one of the first to adopt processes at lower geometries.
AMD is also getting ready to trial run its 5nm Zen 4 this year. So if it gets into volume production by year-end, it too could be driving the capex at TSM. Intel really needs to save what market share it can from AMD, which is charging into the server/HPC market at its expense. And the rivalry between them is playing out nicely for TSM.
TSMC's other major customers include NVIDIA, which uses it for both its CPUs and GPUs and is big enough to make a difference. At CES this year, it launched the more affordable GeForce RTX 3060 CPU for desktops. It has also booked capacity for 5nm graphics cards at TSMC. NVIDIA is also in still competition with AMD in the GPU business, so this is another rivalry that TSM is feeding.
Then there's Huawei and Apple that are looking to grow their 5G smartphone businesses as well as Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors that also sell into autos (a market that TSM expects will pick up this year). Since Apple and Huawei actually sell the end product, a strong business outlook for them is also a positive indicator for their suppliers, such as Skyworks Solutions, Cirrus Logic and Jabil.
So TSM's results, guidance and management commentary look good for all these players.
And of course, there are the equipment makers ASML Holding, Applied Materials and Lam Research that will be the prime beneficiaries of capacity expansion at one of their leading customers. So it should be a good year for all three.
Semiconductor stocks worth picking up today include Zacks #1 (Strong Buy) ranked Micron Technology, Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) ranked Power Integrations, ASML Holding, Taiwan Semiconductor, Cree, NXPI, Maxim Integrated Products to name just a few. The whole segment is hot hot hot.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Micron Technology, Power Integrations, Cree and Maxim Integrated Products
For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – January 18, 2021 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSM - Free Report) , Micron Technology, Inc. (MU - Free Report) , Power Integrations, Inc. (POWI - Free Report) , Cree, Inc. and Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. .
Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:
TSM and CapEx Point to Strength in Semis
Earnings season has kicked off for the technology sector and as always, Taiwan Semiconductor's numbers offer insight into other players.
The company reported solid revenue and earnings, which grew a respective 22.0% and 32.9% over last year.
Management attributed the strength to its leading edge 5 nm process (now 20% of total wafer revenue) that was driven by 5G smartphone launches and high performance computing (HPC) applications.
Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang also said, "Moving into first-quarter 2021, we expect our business to be supported by HPC-related demand, recovery in the automotive segment, and a milder smartphone seasonality than in recent years."
What also captured headlines was the 2021 capex budget of $25-28 billion. This is a 54% jump from the $17.2 billion it spent last year. The company claims its N5 (5nm) process offers up to 15% more performance (at the same power) then the existing N7 (7nm) process. So naturally, all the HPC players are trying to leverage it.
We had heard that Intel was in talks with TSM and Samsung over the outsourcing of its chip production, but TSM's capex guide seems to confirm that Intel will be doing this in a big way while it cleans house. It also looks like it will be one of the first to adopt processes at lower geometries.
AMD is also getting ready to trial run its 5nm Zen 4 this year. So if it gets into volume production by year-end, it too could be driving the capex at TSM. Intel really needs to save what market share it can from AMD, which is charging into the server/HPC market at its expense. And the rivalry between them is playing out nicely for TSM.
TSMC's other major customers include NVIDIA, which uses it for both its CPUs and GPUs and is big enough to make a difference. At CES this year, it launched the more affordable GeForce RTX 3060 CPU for desktops. It has also booked capacity for 5nm graphics cards at TSMC. NVIDIA is also in still competition with AMD in the GPU business, so this is another rivalry that TSM is feeding.
Then there's Huawei and Apple that are looking to grow their 5G smartphone businesses as well as Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors that also sell into autos (a market that TSM expects will pick up this year). Since Apple and Huawei actually sell the end product, a strong business outlook for them is also a positive indicator for their suppliers, such as Skyworks Solutions, Cirrus Logic and Jabil.
So TSM's results, guidance and management commentary look good for all these players.
And of course, there are the equipment makers ASML Holding, Applied Materials and Lam Research that will be the prime beneficiaries of capacity expansion at one of their leading customers. So it should be a good year for all three.
Semiconductor stocks worth picking up today include Zacks #1 (Strong Buy) ranked Micron Technology, Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) ranked Power Integrations, ASML Holding, Taiwan Semiconductor, Cree, NXPI, Maxim Integrated Products to name just a few. The whole segment is hot hot hot.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
You know this company from its past glory days, but few would expect that it's poised for a monster turnaround. Fresh from a successful repositioning and flush with A-list celeb endorsements, it could rival or surpass other recent Zacks' Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in a little more than 9 months and Nvidia which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Inherent in any investment is the potential for loss. This material is being provided for informational purposes only and nothing herein constitutes investment, legal, accounting or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold a security. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. It should not be assumed that any investments in securities, companies, sectors or markets identified and described were or will be profitable. All information is current as of the date of herein and is subject to change without notice. Any views or opinions expressed may not reflect those of the firm as a whole. Zacks Investment Research does not engage in investment banking, market making or asset management activities of any securities. These returns are from hypothetical portfolios consisting of stocks with Zacks Rank = 1 that were rebalanced monthly with zero transaction costs. These are not the returns of actual portfolios of stocks. The S&P 500 is an unmanaged index. Visit https://www.zacks.com/performance for information about the performance numbers displayed in this press release.