TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the principle producer of superior chips utilized in synthetic intelligence functions, is predicted to report a 30% rise in second-quarter revenue on Thursday due to hovering demand.
The world’s largest contract chipmaker, whose prospects embody Apple and Nvidia, has benefited from a surge in direction of AI that has pushed TSMC’s inventory – and the broader Taiwan market – to document highs. Final week, its American Depositary Receipts topped a trillion greenback market worth.
TSMC is ready to report a internet revenue of T$236.1 billion ($7.25 billion) for the quarter ended June 30, in line with a LSEG SmartEstimate drawn from 20 analysts. SmartEstimates give larger weighting to forecasts from analysts who’re extra persistently correct.
That estimate compares to the 2023 second-quarter internet revenue of T$181.8 billion.
TSMC final week reported a soar in second-quarter income, comfortably beating market expectations.
“I anticipate the third quarter outlook for all of their merchandise to be superb,” stated President Capital Administration Co Chairman Li Fang-kuo.
TSMC, at its quarterly earnings name at 0600 GMT on Thursday, will replace its outlook for the present quarter in addition to for the complete 12 months, together with its capital expenditure because it races to increase manufacturing.
TSMC is spending billions constructing new factories abroad, together with $65 billion on three crops within the U.S. state of Arizona, although it says most manufacturing will stay in Taiwan.
On its final earnings name in April, TSMC maintained its steering for capital spending this 12 months at $28 billion to $32 billion, in contrast with final 12 months’s $30.45 billion, and stated 70% to 80% of that might go in direction of superior applied sciences.
“TSMC might increase their capital spending,” stated KGI Securities Funding Advisory Co Chairman Chu Yen-min. “There are lots of optimistic elements which is able to assist their inventory value and help the broader market.”
The AI increase has helped drive up the value of shares in Asia’s most beneficial firm, with TSMC’s Taipei-listed inventory leaping 75% thus far this 12 months to historic highs, in contrast with a 33% achieve for the broader market.
TSMC, colloquially referred to the “sacred mountain defending the nation” for its crucial position in Taiwan’s export-dependent economic system, faces little competitors, although each Intel and Samsung try to problem that dominance.
($1 = 32.5480 Taiwan {dollars})
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Extra reporting by Roger Tung; Enhancing by Miral Fahmy)
