Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing manufactures semiconductors using its manufacturing processes for its customers based on proprietary integrated circuit designs provided by them. Co. provides a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor, (which uses CMOS transistors in conjunction with bipolar junction transistor) mixed-signal and others. Co. has only one segment, the foundry segment, which engages in the manufacturing, sales, packaging, testing and computer-aided design of integrated circuits and the manufacturing of masks. The TSM YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the TSM YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether TSM YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the TSM YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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