This article presents an overview of the 5 Best Tech Stocks for the Next 5 Years. For a detailed overview of such stocks, read our article, 10 Best Tech Stocks for the Next 5 Years.
5. Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM)
Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 107
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) ranks fifth in our list of the best tech stocks to buy for the next five years. UBS believes Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) has a “world-leading dominance in the semiconductor foundry industry.” UBS also thinks Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) can tap into IoT and AI.
Over the past one year Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) shares have gained about 20%. As of the end of the third quarter of 2023, 107 hedge funds out of the 910 funds tracked by Insider Monkey had stakes in Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM). The most notable hedge fund stakeholder of Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) was Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management which owns a $2.6 billion stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM).
Wedgewood Partners stated the following regarding Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) in its fourth quarter 2023 investor letter:
“Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) was also a top contributor to performance. The Company began shipping chips that were fabricated using its industry-leading “N3″ node. Nearly all of the Company’s N3 capacity has been filled by high-end chip designers such as Apple, NVIDIA and even Intel. As high-performance computing, particularly related to AI in both data centers and edge devices, continues to build momentum, the Company will be a key supplier for many years to come. Despite the boom-and-bust cycle in demand seen for many semiconductors during Covid-19 and post-Covid-19, the Company should be able to post solid double-digit growth next year as inventories and end-market demand across most of its technology nodes get back to normal levels. The Company also maintains dominant market share in leading-edge nodes, which is in short supply, given the difficulties its competitors have had in scaling up EUV-based manufacturing. The Company has been able to secure higher prices because of this and can still generate excellent returns on elevated capital expenditures necessary for this scarce capacity. The Company is arguably one of a handful of the world’s most important and largest companies, but because the Company’s shares trade as an ADR (American Depositary Receipt) the shares are not part of the major stock market indices in the U.S. As a result, the shares are woefully under owned by U.S. investors (institutional and individual), particularly for a company that regularly generates cash flow return on invested capital in excess of +40%. Therefore, our growing position in these shares represent a significantly relatively overweight portfolio position versus our peers and benchmarks. We could not be more pleased by this anachronistic institutional imperative.”
