Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
TSM · Technology · FY filings · Not rated ·
Not rated
We don't have enough comparable filing data to score at least four of the five filters for TSM, so we don't publish a composite. Missing: businessTrend, pricingPower, returnsOnCapital, balanceSheet, capitalDiscipline. No composite: 5 components abstained (businessTrend: Fewer than two aligned fiscal years of revenue and diluted EPS are available; the filing history does not contain a measurable trend.; pricingPower: Not enough years of gross-margin data to score pricing power.; returnsOnCapital: Not enough years of ROIC data to score returns on capital.; balanceSheet: No balance-sheet data available to score safety.; capitalDiscipline: Not enough owner-earnings history to score capital discipline.).
Fundamentals
There's no normalized fundamentals series for TSM yet — it appears once ingest has processed its filings.
Moat Score history
No composite readings yet — TSM’s filings don’t give the engine enough comparable data to score, and we log that honestly instead of guessing a number.
Tier changesSame-methodology crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
- Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)tomoat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0tomoat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0tomoat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record can’t be backfilled, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Track record
How Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored TSM on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The indexed price path isn't available for this company yet; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the reconstructed history shown, TSM did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.
Technology context
Not ranked — TSM doesn’t have enough comparable filing data for a composite score, so we don’t place it on the board.
Technology leaders by Moat Score
- #1FTNT FORTINET, INC.100.0 out of 100, Wide moatWide moat
- #2META Meta Platforms, Inc.98.4 out of 100, Wide moatWide moat
- #3IBEX IBEX LIMITED98.0 out of 100, Wide moatWide moat
Common questions about TSM
- Does Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited have an economic moat?
- We don't publish a Moat Score for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSM): its SEC filings don't provide enough comparable data to score at least four of the five filters, and the Index records each gap rather than a guessed number. Missing inputs: revenue and EPS trend, pricing power, returns on capital, balance-sheet safety, capital discipline.
- How has TSM's Moat Score changed over time?
- The record logs 15 readings since Jul 17, 2026, none with a composite — TSM hasn't had enough comparable filing data to score. No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.