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NASDAQ · US · Semiconductors

GFS GlobalFoundries

Specialty-node foundry incl. silicon photonics

Tight but sold off Its supply chain is tightening but the stock is below its 50-day average — price and fundamentals disagree. (automatic: supply-chain trend + price vs 50-day average)
Last close (delayed) · 2026-10-26
$45.60
+2.73% today
1W
−1.1%
1M
−6.9%
3M
−6.7%
YTD
+31.1%
1Y
+29.6%
Off 52w high
−49.1%
Next earnings (est.): 2026-11-04
Market cap$24.74B
P/E (trailing)34.7Forward 16.9
EV / sales3.3×EV/EBITDA 11.7×
Revenue (TTM)$6.94BGrowth 5.8% y/y
Margins27.1%gross · op 9.7%
Free cash flow$758MCash $2.36B · debt $1.68B
Analyst target$74.68+63.8% upside · 22 analysts · buy
Riskβ 1.76Short 13.6% of float · yield 1.11%

Fundamentals from public market data, refreshed daily (2026-10-24 02:59 UTC). Figures in reporting currency.

GFS · price with what management and the data said

Supply tighteningBeat / raiseMiss / cutData releaseEasing Hover a numbered marker for details · dashed lines = 50- and 200-day averages

Timeline: management commentary, data & earnings

8 events
  1. 8
    2026-08-05EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.46 vs 0.43 expected (+6.5% surprise).

  2. 7
    2026-05-05EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.4 vs 0.35 expected (+14.0% surprise).

  3. 6
    2026-02-11EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.55 vs 0.47 expected (+16.2% surprise).

  4. 5
    2025-11-12EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.41 vs 0.39 expected (+5.4% surprise).

  5. 4
    2025-08-05EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.42 vs 0.36 expected (+16.9% surprise).

  6. 3
    2025-05-06EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.34 vs 0.29 expected (+17.8% surprise).

  7. 2
    2025-02-11EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.46 vs 0.45 expected (+1.8% surprise).

  8. 1
    2024-11-05EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.41 vs 0.33 expected (+23.7% surprise).

Earnings history

EPS vs expectations
DateExpected EPSReported EPSSurprise
2026-08-050.430.46+6.5%
2026-05-050.350.4+14.0%
2026-02-110.470.55+16.2%
2025-11-120.390.41+5.4%
2025-08-050.360.42+16.9%
2025-05-060.290.34+17.8%
2025-02-110.450.46+1.8%
2024-11-050.330.41+23.7%
2024-08-060.290.38+31.5%
2024-05-070.230.31+34.1%
2024-02-130.590.64+8.7%
2023-11-070.50.55+9.8%
2023-08-080.50.53+5.4%
2023-05-090.490.52+5.1%
2023-02-141.321.44+8.8%
2022-11-080.620.67+8.9%
2022-08-090.450.58+28.3%
2022-05-100.240.42+73.5%
2022-02-080.110.18+61.2%
2021-11-30—0.07+4535.8%

About GlobalFoundries

Website ↗

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., a semiconductor foundry, provides range of mainstream wafer fabrication services and technologies in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It offers semiconductor devices, including microprocessors, mobile application processors, baseband processors, network processors, radio frequency modems, microcontrollers, and power management units. The company also provides quantum technology solutions. GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. has a strategic partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission to accelerate scientific discovery through artificial intelligence and advanced computing; and Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited to accelerate utility-scale quantum manufacturing. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Malta, New York.

14,000 employees · Malta, United States

One company produces almost all leading-edge AI logic. N3/N2 capacity is allocated years ahead and every new fab is a multi-year, tens-of-billions bet.

EUV + tools→Wafer starts→Leading-node logic→Packaging

What would prove us wrong. Weakens if leading-node utilisation falls while packaging and HBM stay loose — logic would no longer bind.

Peers at the same bottleneck

Who else supplies this

StockRoleLast1D1MYTDTrend
TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor
Leading-node foundry and CoWoS packaging chokepoint $427.1+2.06%−5.2%+41.7%
INTC
Intel
US foundry rebuild with advanced-packaging optionality $91.44+5.15%−25.7%+147.8%
005930.KS
Samsung Electronics
HBM, DRAM and foundry across memory and logic ₩213,000−1.16%−22.3%+78.2%
UMC
United Microelectronics
Mature-node foundry and interposer capacity $19.27+2.01%−20.7%+149.5%

Not investment advice. Prices delayed and in local currency. Quotes in "double quotes" are verbatim as reported by the linked source; other commentary is our paraphrase. Earnings dates are estimates.