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A $1,000 investment in Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) a decade ago would be worth nearly $22,000 today—a 2,095% return that demolished the S&P 500.
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Taiwan Semiconductor transformed from commodity chip maker to AI kingmaker by dominating the advanced node race and controlling 72% of the global foundry market.
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The bull case hinges on sustained AI capex and geopolitical stability, but Taiwan Strait risk could wipe out years of gains in weeks.
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TSM trades at 28x forward earnings with 22.5% annual earnings growth modeled, leaving minimal room for an AI spending slowdown.
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A decade ago, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) was respected but boring. It made chips for Apple, Qualcomm, and a long list of fabless designers, and the market valued it like a cyclical industrial. Then the node race got serious. TSMC pulled away from Samsung and Intel at 7nm, then 5nm, then 3nm, and the company became the only place on earth that could reliably manufacture leading-edge silicon at scale.
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The AI boom poured gasoline on that lead. Today TSMC controls roughly 72% of the global foundry market and prints chips for NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, and Broadcom on advanced nodes that are running near capacity. Management just approved ~$31.28 billion in capital appropriations for new fabs and up to $20 billion for its Arizona subsidiary to diversify away from Taiwan. Q1 2026 EPS came in at $3.49, beating estimates by 8.39%, and quarterly revenue grew 35.1% year over year.
Your $1,000 Turned Into Nearly $22,000
Here is what $1,000 invested in TSMC would look like across three windows, using split- and dividend-adjusted prices through June 3, 2026.
1-Year Return
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Initial Investment: $1,000
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Current Value: $2,236.50
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Total Return: 123.65%
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S&P 500 (same period): $1,265.30 (26.53%)
5-Year Return
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Initial Investment: $1,000
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Current Value: $3,969.20
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Total Return: 296.92%
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S&P 500 (same period): $1,784.80 (78.48%)
10-Year Return
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Initial Investment: $1,000
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Current Value: $21,954.70
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Total Return: 2,095.47%
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S&P 500 (same period): $3,586.80 (258.68%)
The 10-year number is the headline, but the path was bumpy. Anyone who bought in 2016 sat through the 2018 trade war selloff, the 2022 China-Taiwan invasion scare that briefly cut the stock in half, and a sluggish 2023. The reward for holding through that noise is a stock that has outpaced the S&P 500 by a wide margin over the decade and again over the past year.
