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Company snapshot — Tower Semiconductor Ltd

TSEM in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Tower Semiconductor is an independent foundry that manufactures chips for other companies from their design files rather than designing end products itself. It focuses on customisable process technologies such as analogue and mixed-signal circuits, radio-frequency chips, silicon photonics, CMOS image sensors and power-management devices rather than the smallest transistor geometries. Its customers are integrated device makers and fabless companies serving consumer electronics, communications, automotive, industrial and medical markets. It is headquartered in Migdal Haemek, Israel.
Where it sits in the stack
In our Rubin Build-Out 100 index, Tower sits in Layer 2, Fabrication, within the Foundry & Integration sleeve — foundries and integrated device makers that turn design files into working dies, where capacity is the binding constraint. Tower is a customer of the equipment and materials layers above it and itself a constraint on capacity for the specialty analogue, RF and sensor chips it makes.
Who it is priced against
Its Closelooknet peer group is the Rubin Build-Out 100's Foundry & Integration sleeve, grouped because these firms turn design files into working dies and capacity is the constraint; it sits alongside Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, ASE Industrial Holding, Amkor Technology and Globalfoundries. The market also names United Microelectronics as a comparable specialty and mature-node foundry.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Tower is a constituent of the Rubin Build-Out 100. It carries a Closelooknet score, with momentum the strongest module and valuation the weakest.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether specialty foundry order flow from analogue, RF and image-sensor customers strengthens as the AI build-out draws demand toward general capacity.

Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TSEM) trades on US exchanges in Israel, classified under Technology, and sits in Layer 2 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 46/100 composite (momentum 55, quality 43, valuation 13) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for TSEM, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 3 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Mizuho, 2026-09-25

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for TSEM from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Mizuho — target 300 Target set to $300 (+38.1% to spot) 2026-09-25
  • Initiation Barclays — at Overweight Initiated to Overweight 2026-09-18
  • Price target Stifel — target 270 Target set to $270 (+35.6% to spot) 2026-09-01

3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation, 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against Rubin Build-Out 100 · Foundry & Integration · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Rubin Build-Out 100 · Foundry & Integration

Pure-play foundries and IDMs that turn design files into working dies. Capacity here is the binding constraint.

Compared against TSEM on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-09-25

DayWeekMonth3 months
TSEM+6.1%+3.1%+4.2%−7.8%
Foundry & Integration+2.6%+4.5%+9.9%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+1.7%+5.0%+4.1%—

Against the index: 1.9 pts behind on the week, 0.1 pts ahead on the month; against its Foundry & Integration sleeve 5.7 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months

Dividends and capital return

What TSEM pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Distributions No cash distribution recorded in the price series over the last three years
  • Share count +1.1% in FY2025

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.48 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How TSEM has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.48 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Tower Semiconductor Ltd moved 0.48% on average · correlation 0.06 · higher than 50% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.92 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.66% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −5.74% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TSEM)?

Tower Semiconductor Ltd trades as TSEM on the US exchange (Israel) and is classified under Technology in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is TSEM in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Tower Semiconductor Ltd is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-09-26.

What is Tower Semiconductor Ltd's Closelooknet composite score?

46 out of 100, with momentum 55, quality 43 and valuation 13 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-26. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does TSEM trade against its moving averages?

Down 5.7% at the close: Already below its 50-day; one of the day's sharpest drops. As of 2026-09-24 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is TSEM doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Tower Semiconductor Ltd is +4.2% against +4.1% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 0.1 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-09-25. Its Foundry & Integration sleeve is +9.9% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does Tower Semiconductor Ltd do?

Tower Semiconductor is an independent foundry that manufactures chips for other companies from their design files rather than designing end products itself. It focuses on customisable process technologies such as analogue and mixed-signal circuits, radio-frequency chips, silicon photonics, CMOS image sensors and power-management devices rather than the smallest transistor geometries. Its customers are integrated device makers and fabless companies serving consumer electronics, communications, automotive, industrial and medical markets. Its Closelooknet peer group is the Rubin Build-Out 100's Foundry & Integration sleeve, grouped because these firms turn design files into working dies and capacity is the constraint; it sits alongside Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, ASE Industrial Holding, Amkor Technology and Globalfoundries. The market also names United Microelectronics as a comparable specialty and mature-node foundry.

Where does Tower Semiconductor Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

In our Rubin Build-Out 100 index, Tower sits in Layer 2, Fabrication, within the Foundry & Integration sleeve — foundries and integrated device makers that turn design files into working dies, where capacity is the binding constraint. Tower is a customer of the equipment and materials layers above it and itself a constraint on capacity for the specialty analogue, RF and sensor chips it makes. Tower is a constituent of the Rubin Build-Out 100. It carries a Closelooknet score, with momentum the strongest module and valuation the weakest.

Does Tower Semiconductor Ltd pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in Tower Semiconductor Ltd’s price series over the last three years. The share count rose 1.1% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does Tower Semiconductor Ltd trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Tower Semiconductor Ltd had a beta of 0.48 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 50% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.66% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Tower Semiconductor Ltd recently?

The most recent analyst action on Tower Semiconductor Ltd on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Mizuho on 2026-09-25 (target 300). 3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation, 2 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

Where has Closelooknet written about Tower Semiconductor Ltd?

Tower Semiconductor Ltd appears in 1 Closelooknet piece, most recently Morning 10: Yen — the Bank of Japan hikes and the dollar holds 157: the carry trade pays, the lines held, chips +3.4% over $505 (2026-09-18). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for TSEM, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 1 piece · newest: Morning 10, “Yen — the Bank of Japan hikes and the dollar holds 157: the carry trade pays, the lines held, chips +3.4% over $505” (2026-09-18)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where TSEM appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Semiconductors. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.