Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, packages, tests, and sells integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices in Taiwan, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, the United States, and internationally. It provides various wafer fabrication processes, such as processes to manufacture complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, bipolar CMOS mixed-signal, and others. …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Consistently Above PeersGross margin at 59.9% (top 23%) and operating margin at 50.8% (top 6%) indicate strong pricing power.
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.89), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur ranks #2 of 66
scored companies in Semiconductors by moat score — the top 3%.
The widest moat in the group is NVE Corporation (NVEC)
at 86/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near TSM in Semiconductors
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 94
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 81
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 92
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 70
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 82
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur's moat score?
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur (TSM) scores 84 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #2 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors, the top 3%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 65 companies in Semiconductors. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (94/100) and its weakest is Resilience (70/100).
How does Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur compare with other Semiconductors companies?
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur ranks #2 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors by moat score. The widest moat in Semiconductors is NVE Corporation (NVEC) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are NVE Corporation (NVEC) at 86 just above it and Cirrus Logic, Inc. (CRUS) at 82 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 65 companies in Semiconductors. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and TSM scores: Pricing Power (87), Cost Advantage (94), Customer Stickiness (81), Capital Efficiency (92), Resilience (70), Scale & Market Position (82). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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