Company
Market Value
Dividend Yield
Trailing P/E Ratio
|
Intel
|
$148 billion
|
3.1%
|
13.5
|
|
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
|
$122 billion
|
2.1%
|
14.5
|
|
QUALCOMM
|
$114 billion
|
2.4%
|
14.6
|
|
Texas Instruments
|
$61 billion
|
2.4%
|
18.0
|
|
ASML Holding
|
$45 billion
|
0.8%
|
33.7
|
|
Avago Technologies
|
$33 billion
|
1.2%
|
68.8
|
|
Micron Technologies
|
$30 billion
|
N/A
|
7.2
|
|
Applied Materials
|
$28 billion
|
1.8%
|
14.6
|
|
Broadcom
|
$26 billion
|
1.3%
|
14.5
|
|
ARM Holdings
|
$24 billion
|
0.8%
|
30.3
|
Data source: FinViz.
Many of these names should be familiar already. Others spend less time in the limelight.
From a product perspective, these stocks fall into three broad categories.
ARM Holdings is the only pure play on chip technology licenses. Taiwan Semi, ASML, and Applied Materials work on the manufacturing and factory equipment side of things. The other six design the semiconductors we use every day, in everything from smartphones and supercomputers to industrial systems and car engine controllers.
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