United Microelectronics/$UMC
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About United Microelectronics
Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with close to 5% market share in 2025 after TSMC and SMIC. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the US, and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base that includes Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Intel, Broadcom, Novatek, and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 19,000 people as of February 2025.
- Ticker
- $UMC
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Primary listing
- NYSE
- Employees
- 20,000
- Headquarters
- Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Province of China
- Website
- www.umc.com
UMC Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$57B
109.30
$0.21
1.70
$0.31
1.36%
Price and volume
Market cap
$57B
Beta
1.7
52-week high
$28.96
52-week low
$6.97
Average daily volume
11M
Dividend rate
$0.31
Financial strength
Current ratio
2.166
Quick ratio
1.772
Long term debt to equity
0.115
Total debt to equity
0.143
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
42.87%
Interest coverage (TTM)
32.99%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
3,423.524
Gross margin (TTM)
30.60%
Net profit margin (TTM)
33.29%
Operating margin (TTM)
19.73%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
9.45%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$390,870
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
5.09%
Return on equity (TTM)
21.33%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
109.304
Price to revenue (TTM)
36.026
Price to book
4.12
Price to tangible book (TTM)
4.17
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
152.394
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
0.66%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
0.148
Dividend yield (TTM)
1.36%
Forward dividend yield
1.36%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
5.57%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
110.59%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
-0.40%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
5.96%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
1.05%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
27.66%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
-10.28%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
16.49%
What the Analysts think about UMC
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for United Microelectronics stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of United Microelectronics stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
Q2 wafer shipments rose 10.6% quarter on quarter and utilisation reached 85%, up from 79%; management expects shipments to grow at a high-single-digit rate and utilisation to exceed 90% in Q3. That points to improving near-term fab economics. (Business Wire)
UMC’s 22/28nm business reached 37% of Q2 revenue, while it has already delivered its first mass-produced 12-inch silicon photonics wafers to a customer. These milestones give it growth opportunities in higher-value specialty chips and AI data-centre connections. (Business Wire, CNBC)
UMC plans a wafer price adjustment in the second half of 2026, and management said pricing discussions have become more constructive. If customers accept the increases, they could help support margins, with management expecting a more meaningful uplift in 2027. (Investing.com, The Motley Fool)
Management said the recovery is not broad-based: non-AI demand remains uneven, and handset, PC and notebook sales are expected to decline year on year. That leaves UMC exposed if AI-linked demand does not offset weakness in consumer markets. (The Motley Fool)
UMC raised its 2026 capital-expenditure budget to US$2 billion and is expanding in Singapore and Taiwan. Management warned that higher depreciation from the new capacity will weigh on gross margins, even as utilisation improves. (Business Wire, The Motley Fool)
First-half net income included NT$26.4 billion from associates and joint ventures and NT$8.2 billion in other gains and losses. Those non-operating contributions make headline profit less representative of the underlying foundry business and may not be repeated. (Stock Titan)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 5 Oct 2026.
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Funds containing UMC
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Fund name | Fund size | $UMC weighting |
|---|---|---|
HSBC MSCI Emerging Markets Islamic Screened Capped$HIEM | $182M | 2.13% |
HSBC MSCI Emerging Markets Islamic Screened Capped£HIES | $182M | 2.13% |
SPDR MSCI EM Asia$EMAD | $1.7B | 0.51% |
SPDR MSCI EM Asia€SPYA | €1.4B | 0.51% |
SPDR MSCI Emerging Markets$EMRD | $2.3B | 0.42% |
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