Goldman Sachs bullish AI drives strong growth and prompts an increase in TSMC's target price
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Goldman Sachs raised TSMC's target price and capital expenditure forecasts due to expectations for AI-related demand, while maintaining its “Buy” rating.
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Goldman Sachs bullish AI drives strong growth and prompts an increase in TSMC's target price
PANews October 6 reported that Goldman Sachs, due to AI demand in GPU, networking chips, and servers CPU sectors, raised its target price and capital expenditure forecasts for TSMC. Analyst Evelyn Yu noted, “Stronger AI（Agentic AI）-driven CPU demand is the key change of the past 1 years.” Goldman Sachs expects TSMC's 2026 year/2027 year revenue to grow year on year by 42.0%/36.9%（USD basis), with gross margins of 67.2%/67.5%; it also raised its 2027 year/2028 year capital expenditure forecast from 78000000000/82000000000 USD to 85000000000/98000000000 USD, to support long-term customer demand. It maintained a “Buy” rating and raised the target price from 3100 New Taiwan dollars to 3300 New Taiwan dollars.
PANews said Goldman Sachs raised TSMC's target price and capital expenditure forecasts.
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The report attributed the adjustment to AI demand in GPU, networking chips, and servers CPU sectors continuing to expand.
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Analyst Evelyn Yu said that stronger AI demand driven by agentic CPU demand is the key change of the past 1 years.
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Goldman Sachs expects TSMC's 2026 year and 2027 year revenue to grow year on year by 42.0%and 36.9%, respectively, on a USD basis.
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Goldman Sachs expects TSMC's 2026 year and 2027 year gross margins to be 67.2%and 67.5%。
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Goldman Sachs raised its forecast for TSMC's 2027 year and 2028 year capital expenditure from 78000000000、82000000000 USD to 85000000000、98000000000 USD。
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Goldman Sachs maintained its “Buy” rating for TSMC and raised the target price from 3100 New Taiwan dollars to 3300 New Taiwan dollars.
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The core of this news is that Goldman Sachs believes AI demand for related chips and servers will continue to expand, so it raised its forecasts for TSMC's future revenue, gross margin, and capital expenditure, as well as its target price. However, these figures are Goldman Sachs' forecasts, not performance already achieved by TSMC.
Why it matters to readers
The simultaneous increases in the target price, revenue forecast, and capital expenditure forecast reflect Goldman Sachs' positive assessment of TSMC's long-term customer demand and AI-related demand; the market may therefore focus on TSMC and the semiconductor,AI industry chain.
Beginners should distinguish between “forecasts” and “realized results”: a Buy rating and target price are the research institution's judgments; they do not mean the share price will necessarily rise, nor that the forecast revenue and gross margin will necessarily be achieved.
Risks and unknowns
The material was relayed by PANews and did not provide Goldman Sachs' original research report, so its complete assumptions and context cannot be verified.
2026 The revenue, gross margin, and capital expenditure figures from 2028 to
The original text does not specify the applicable period for the target price.
The original text does not provide TSMC's response to these forecasts.
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