United Microelectronic (UMC)

• Market cap: $17.2B
• 1 day: 1.33%
• 5 days: -0.58%
• 1 month: -0.44%
• 3 months: -17.67%
• 6 months: 2.24%
• Year to date: 4.9%
• 1 year: -19.32%
• 5 years: 58.56%
• 10 years: 278.45%
• Sector: Technology
• Industry: Semiconductors

About: Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 5% market share in 2024 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, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx, and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.

Employees: 19,016

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

35% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 46 | Existing positions closed: 34

14% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 83 | Existing positions reduced: 73

4.78% more ownership

Funds ownership: 1.23% [Q1] → 6.01% (+4.78%) [Q2]

2% more funds holding

Funds holding: 230 [Q1] → 234 (+4) [Q2]

5% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $1.1B [Q1] → $1.16B (+$53.2M) [Q2]

81% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $1.6M | Put options by funds: $8.51M