United Microelectronic (UMC)

• Market cap: $17.7B
• 1 day: 1.73%
• 5 days: 4.30%
• 1 month: -1.54%
• 3 months: 20.55%
• 6 months: 0.72%
• Year to date: 7.81%
• 1 year: -8.57%
• 5 years: 181.60%
• 10 years: 190.91%
• 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: 19,833

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q3] → 2 (+0) [Q4]

0% less ownership

Funds ownership: 1.28% [Q3] → 1.28% (-0%) [Q4]

5% less funds holding

Funds holding: 265 [Q3] → 251 (-14) [Q4]

11% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $2.91M | Put options by funds: $3.26M

17% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 45 | Existing positions closed: 54

23% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $1.35B [Q3] → $1.04B (-$310M) [Q4]

36% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 66 | Existing positions reduced: 103