Best Manufacturing Stocks To Research - April 12th

Key Points

• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Applied Materials (AMAT), and Fabrinet (FN) are MarketBeat’s three manufacturing stocks to watch, selected for having the highest recent dollar trading volume among manufacturing companies.
• Manufacturing stocks are typically capital- and inventory-intensive and tend to be cyclical, making them sensitive to economic growth, commodity prices, supply-chain disruptions, and changes in labor or regulatory costs.
• TSM is a major wafer foundry offering a wide range of fabrication processes; AMAT provides semiconductor and display manufacturing equipment and services; and FN offers advanced optical packaging and precision electronic manufacturing services.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Applied Materials, and Fabrinet are the three Manufacturing stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Manufacturing stocks are shares of companies whose primary business is producing physical goods by transforming raw materials into finished products—examples include firms in automotive, aerospace, electronics, machinery, and chemical manufacturing. For investors, these stocks are often capital- and inventory-intensive and tend to be cyclical and sensitive to economic growth, commodity prices, supply-chain disruptions, and changes in labor or regulatory costs. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Manufacturing stocks within the last several days.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, packages, tests, and sells integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices in Taiwan, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, the United States, and internationally. It provides a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, bipolar CMOS mixed-signal, and others.

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Applied Materials (AMAT)

Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits.

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Fabrinet (FN)

Fabrinet provides optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical, and electronic manufacturing services in North America, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The company offers a range of advanced optical and electro-mechanical capabilities in the manufacturing process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing, printed circuit board assembly, advanced packaging, integration, final assembly, and testing.

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