Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE:TSM) (TSMC) is set to hand down its second quarter financial results on Thursday, July 20, with the company expecting its results will continue to be negatively impacted by softening demand for microchips amid the current glut of inventory.
However, the company on Monday unveiled better-than-expected initial revenue results for the period. It said it achieved 2Q revenue of NT$480.8 billion (US$15.3 billion), above the Street's expectation of NT$476.2 billion, according to Bloomberg.
When handing down its first quarter results in April, the company had lowered its 2Q revenue forecast to between US$15.2 billion and US$16 billion, down from about $18.2 billion in revenue reported last year.
It forecast a 2Q gross profit between 52% and 54% and an operating margin between 39.5% and 41.5%.
This compares to a gross margin of 59.1% and an operating margin of 49.1% in the year-ago quarter.
“Moving into second quarter 2023, we expect our business to continue to be impacted by customers’ further inventory adjustment,” the company’s CFO Wendell Huang noted in April alongside the company’s 1Q results.
For 2Q, analysts, on average, expect the chip-maker to post earnings per share of $1.08 according to Zacks Consensus Estimate, down from $1.55 in the comparable quarter last year.
TSMC's US-listed shares were trading at US$99.77 on Monday afternoon.
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