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GlobalFoundries GFS
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 53% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $28.65−32%
- Market Value
- —
- Off 52-wk high
- −53%
- Risk vs market
- Highbeta 2.24
3 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $41.90
- Fair value est.base case$28.65−31.6%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$32.24−23.1%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$41.90you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$89.96+114.7%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, GFS’s free cash flow would need to grow about 10% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much GFS moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings much more than the market, and its own price swings are 4.8× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 2.24
- Volatility
- 61% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.47
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.58
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
ValuationPrice / book of 2.0×, below the 7.1× median for the 149 Technology companies we cover.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 4.3%, above the 3.1% median for the 161 Technology companies we cover.
ValuationP/E of 26.4×, below the 33.9× median for the 138 Technology companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $28.65, 32% below the price.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 11.7% in FY2025 from 15.3% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
GrowthSales shrank 6% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
RiskSwings hard: beta 2.24 vs the S&P 500 and 61% yearly volatility (SPY 13%).
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on GlobalFoundries in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Semiconductors
All fundamentals
P/E 26.4 · FCF yield 4.3% · ROE 8%
Valuation
- P/E
- 26.4×Technology median 33.9×
- Price / FCF
- 23.2×
- FCF yield
- 4.3%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 3.44×
- Price / book
- 1.96×
- Market cap
- $23.4Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $6.8B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +0.6%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −5.7%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $1.59
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- $885M
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 24.9%
- Operating margin
- 11.7%
- Net margin
- 13.0%
- FCF margin
- 14.9%
- Return on equity
- 8%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $1.8B
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- 8.6×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $1.0B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −8%
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $0
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Dec 31, 2025; balance sheet at Dec 31, 2025. From GlobalFoundries’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $28.65 · FCF value $32.73
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew -5.7% a year FY22–FY25; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $1.81 a share (fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025), from the 20-F filed Feb 27, 2026. Net cash $658M, not added.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 36 · 5 days −5.6%
The business
FCF $0.8B · Sales +6%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.8B
- Free-cash-flow yield3.1%
- Free-cash-flow margin12%
- Gross margin27%
- Operating margin12%
- Return on invested capital5%
- Return on equity6%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+6%
- Net debt / EBITDA0.3×
Next report
Nov 4
- DateWed Nov 4, before the open
- Consensus EPS$0.39
- Year-ago EPS$0.34
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
GFS is outside our quality screen
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