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Dossiers in the Semi foundry & equipment theme cluster — 62 names moving on shared catalysts.

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UMC United Microelectronic Corp. fresh LOW Silicon-photonics pivot re-rated the ADR ~3x, but the July blowoff to $28.96 round-tripped -26% to $21.25 in days while sell-side finally upgraded (Macquarie Outperform 2026-07-14) — late-stage distribution behaviour. The 2026-07-29 Q2… Special situation · Semi foundry & equipment · Networking & optical catalyst · AEHR Aehr Test Systems fresh LOW Wafer-level burn-in toll on AI silicon: FY2027 guided $130–150M against $50.0M in FY2026, guide unamended. But the 2026-07-21 shelf at $98.91 gave way on the 2026-08-24 close of $96.43 — a fifth straight lower close from $145.61… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · ASML ASML Holding N.V. fresh LOW The $1,740 July band floor is being tested: the 2026-08-24 close of $1,740.13 sits on it after the $1,805 shelf reclaim failed. Consensus has been flat at $2,195 for a fourth reading, nothing ASML-dated resolves before 2026-10-14, and the… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · AXTI AXT Inc fresh LOW The prior break level failed: 2026-08-24 closed $65.40, roughly a third below the 2026-08-17 intraday $97.79 and back at the $64.25 April secondary price, erasing almost the whole post-Q2 gap while contracted InP demand keeps building. The… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · MTUM fresh LOW The AI-memory leg MTUM rotated into at the May reconstitution has rolled over: SOX -20%+ from its June peak, memory names in a bear market, and the fund closed $302.09 on 2026-07-17, below the $310 shelf that defined the… Compounder · AI chips & memory · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · TSEM Tower Semiconductor Ltd. fresh LOW Picks-and-shovels silicon-photonics foundry leg has de-rated straight into the range where July's pre-arranged CEO sales printed: the 2026-08-24 close of $211.10 sits inside $210.33–$211.27 and 33.4% under the 2026-06-22 high, with no… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · INTC Intel Corporation fresh LOW Funded legacy-pivot leg is holding the $101.65 pre-announcement shelf by under a dollar after the 2026-08-14 close of $102.50; CEO Tan's Form 4 (105,263 sh at $95.00) is the only fresh company datapoint in a week of 13F-derived coverage.… Special situation · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · LRCX Lam Research Corporation fresh LOW The WFE/AI-memory capex trade that ran Lam +119% YTD into June has rolled into a group-wide correction — the worst month for chip stocks since 2008, memory momentum broken (Micron/SanDisk). The ~2026-07-29 FQ4 print is now the binary: it… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · ONTO Onto Innovation Inc. fresh LOW June breakout fully round-tripped: ATH $386.46 (6/30) to $279.85 (7/17), now below the 50-DMA at $294.49. The tell is non-participation — TSMC raised capex to $60-64B and ASML guided up twice on 7/15-16, and ONTO closed the week at its… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI chips & memory catalyst · TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. fresh LOW Q2 (7/16) beat every line and lifted FY26 growth guide above 40%, but the capex raise to $60–64B and a 2026-07-26 Samsung–Broadcom $200B foundry pact reopened the monopoly question. Theme cooled to maturing; price recovered to ~$415, still… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · ACLS Axcelis Technologies, Inc. MEDIUM Beat-and-raise on 2026-08-06 (Q2 rev $215.175M vs $204.985M est; Q3 guided $230.0M vs $214.846M) repaired the fundamental case, but price only recovered to the top of the July band at $140.15 (08-14), 26.9% under the $191.6 high. China… Earnings inflection · Semi foundry & equipment · AI chips & memory analysed · ALGT Allegiant Travel Company MEDIUM Allegiant closed the $1.5B Sun Country acquisition (2026-05-13) to become the largest US leisure airline just as fuel flipped to a tailwind and the whole sell-side re-rated it to $142–$160; the move has more than doubled off the low, and… Special situation · Semi foundry & equipment · Travel & leisure analysed · ATEYY Advantest Corporation MEDIUM The 2026-07-29 Q1 print broke the H2 digestion flag: FY2026 guide raised to ¥1,714.0B sales / ¥846.0B operating income, CY2026 tester TAM lifted to $13.0–14.5B from $10.9–12.2B, and the ADR made a new 52-week high at $235.00 on 2026-08-14.… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI chips & memory analysed · BABA Alibaba Group Holding Limited MEDIUM Cloud/AI re-rating leg picked up an Apple attachment — Reuters reported 2026-08-14 that Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support — Price faded the other way, $128.41 on 08-07 to $123.81 on 08-14, 34.0% under the 52-week… Compounder · AI enterprise software · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · CLW Clearwater Paper Corporation MEDIUM SBS paperboard price inflection: two $60/ton increases plus ~300kt of capacity out YTD took Q3 adjusted EBITDA guidance to $20–30M from negative $8M in Q2. The overbought condition at the 2026-08-07 high of $23.31 has worked off — RSI(14)… Special situation · Cyclical industrials · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · COHU Cohu, Inc. MEDIUM Best fundamental print of the AI cycle (2026-07-30: rev $149M vs $144.08M cons.; Q3 guided $163–177M vs $146.33M) collided with a sector de-rate — the stock closed $52.88 on 2026-08-07, 28.5% under its $73.91 high and beneath the June… Cyclical recovery · AI datacenter infrastructure · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · ELE Elemental Royalty Corporation MEDIUM Post-EMX royalty roll-up compounding fast: Q2 2026 revenue $23.8M vs $9.1M a year earlier, record 5,248 GEOs, guidance affirmed at 17,000–21,000 GEOs (2026-08-11), Vizsla Royalties silver leg targeted to close Q3 2026. Narrative… Cyclical recovery · Critical materials & rare earths · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · ELF e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. MEDIUM Sell-side flipped from cutting to marking up in ten days — five PT raises 2026-07-10→07-17 (JPM $94, Canaccord $97, Citi $92, RJ $87, UBS $80) on the e.l.f. Hair launch and Rhode scaling, while the stock slipped to $72.25. Narrative… Earnings inflection · Consumer discretionary rotation · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · ENTG Entegris, Inc. MEDIUM June's sentiment re-rate rolled over; the 2026-08-04 beat-and-raise re-based the story on numbers — Q2 sales $883.2M vs $835.5M consensus, Q3 guide $905–935M vs $879.8M — and drew three target raises on 08-05 (UBS $215). At $152.08 the… Cyclical recovery · AI chips & memory · Analog semiconductors catalyst · FET Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. MEDIUM Oilfield-equipment operating-leverage re-rating, now maturing: the 2026-07-30 Q2 beat ($1.16 adj EPS vs $0.56) and raised FY26 guide were reiterated at EnerCom on 2026-08-18 ($890M revenue, $120M EBITDA). Price made a $86.31 52-week high,… Cyclical recovery · Cyclical industrials · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · FORM FormFactor, Inc. MEDIUM Probe-card pick-and-shovel to the HBM4 test ramp; after a parabolic run to a fresh $160.27 ATH (2026-06-30) on Russell 1000 inclusion, the 2026-07-02 chip selloff cut FORM ~24% to ~$121. HBM inflection intact (record DRAM quarter, second… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI chips & memory catalyst · HIMX Himax Technologies, Inc. MEDIUM Q2 beat and an above-consensus Q3 guide (2026-08-06) plus Baird's $43 target (2026-08-07) failed to hold a price — $13.79 close on 2026-08-21, under the $14.61 post-print close, 42.0% below the $23.79 high. WiseEye's first commercial… Theme leader · AI enterprise software · Analog semiconductors analysed · IMOS ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. MEDIUM Memory-cycle re-rating in an AI costume just re-accelerated: June 2026 revenue +37.2% YoY and Q2 +28.7% YoY (both records since 2014, reported 2026-07-10) erase the May deceleration scare, and price bought back the ~17% fade to sit ~$68… Theme leader · AI chips & memory · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · KEYS Keysight Technologies, Inc. MEDIUM Analyst-migration re-rate's second leg (Morgan Stanley to Overweight, PT $400, 2026-07-13) has stalled — silent tape near 28x forward, empty calendar until the ~2026-08-19 Q3 FY26 print. The $290–300 breakout-shelf entry hasn't come;… Cyclical recovery · AI datacenter infrastructure · Networking & optical catalyst · LAD Lithia Motors, Inc. MEDIUM Legacy dealer group re-rating on non-store earnings: the 2026-07-29 Q2 beat ($10.03 adj EPS vs $8.78) was carried by Driveway Finance while same-store revenue fell 1.6%. Since then only re-marking — Barclays $360 to $415 on 2026-08-19 —… Special situation · Consumer discretionary rotation · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · RPD Rapid7, Inc. MEDIUM Q2 (2026-08-10) flipped RPD from a pure take-private probe to a cost-out re-rating: ARR still -2.0% YoY at $824M, but EPS beat $0.44 vs $0.35, a 12% headcount cut targets 20% Q4 operating margin, and FY26 EPS guide went to $1.78-1.83.… Earnings inflection · Semi foundry & equipment · AI enterprise software analysed · SHIP Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. MEDIUM Capesize spot printed $40,170/day on 2026-08-20, roughly 30% above the ~$30,998/day the company guided for Q3 on 2026-07-30 — yet the stock closed $17.50 on 2026-08-21, still 3.7% under its $18.17 high. No company print until… Compounder · Freight & logistics · Managed care & health services catalyst · ACB Aurora Cannabis Inc. LOW Frame flipped 2026-08-11: Curaleaf's unsolicited proposal — 0.3463 CURLF shares + US$0.75 cash, implied US$4.00, capped at US$5.00 — turned a broken Canadian LP into a live take-over situation. No formal bid has been commenced, the board… Earnings inflection · M&A & special situations · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · ACMR ACM Research, Inc. LOW Beat-and-raise on 2026-08-07 (revenue $292.9M +36% YoY, EPS $0.61 vs $0.34, FY26 floor lifted to $1.125B, H1 orders +105% YoY) was sold: the stock round-tripped to $80.42 on 2026-08-14, -36.6% from a $126.89 52-week high. Order curve… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI datacenter infrastructure analysed · ALOT AstroNova, Inc. LOW Terminal merger-arb pin. Arcline's $29.00 all-cash take-private cleared its HSR condition on 2026-07-31 and goes to a shareholder vote on 2026-08-25; the 2026-08-14 close of $28.91 leaves $0.09 of gross spread against a break tail toward… Earnings inflection · M&A & special situations · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. LOW Record Q3 FY2026 (revenue $9.12B, +25% YoY; Q4 guide $10.25B ±$0.50B) keeps de-rating anyway: $507.18 on 2026-08-14, $492.32 on 2026-08-21, 31.8% under the $722.23 high, with every published target from $585 to $740 above the market. No… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · AMKR Amkor Technology, Inc. LOW A second anchor — the $1.5B Nvidia advanced-packaging/test partnership (2026-07-23) stacked on the 2026-06-16 TSMC 10-yr Arizona deal — is re-rating Amkor from single-customer Apple OSAT toward US AI back-end anchor. But every catalyst… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI chips & memory analysed · ASX ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. LOW Advanced-packaging pricing power is real — quotes raised 20%+ (2026-07-01), 2026 capex hiked to US$8.5B, CoWoS-equivalent capacity tripling to 25k wpm — but the tape topped at $45.51 the same day and sits ~15% lower inside a 13% semi… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · ATAI AtaiBeckley Inc. LOW Lilly takeout is now a process, not a story: DEFM14A filed, special meeting 2026-09-08, HSR filed 2026-07-29, close guided Q3 2026. The 2026-08-14 close of $7.26 sits $0.51 over the $6.75 cash leg, so all remaining return is an unread CVR… Earnings inflection · Precision biotech & therapeutics · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · ATHM Autohome Inc. LOW Cash-return re-rating in a shrinking business, now at negative enterprise value: US$2.62bn market cap against US$2.67bn cash, EV -US$36.57m (2026-08-16), a US$400m buyback authorised 2026-07-28 and an RMB1.5bn 2026 dividend floor. The… Special situation · Emerging markets · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · BWIN The Baldwin Insurance Group, Inc. LOW Take-private premium is bleeding while sell-side chases it higher: price slipped to $27.25 (2026-07-17) from $28.41 (2026-07-02) even as KBW went to $31 and JPM to $30. Nothing is signed, and the 2026-07-30 Q2 print (guide $485–490M,… Earnings inflection · Semi foundry & equipment · AI enterprise software analysed · CBZ CBIZ, Inc. LOW Deal-completion story now, not an operating one: the 2026-08-21 close of $54.66 sits $0.34 under the signed $55.00 all-cash terms, in from $0.54 on 2026-08-14. The go-shop expiring 11:59pm ET 2026-08-27 is the only mechanism that can print… Earnings inflection · M&A & special situations · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · DIOD Diodes Incorporated LOW The AI-server/auto power-content re-rate that carried DIOD to a ~$126 all-time high (June 18) has round-tripped: a double-top, an analyst downgrade, more insider selling and a sector-wide semi selloff pushed it to ~$96 by July 10, through… Theme leader · Analog semiconductors · AI datacenter infrastructure analysed · GFS GlobalFoundries Inc. LOW Photonics/CHIPS delivery kept accelerating — comms/data-center revenue +62% YoY in Q2 (2026-08-05), $300M Commerce LoI 2026-07-29 — while the multiple collapsed 39.2% from the $89.83 52wk high to $54.58 on 2026-08-14. What's on offer is a… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · ICHR Ichor Holdings LOW Memory-capex WFE subsystem re-rating broke on the 2026-08-03 Q2 print: revenue $294.8M missed $300.2M consensus, the $78 June shelf failed, and the 2026-08-07 close was $68.32 against a $112.28 high. Q3 guidance still beats ($315–345M vs… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI chips & memory analysed · IQ iQIYI, Inc. LOW Long-form streaming growth is broken in the reported numbers (Q1 2026 revenue -13% YoY, operating income to a RMB228.4m loss), so what is left is the micro-drama/overseas pivot — newly branded as Undercurrent Theater in early August 2026 —… Special situation · AI enterprise software · Squeeze & momentum setups analysed · JWEL Jowell Global Ltd. LOW Low-float China e-commerce microcap that repriced +106% intraday on 2026-08-10 with no filing behind it; the leg being bought is float scarcity (2.38M shares out, $7.3M market cap) plus a 0.04x sales optic. Nothing on the calendar resolves… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · KLAC KLA Corporation LOW The $190 weekly level named in prior coverage broke — 2026-08-21 close $183.99, 38.9% under the $301.37 52-week high — and the three-month change of -2.5% makes the June advance a completed round trip. saturated: the $4.0B ±$200M September… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI chips & memory catalyst · KRT Karat Packaging Inc. LOW Tariff-refund re-rating has now run past almost every published target: the 2026-08-21 close of $48.05 sits under only Lake Street's $50 (raised 2026-08-07) and 41% above B. of A.'s $34. A 10% owner sold at $47.33 on 2026-08-20, and… Defensive · Cyclical industrials · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · MAMA Mama's Creations, Inc. LOW The $16.50 shelf from prior coverage is gone: 2026-08-21 weekly close $16.44, RSI(14) 26.3, still under the $18.00 June placement price. Earnings moved forward — Q2 FY2027 lands 2026-09-03 after the close and is the binary on both the… Defensive · Fintech & consumer credit · Small-cap value rotation catalyst · MKSI MKS Inc. LOW Operating leg accelerating into a de-rating tape: Q2 (2026-08-05) beat at $1.248B revenue / $3.30 adj EPS, Q3 guide $1.310–1.390B tops the $1.243B Street, leverage down to 3.0x — and the stock still fell 4.49% on the print and sits 31.4%… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · MTW The Manitowoc Company, Inc. LOW Order-cycle plus trade-protection plus deleveraging leg from the 2026-08-06 guidance raise is still working but is now maturing: price extended to a $20.87 52-week high while the two post-print analyst actions (Barclays $16, Wells Fargo… Defensive · Cyclical industrials · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · NOK Nokia Corporation LOW AI-networking legacy re-rate extending on a harder catalyst leg — first commercial AI-RAN platform with Nvidia (07-15) plus Taiwan Mobile, Orange Belgium and NestAI defense wins. Theme accelerating, but the 2026-07-23 pre-open Q2 print is… Special situation · Networking & optical · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · NXPI NXP Semiconductors N.V. LOW The 2026-07-28 beat-and-raise still is not being paid for: the 2026-08-21 weekly close of $225.56 held the $225 break line by 56 cents, and the week's damage came from the 30-year Treasury at 5.33% (19-year high), not from analog demand.… Theme leader · Analog semiconductors · AI chips & memory analysed · ON ON Semiconductor Corporation LOW The AI-power re-rate is unwinding, not consolidating: ON closed $87.37 on 7/17, below the 6/26 Synaptics deal-gap floor, with targets cut twice in three weeks (TD Cowen to $95 on 7/13, Mizuho to $125 on 7/1). Merger-arb supply plus a fixed… Theme leader · Industrial power & grid · AI chips & memory catalyst · PCT PureCycle Technologies, Inc. LOW Post-dilution repair story: the June 10–15 raise (~$145M equity + $287.5M 4.75% converts, ~$11.08 conv) roughly halved the stock to ~$8 while the commercial ramp (Q1 record 8.4M-lb output, +161% revenue) held. The 2026-07-15 Mitsui/RM… Retail squeeze · Squeeze & momentum setups · Critical materials & rare earths catalyst · PDFS PDF Solutions, Inc. LOW Yield-analytics software re-rated on a real margin step — operating margin ~18%→25%, Platform revenue +36% YoY (Q1 reported 2026-05-07) — but the ~+280% run peaked at $69.05 on 2026-07-02 and flushed 11.5% intraday; the name is now… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI enterprise software analysed · QDEL QuidelOrtho Corporation LOW Deal-rumor leg fully retraced and still unresolved: the 2026-08-06 cut (FY26 adj EPS to $0.65–0.90 from $1.80–2.00, FCF guide withdrawn) took price back to the $13.79 pre-rumor shelf, and the $14.74 close of 2026-08-21 is drift on no… Earnings inflection · Medtech & diagnostics · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · SITM SiTime Corporation LOW MEMS-timing picks-and-shovels story is fundamentally intact — Q1 datacenter revenue +158% YoY to 67% of sales, Renesas timing deal closed July 1 — but the momentum leg has broken: ~$550 on July 18 is ~39% off the May 11 all-time-high close… Cyclical recovery · AI datacenter infrastructure · Networking & optical analysed · STAA STAAR Surgical Company LOW Structure broken, no dated catalyst before the ~2026-10-07 pre-release window. Earnings inflection · Medtech & diagnostics · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · TAL TAL Education Group LOW Legacy-pivot re-rating still intact on fundamentals — Q1 FY2027 revenue +31.9% to $758.4M with selling and marketing down 5% — but the post-print impulse has largely round-tripped: $12.16 on 2026-08-11 to $11.32 on 2026-08-21, RSI 37.2,… Special situation · Semi foundry & equipment · Cyclical industrials catalyst · TER Teradyne, Inc. LOW Parabolic AI-test leg broke hard: $483.84 closing ATH (2026-06-30) to $322.36 (2026-07-17), −33% in twelve sessions on a memory-glut scare, with the whole $446–$550 analyst band now stranded above spot. Company guided Q2 revenue DOWN… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · AI chips & memory catalyst · UCTT Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. LOW WFE upcycle intact fundamentally but the tape broke: -35% from the $142.59 all-time close (2026-06-30) back under the ~$95 breakout shelf on sector-wide selling with no company news. Failed breakout, no support to $80.55, binary Q2 print… Cyclical recovery · Semi foundry & equipment · Freight & logistics catalyst · VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. LOW Merger-arb tracking stock for Axcelis: fixed 0.3575 ACLS/VECO, both votes cleared 2026-02-06, only China SAMR remains before the 2026-09-30 outside date. ACLS's slide to ~$134 de-pegged VECO to a premium over the exchange ratio (~$48) —… Earnings inflection · M&A & special situations · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · VOR Vor Biopharma Inc. LOW Legacy-pivot re-rating held its breakout through the 2026-08-11 Q2 miss — $23.36 close on 2026-08-21 against $23.67 on 08-07 — but the same release disclosed $48.4M of ATM stock sold into July strength. With UPSTREAM MG topline guided… Special situation · Oncology & immunology · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · XRAY DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. LOW Stock faded from $13.78 pre-print to $11.59 on 2026-08-14 — the narrative leg came and went, and the $11–12 shelf is what remains. Special situation · Medtech & diagnostics · Semi foundry & equipment catalyst · YAAS Youxin Technology Ltd LOW July's re-ignition failed: the 2026-07-14 RiverBit term sheet and 2026-07-15 Guangzhou AI agreement produced no higher low, and the response was a second reverse split (1-for-5, effective 2026-07-30). Two splits inside ten months now… Retail squeeze · Semi foundry & equipment · Crypto exchanges & financials analysed ·