GFS GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (GFS) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Technology. Listed on NASDAQ. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (Theil–Sen, log-price), then projected 3 months. If this ticker has no settled sample yet, treat the numbers as a geometric read, not a track record. Information only, not financial advice.
Broken down below
Price has closed below the channel. Support has failed — treat the buy target with caution.
Read from the last 2 years of history we hold: rising, drifting +16% a year. The target of US$91.48 sits above the nearest ceiling (US$56.08), so reaching it means breaking a line this stock has repeatedly turned at. What would overturn this: a close below US$49.30 — the floor of the channel being read — after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 2 years read from
- US$49.30 – US$56.08 Rising channel, +16% a year
- Position in that channel
- -22% below the floor of it — 0% is the floor, 100% the ceiling
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -52% from US$89.7326 May 2026 → 15 Sept 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This company6 of 24 Semiconductors peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 7%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 76% of 44 comparable falls came back, typically in 199 days measured on its own peer group
The trend broke in May 2026: price fell 52% from 89.73 to 42.77 by September 2026, and has regained 7% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. The wire that week: “IBM Receiving $1B Award For Quantum Chip Foundry; GlobalFoundries To Receive $375M”. Falls like it have resolved: falls of about 52% here have come back to the old high 76% of the time (44 comparable falls), typically in 199 days. On that record the fall is treated as temporary, and the trend lines are fitted to the regime it created rather than through it. Priced from that: 91.48 within 195 days, reached 76% of the time in 44 comparable falls — about 0.51% a day held.
The buy and sell prices below are priced off this recovery rather than off the channel: it is the better expected return per day held once each is charged for the odds of working.
Reported at the time: IBM Receiving $1B Award For Quantum Chip Foundry; GlobalFoundries To Receive $375M — 21 May 2026
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (2 years)
- Lower trend line (2 years)
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$45.84
level as at 18 Sept 2026
Our target
US$91.48
by 1 Apr 2027
Projected move
99.6%
gross, before costs
Price sits between our buy level and our target.
The trend broke in May 2026: price fell 52% from 89.73 to 42.77 by September 2026, and has regained 7% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. The wire that week: “IBM Receiving $1B Award For Quantum Chip Foundry; GlobalFoundries To Receive $375M”. Falls like it have resolved: falls of about 52% here have come back to the old high 76% of the time (44 comparable falls), typically in 199 days. On that record the fall is treated as temporary, and the trend lines are fitted to the regime it created rather than through it. Priced from that: 91.48 within 195 days, reached 76% of the time in 44 comparable falls — about 0.51% a day held. The entry is today's price, not a dip level: the fall is behind it and the evidence measured is what these recoveries paid from here, so waiting for a lower entry would be waiting for something the record does not say is coming. Of 44 comparable falls in Semiconductors, 76% were back at the old high within 199 days of the low, and the ones that got there gave up about 21% along the way — so expect to be underwater before it works. The target is the median level they regained, which is short of the old high of 89.73 because not all of them saw it again. It is a prediction and it is revised the same way any other is: if price loses its 50-day trend and stays below it, the recovery is treated as failed rather than delayed.
- Upper line touches
- 4
- Lower line touches
- 4
- Fit confidence
- 38%
- Fitted
- 18 Sept 2026
About GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. operates as a prominent global semiconductor foundry, specializing in the creation of integrated circuits. These vital components are instrumental in powering a wide array of ubiquitous electronic devices. The company's diverse portfolio includes the manufacturing of various semiconductor devices, such as microprocessors, mobile application processors, baseband and network processors, radio frequency modems, microcontrollers, power management units, and microelectromechanical systems. Additionally, it offers comprehensive wafer fabrication services and advanced technological solutions. Established in 2009, the firm maintains its headquarters in Malta, New York.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- CEO
- Timothy Graham Breen
- Employees
- 14,000
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings — that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
- Valuation
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$25.76B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 1.77
- Avg volume
- 4.57M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
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- 52-week range
- 31.59-92.55
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
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- PEG
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- Price / sales
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- Price / book
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Gross margin
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- Operating margin
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- Net margin
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- Current ratio
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- Quick ratio
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- Debt / equity
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- Interest cover
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Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.