GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ:GFS) Reaches New 52-Week High After Earnings Beat

GlobalFoundries Inc. (NASDAQ:GFS)’s stock price reached a new 52-week high during trading on Thursday after the company announced better than expected quarterly earnings. The company traded as high as $48.88 and last traded at $48.6610, with a volume of 7694911 shares. The stock had previously closed at $41.90.

The company reported $0.55 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.47 by $0.08. The firm had revenue of $1.83 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.80 billion. GlobalFoundries had a return on equity of 6.86% and a net margin of 13.05%.The company’s revenue was up .0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.46 EPS. GlobalFoundries has set its Q1 2026 guidance at 0.300-0.400 EPS.

GlobalFoundries News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting GlobalFoundries this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q4 earnings beat and upbeat guidance — GFS reported EPS $0.55 vs. $0.47 expected and revenue $1.83B vs. $1.80B expected, and provided Q1 2026 EPS guidance of $0.30–$0.40; the beat and guidance helped push the stock to a one-year high. GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc (GFS) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Highlights
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst upgrades and higher price targets — Needham raised its PT to $55 (buy) and Robert W. Baird raised its PT to $60 (outperform), signaling increased analyst conviction in growth and margin expansion. Needham price target raise Baird price target raise
• Positive Sentiment: Sell-side conviction on margin improvement — A Seeking Alpha piece reiterates a Buy with a $54.52 target, citing margin-accretive growth, strategic acquisitions (silicon photonics, power management) and exposure to AI/data-center markets. GlobalFoundries: Margin-Accretive Growth Coming Fast
• Positive Sentiment: Investor interest and bullish derivative flow — Unusually large options activity with ~15,176 calls traded (≈+139% vs. typical) points to speculative/hedged bullish bets by traders. GFS Trading Higher After Earnings Beat
• Positive Sentiment: Corporate outreach on growth technologies — GFS scheduled an investor webinar on silicon photonics and advanced packaging, underscoring management’s focus on higher-margin, strategic end markets. Investor webinar on silicon photonics
• Neutral Sentiment: Mixed analyst action — Wedbush raised its PT to $50 but kept a “neutral” rating; that is less bullish than other firms and tempers consensus upside. Wedbush price target note
• Neutral Sentiment: Short-interest reporting appears unreliable/zero — multiple filings show “0 shares” and NaN changes, which likely reflects data/reporting quirks rather than a meaningful short position; treat these figures cautiously.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on GFS shares. Bank of America increased their price objective on shares of GlobalFoundries from $33.00 to $37.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 4th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “sell (d)” rating on shares of GlobalFoundries in a report on Thursday, January 22nd. Citigroup increased their price target on shares of GlobalFoundries from $42.00 to $49.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price objective on shares of GlobalFoundries from $40.00 to $35.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, November 13th. Finally, Robert W. Baird upped their target price on GlobalFoundries from $40.00 to $60.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eleven have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $46.13.

Institutional Trading of GlobalFoundries

Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. WealthCollab LLC raised its stake in GlobalFoundries by 674.7% during the 4th quarter. WealthCollab LLC now owns 705 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,000 after buying an additional 614 shares during the last quarter. True Wealth Design LLC grew its holdings in shares of GlobalFoundries by 216.7% in the fourth quarter. True Wealth Design LLC now owns 795 shares of the company’s stock worth $28,000 after acquiring an additional 544 shares during the period. Clearstead Advisors LLC increased its position in GlobalFoundries by 91.9% during the third quarter. Clearstead Advisors LLC now owns 808 shares of the company’s stock valued at $29,000 after acquiring an additional 387 shares during the last quarter. First Horizon Corp bought a new position in GlobalFoundries in the third quarter valued at about $33,000. Finally, Covestor Ltd boosted its position in GlobalFoundries by 57.6% in the fourth quarter. Covestor Ltd now owns 955 shares of the company’s stock worth $33,000 after purchasing an additional 349 shares during the last quarter.

GlobalFoundries Price Performance

The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $40.48 and a 200-day simple moving average of $36.49. The firm has a market capitalization of $27.09 billion, a PE ratio of 30.81, a PEG ratio of 2.00 and a beta of 1.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13, a current ratio of 2.62 and a quick ratio of 2.24.

GlobalFoundries Company Profile

GlobalFoundries, Inc (NASDAQ: GFS) is a leading contract semiconductor manufacturer that provides wafer fabrication and related services to semiconductor companies and systems manufacturers. The company operates as a pure-play foundry, producing integrated circuits across a range of process technologies for customers in markets such as automotive, communications, consumer electronics, industrial, and aerospace. Its service offering spans process development, manufacturing, test and packaging support, and design enablement including process design kits (PDKs) and intellectual property (IP) libraries to help customers bring designs to production.

GlobalFoundries focuses on a portfolio of differentiated and specialty process nodes, offering technologies for radio-frequency (RF) and wireless, analog and mixed-signal, power management, embedded non-volatile memory, and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process families.