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GlobalWafers Co Ltd (6488.TWO) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for 6488.TWO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-10-06

DayWeekMonth3 months
6488.TWO+2.1%+27.5%+30.0%0.0%
Advanced Materials+1.0%+14.7%+11.5%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+0.8%+7.0%+11.0%—

Against the index: 20.5 pts ahead on the week, 19.0 pts ahead on the month; against its Advanced Materials sleeve 18.5 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
Who it is priced against Semiconductors · Taiwan · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Semiconductors · Taiwan

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against 6488.TWO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — GlobalWafers Co Ltd

6488.TWO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
GlobalWafers grows silicon ingots and cuts them into wafers, the flat discs that chipmakers etch to build transistors. Its range covers polished, epitaxial, annealed, diffusion, SOI, FZ and compound wafers, sold to foundries and device makers worldwide. It also offers technical and management consulting tied to its wafer processes. The company is based in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.
Where it sits in the stack
In our index of the AI build-out supply chain, GlobalWafers sits in the materials stage that comes before any chip design or fabrication step. Every wafer a foundry processes into logic or memory starts as a blank from a supplier such as this one, so it is a constraint on how much capacity the rest of the chain can turn into finished chips.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet has not placed this name in a peer group yet; the market names SUMCO as the comparable large wafer producer.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
GlobalWafers is a constituent of Rubin, the diary's index of the AI build-out supply chain. It does not carry a Closelooknet score and the diary has not quoted it in an edition so far.
What the diary watches
Whether wafer demand tracks the pace at which foundries add new capacity for logic and memory used in AI chips.

GlobalWafers Co Ltd (6488.TWO) trades on the TWO exchange in Taiwan. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.64%, semi-annual · last 5.70 TWD on 2026-07-16

Dividends and capital return

What 6488.TWO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 7.70 TWD per share · a 0.64% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year −30.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 11.00 TWD per share
  • Last distribution 5.70 TWD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-16
  • By calendar year 2024: 19.00 TWD · 2025: 13.00 TWD · 2026: 5.70 TWD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-01-19

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is GlobalWafers Co Ltd (6488.TWO)?

GlobalWafers Co Ltd trades as 6488.TWO on the TWO exchange (Taiwan) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is 6488.TWO in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — GlobalWafers Co Ltd is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-10-07.

Where does 6488.TWO trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +25.5% vs the 50-day and +62.7% vs the 200-day average, 24.4% below the 52-week high and +263.6% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is 6488.TWO doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month GlobalWafers Co Ltd is +30.0% against +11.0% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 19.0 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-10-06. Its Advanced Materials sleeve is +11.5% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does GlobalWafers Co Ltd compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Semiconductors · Taiwan), GlobalWafers Co Ltd (6488.TWO) sits 24.4% below its 52-week high, 25.5% above its 50-day average; ASE Industrial Holding Co Ltd ADR (ASX) is 0.8% below, Global Unichip Corp (3443.TW) is 3.8% below, ChipMOS Technologies (8150.TW) is 4.1% below. Put any of them next to 6488.TWO in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

What does GlobalWafers Co Ltd do?

GlobalWafers grows silicon ingots and cuts them into wafers, the flat discs that chipmakers etch to build transistors. Its range covers polished, epitaxial, annealed, diffusion, SOI, FZ and compound wafers, sold to foundries and device makers worldwide. It also offers technical and management consulting tied to its wafer processes. Closelooknet has not placed this name in a peer group yet; the market names SUMCO as the comparable large wafer producer.

Where does GlobalWafers Co Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

In our index of the AI build-out supply chain, GlobalWafers sits in the materials stage that comes before any chip design or fabrication step. Every wafer a foundry processes into logic or memory starts as a blank from a supplier such as this one, so it is a constraint on how much capacity the rest of the chain can turn into finished chips. GlobalWafers is a constituent of Rubin, the diary's index of the AI build-out supply chain. It does not carry a Closelooknet score and the diary has not quoted it in an edition so far.

Does GlobalWafers Co Ltd pay a dividend?

GlobalWafers Co Ltd has paid 7.70 TWD per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 0.64% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 5.70 TWD on 2026-07-16. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for 6488.TWO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Semiconductors. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.