What Happened? <\/p>\n
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump’s Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.<\/p>\n
Semiconductor stocks trade at elevated multiples on future earnings, making them disproportionately sensitive to interest rates. Oil falling more than 3% and the 10-year Treasury yield dropping to 4.47% released the rate hike pressure that drove the sector’s worst week since 2020. The structural AI demand story never broke: Intel’s BofA double upgrade to $135 earlier in the day confirmed hyperscalers are placing real production orders at domestic foundries, and AI infrastructure capex commitments remained intact.<\/p>\n
The stock market overreacts to news, and big price drops can present good opportunities to buy high-quality stocks.<\/p>\n
Among others, the following stocks were impacted:<\/p>\n
Zooming In On Himax (HIMX) <\/p>\n
Himax\u2019s shares are extremely volatile and have had 43 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today\u2019s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.<\/p>\n
The previous big move we wrote about was 6 days ago when the stock dropped 9.4% on the news that the AVGO earnings overhang and the stronger-than-expected jobs report combined to drive one of the broadest global chip selloff of the year.<\/p>\n
The damage spread globally: South Korea’s Kospi fell 5.5%, with Samsung down 6.4% and SK Hynix nearly 10%. European names followed: ASML fell 3.8% and Infineon lost more than 6%. Broadcom’s guidance miss reset expectations for the pace of hyperscaler AI chip spending, removing the sector’s most visible growth catalyst. The 172,000-payroll print then eliminated near-term rate cut hopes and introduced rate hike risk by year end per CME FedWatch. Semiconductor valuations, built on aggressive multi-year earnings assumptions, are acutely sensitive to these discount rate movements.<\/p>\n
Himax is up 105% since the beginning of the year, but at $17.45 per share, it is still trading 27.9% below its 52-week high of $24.19 from June 2026. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Himax\u2019s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $1,225.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Happened? A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[2596,1312,12752,10133,166,203,3318],"class_list":["post-21455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nxp","tag-analog-semiconductors","tag-analysis-report","tag-himax","tag-impinj","tag-nxp","tag-nxp-semiconductors","tag-semiconductor-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}