Yeap Choh Fei 4

What Happened
Yeap Choh Fei, Senior Vice President at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC, ticker: TSM), purchased 53 common shares on 2026-07-07 at $76.62 per share, a total cost of about $4,061. The purchase was made through the issuer’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), which is a purchase (P) transaction — a company-plan purchase rather than a sale.

Key Details

• Transaction date and price: 2026-07-07, 53 shares at $76.62 each (total ~$4,061). Price shown in USD was translated from NT$2,462.6361 at NT$32.143 = US$1. (Footnote F2)
• Method: ESPP purchase executed by the plan administrator on filer’s behalf (Footnotes F1, F3).
• Shares owned after transaction: Not specified in the filing.
• Other footnotes: Filing also lists a note about shares purchased by a trust under the LTI Bonus Plan over which the filer has investment control (Footnote F4) — this refers to other holdings, not this ESPP purchase.
• Filing timeliness: Reported on 2026-07-09 for a 2026-07-07 transaction; this appears to be filed within the standard 2-business-day Form 4 window.

Context
This was a modest ESPP purchase rather than an open-market individual buy order; ESPP purchases are routinely made under pre-set plan terms and are often less informative about short-term sentiment than direct market buys. Still, purchases by officers can be seen as a routine, small-scale investment in company stock.