TSMC (TSM) SVP Yeap Choh Fei Buys 54 Shares

What Happened
Yeap Choh Fei, Senior Vice President at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM), purchased 54 common shares on 2026-09-07 in an open market/private purchase reported as a purchase (Code P). The transaction price was $76.20 per share, for a total reported value of $4,115. Footnotes indicate the purchase was made through the issuer’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with the administrator purchasing shares on the filer’s behalf; the US dollar price was translated from NT$2,404.3453 at NT$31.552 = US$1.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-09-07; Filing date: 2026-09-09 (filed within the normal reporting window).
• Price: $76.20 per share (translated from NT$2,404.3453 at NT$31.552/USD).
• Shares purchased: 54; total value: $4,115.
• Ownership after transaction: not specified in the filing.
• Notable footnotes: F1/F3 — purchase made and held under the issuer’s ESPP (administrator bought shares on filer’s behalf); F2 — price translation from New Taiwan dollars; F4 in the filing set refers to LTI-trust purchases the filer may control (not necessarily this specific trade).

Context
ESPP purchases are routine compensation/benefit transactions and commonly occur on a preset schedule/ad-hoc payroll deductions; they are often viewed differently than discretionary open-market buys by executives. This is a small-dollar ESPP purchase and should be interpreted as routine participation in the company’s employee plan rather than a decisive indicator of insider sentiment.