Company Analysis

Chipmos Technologies Inc. (IMOS)

Nasdaq: IMOS · Semiconductors & Related Devices · Taiwan, TW · filing with the SEC since 2007
Grade4.8
◀ Past 6.1● Present 4.8▶ Future 3.6
1 est.

The grade of Chipmos Technologies Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.8/10
◀ Past6.130% of the headline
● Present4.840% of the headline
▶ Future3.630% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 76th percentile among 99 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Chipmos Technologies Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+2.1% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 49th percentile among 93 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chipmos Technologies Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from TWD 19 billion in fiscal 2015 to TWD 23 billion in fiscal 2024, up 2.1% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 22% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span2.1%bottom 19% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 27% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 13% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak22.1%top 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.4% a year. 29% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 64th percentile among 67 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2024-12-31, Chipmos Technologies Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 29% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 26% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.8/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
4.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 6%: 6¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 45%: owes 45¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 95 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31, Chipmos Technologies Inc. earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 6 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 45 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 36% of its family
  • return on equitytop 42% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 16% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 46% of 97 in its family; net margin 6.3%.

weight 45% of this tense · 46th percentile among 97 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chipmos Technologies Inc.'s standing among 97 graded names in its industry family: revenue of TWD 23 billion in fiscal 2024 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of 6.3% ranks in the top 40%; revenue growth of -6.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 32% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin6.3%top 40% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-6.1%bottom 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
5.4/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.4/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 78 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 78 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 78 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Chipmos Technologies Inc.'s leadership is put at 5.4 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 78 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

3.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 29% of 94 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 29th percentile among 94 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Chipmos Technologies Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2024): cash of TWD 15 billion against debt of TWD 14 billion leaves 3.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.8% of revenue (bottom 46%); a gross margin of 13% (bottom 14%); research spending of 5.1% of revenue (bottom 18%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets3.2%bottom 39% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue3.8%bottom 46% of its family
  • gross margin13.0%bottom 14% of its family
  • research spending against revenue5.1%bottom 18% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 37% of 93 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 37th percentile among 93 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chipmos Technologies Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2024: revenue grew -6.1% a year over the last three filed years against 2.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 45% of its family); the newest year grew 6.3% (bottom 42%); research spending grew 0.7% a year (bottom 27%); capital spending grew -4.8% a year (bottom 34%) (its annual reports). Chipmos Technologies Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-8.2 points a yearbottom 45% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth6.3%bottom 42% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending0.7%bottom 27% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-4.8%bottom 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.9/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 39% of 88 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 39th percentile among 88 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Chipmos Technologies Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of TWD 23 billion in fiscal 2024 came in 20.4% above the TWD 19 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 44% of its family); net income of TWD 1.4 billion against a prior three-year average of TWD 3.4 billion (bottom 31%); a net margin of 6.3% against 14% before (bottom 30%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace20.4%top 44% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-58%bottom 31% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-7.6 pointsbottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton IMOS · research, not advice