This Week in the Chain · Oct 29, 2026

This Week in the Chain — Oct 29, 2026

Here is the week in one line. Vertiv +25.0%, Kingsemi -19.3%. Nothing above is an estimate. If a number is wrong, the data underneath it is public and you can prove it.

What it touches

A price chart never tells you who is upstream or downstream of a move. Here is who Vertiv (+25.0%) is connected to.

  1. 1CoreWeaveCustomer
  2. 2MicrosoftCustomer
  3. 3OracleCustomer

Top gainers

Here is what actually moved. Since Oct 25, 2026, 371 companies repriced by 1% or more.

  1. 1Vertiv (US-listed)$74.8B → $93.5B+25.0%
  2. 2Ultra Clean Holdings (US-listed)$2.0B → $2.5B+23.4%
  3. 3Vicor (US-listed)$8.1B → $10.0B+23.2%
  4. 4Win Semiconductors$6.3B → $7.7B+22.3%
  5. 5Applied Optoelectronics (US-listed)$5.7B → $7.0B+21.8%

Top decliners

  1. 1Kingsemi$8.1B → $6.5B-19.3%
  2. 2Beijing Huafeng Test & Control (AccoTest)$8.3B → $6.7B-19.2%
  3. 3Giantec Semiconductor$3.1B → $2.6B-16.3%
  4. 4Shengyi Technology$40.4B → $34.4B-14.9%
  5. 5AMEC (Advanced Micro-Fabrication)$38.4B → $32.7B-14.8%

Chokepoint spotlight

IQE: Leading epitaxial compound-semiconductor wafer maker (GaAs, GaN, InP). A fixed fact about the chain, not fresh news.

  1. 1Skyworks SolutionsDepends on it
  2. 2QorvoDepends on it
  3. 3BroadcomDepends on it
  4. 4Lumentum HoldingsDepends on it
  5. 5TSMCDepends on it

A standing feature that rotates weekly, not news.

Data coverage: 430/615 companies priced; 435 with SEC financials. Market data as of 2026-10-29; report generated 2026-10-29. Every figure is computed from the wafergraph dataset — live market caps are price times SEC share count, nothing smoothed. Supplier and customer links are researched company by company, and only researched links are named. Educational/informational only, not investment advice.

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