Two Investment Firms Urge WUS Printed Circuit to Improve Shareholder Value

By Sherry Qin

Two investment firms have called out WUS Printed Circuit on its low valuation, urging WUS to enhance its shareholder value through ways including taking the Taiwan-based company private.

London-based activist investor Palliser Capital, which holds a 4.3% stake in WUS, said Monday that it is "the most undervalued artificial-intelligence [printed circuit board] player," as its shares trade at a discount of more than 70% to its net asset value, its widest discount in five years.

WUS, a manufacturer of printed circuit boards, has shifted its focus to more complex circuit boards used in AI data centers from motherboards and telecom products.

Its shares rose 10% on Monday to 171.50 New Taiwan dollars, or $5.42, taking its market capitalization to 31.34 billion New Taiwan dollars.

The low valuation comes despite WUS ownership of a high-quality AI printed circuit board platform and an 11.3% stake in WUS Printed Circuit (Kunshan), a holding company that Palliser values at more than three times the Taiwan-listed company's market capitalization.

WUS Kunshan is a supplier of boards to Nvidia and Citi analysts have said that it could be "the first and largest beneficiary" of Nvidia's recently launched inference server racks, which require more boards per rack and ultracomplex designs.

Driven by both volume expansion and higher average prices, the AI PCB total addressable market could reach $96 billion by 2030, Daiwa analysts said in a recent note.

Palliser also outlined other options for the Taiwan-listed company to improve its shareholder value, including selling some or all of its stake in WUS Kunshan.

Last week, Singapore-based investment firm Metrica Partners, which holds around 1.5% of the Taiwan-listed company's shares, published an open letter, calling on the tech company to address its discount of around 80% to its net asset value.

"A well-governed company does not allow its shares to trade at a fraction of the value of a single listed asset on its balance sheet, year after year, without explanation," said Damian L. Edwards, Metrica's chief investment officer.

WUS Printed Circuit didn't respond to a request for comment.

Write to Sherry Qin at sherry.qin@wsj.com

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June 15, 2026 06:49 ET (10:49 GMT)