** GlobalFoundries Inc's shares down 2.4% at $53.92 premarket after JP Morgan downgrades contract chipmaker to "neutral" from "overweight"
** Brokerage cuts PT to $56 from $65
** Specialty/mature node foundry manufacturing activity continues to decline broadly, potentially lagging semiconductor industry recovery trends by 1-2 quarters and is not adequately reflected in current consensus, JP Morgan says in research note
** JPM says it believes GFS's FinFET (Fin Shaped Field Effect Transistor) customers (AMD, Qualcomm, Marvell, etc) at 12nm-16nm nodes migrating away to lower geometry nodes, which GFS does not support, adding "the team may not be back filling these migrations as quickly as they are losing them"
** Now, 11 or 15 analysts rate GFS "buy" or "strong buy", rest have "hold" recommendations and their median PT is $69, per LSEG
** Stock down 8.8% YTD through Fri close and off ~15% over the past 12 months
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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