
National Instruments Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells systems to engineers and scientists worldwide. It offers LabVIEW, a system design software for measurement, automation, and control; LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA, which are software add-ons to LabVIEW; LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite for wireless prototyping; LabWindows/CVI for creating test and control applications; and Measurement Studio consisting of measurement and automation add-on libraries, and additional tools for programmers. The company also provides software products, such as NI TestStand to test and measure applications in a manufacturing environment; NI VeriStand software to configure real-time testing applications; NI DIAdem, which provides technical data management, analysis, and report generation tools; NI InsightCM Enterprise for monitoring critical and ancillary rotating equipment; NI Multisim circuit design software; and NI SystemLink, a systems management software. In addition, it offers hardware products and related driver software, such as data acquisition, PXI chassis and controllers, modular instruments, image acquisition, motion control, distributed I/O, industrial communications interfaces, general purpose interface bus interfaces, embedded control hardware/software, and VME extension for instrumentation controllers. Further, the company provides NI semiconductor test systems; NI education platform comprising software, hardware, and courseware for students; software and hardware products for teaching; hardware and software maintenance services; and training and certification services. It serves advanced research, automotive, automated test equipment, consumer electronics, commercial aerospace, computers and electronics, continuous process manufacturing, education, government/defense, medical research/pharmaceutical, power/energy, semiconductors, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Industry Prepackaged software
Sub-IndustryElectronic Equipment & Instruments
SectorComputer and Technology
SymbolNASDAQ:NATI
CUSIP63651810
Phone512-683-0100
Debt
Debt-to-Equity RatioN/A
Current Ratio3.32%
Quick Ratio2.64%
Price-To-Earnings
Trailing P/E Ratio53.69
Forward P/E Ratio39.98
P/E GrowthN/A
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$1.29 billion
Price / Sales5.00
Cash Flow$1.4689 per share
Price / Cash33.48
Book Value$8.63 per share
Price / Book5.70
Profitability
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$0.94
Net Income$52.41 million
Net Margins4.06%
Return on Equity10.76%
Return on Assets8.03%
Miscellaneous
Employees7,412
Outstanding Shares131,200,000