Texas Instruments - TXN Stock Forecast, Price & News

Texas Instruments Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers worldwide. It operates in two segments, Analog and Embedded Processing. The Analog segment offers power products to manage power requirements in various levels using battery-management solutions, DC/DC switching regulators, AC/DC and isolated controllers and converters, power switches, linear regulators, voltage supervisors, voltage references, and lighting products. This segment also provides signal chain products that sense, condition, and measure signals to allow information to be transferred or converted for further processing and control for use in end markets, including amplifiers, data converters, interface products, motor drives, clocks, and sensing products. The Embedded Processing segment offers microcontrollers that are used in electronic equipment; digital signal processors for mathematical computations; and applications processors for specific computing activity. This segment offers products for use in various markets, such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment, enterprise systems, and calculators and other. The company also provides DLP products primarily for use in projectors to create high-definition images; calculators; and application-specific integrated circuits. It markets and sells its semiconductor products through direct sales and distributors, as well as through its website. Texas Instruments Incorporated was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Texas Instruments Trading Up 3.0 %

NASDAQ:TXN opened at $183.12 on Thursday. The firm has a market capitalization of $167.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.04, a PEG ratio of 2.11 and a beta of 1.02. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a quick ratio of 4.24 and a current ratio of 5.09. Texas Instruments has a one year low of $144.46 and a one year high of $202.26. The company's 50 day moving average price is $162.36 and its 200 day moving average price is $169.71.

Texas Instruments Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, August 16th. Investors of record on Monday, August 1st will be issued a dividend of $1.15 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 29th. This represents a $4.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.51%. Texas Instruments's payout ratio is 50.33%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have weighed in on TXN shares. Stifel Nicolaus lowered their target price on shares of Texas Instruments from $180.00 to $170.00 and set a "hold" rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. Credit Suisse Group cut their target price on shares of Texas Instruments from $200.00 to $195.00 in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. KeyCorp cut their price objective on Texas Instruments from $240.00 to $220.00 and set an "overweight" rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. Morgan Stanley increased their target price on Texas Instruments from $155.00 to $160.00 and gave the company an "underweight" rating in a report on Wednesday, July 27th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group reduced their price objective on Texas Instruments from $220.00 to $203.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have given a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $182.19.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, VP Hagop H. Kozanian sold 5,904 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $170.23, for a total transaction of $1,005,037.92. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 44,885 shares in the company, valued at approximately $7,640,773.55. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. In related news, VP Hagop H. Kozanian sold 5,904 shares of Texas Instruments stock in a transaction on Friday, May 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $170.23, for a total transaction of $1,005,037.92. Following the sale, the vice president now owns 44,885 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $7,640,773.55. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, VP Kyle M. Flessner sold 43,068 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Friday, July 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $178.91, for a total transaction of $7,705,295.88. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now directly owns 66,822 shares of the company's stock, valued at $11,955,124.02. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders sold 75,618 shares of company stock valued at $13,329,800. Company insiders own 0.54% of the company's stock.