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 Down 2.8 %

Shares of NASDAQ:TXN opened at $177.71 on Wednesday. The stock has a market cap of $162.37 billion, a PE ratio of 19.44, a P/E/G ratio of 2.11 and a beta of 1.02. The company has a quick ratio of 4.24, a current ratio of 5.09 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48. Texas Instruments has a 12-month low of $144.46 and a 12-month high of $202.26. The business has a 50 day moving average of $162.36 and a 200-day moving average of $169.71.

Texas Instruments Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, August 16th. Investors of record on Monday, August 1st will be given a dividend of $1.15 per share. This represents a $4.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.59%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, July 29th. Texas Instruments's dividend payout ratio is 50.33%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

TXN has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Oppenheimer dropped their price target on shares of Texas Instruments from $220.00 to $200.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, July 21st. DZ Bank lowered shares of Texas Instruments from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and set a $150.00 target price on the stock. in a research report on Tuesday, July 5th. Stifel Nicolaus decreased their price target 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. StockNews.com raised Texas Instruments from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 1st. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their price objective on Texas Instruments from $175.00 to $160.00 in a report on Wednesday, July 20th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have assigned a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Texas Instruments has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $182.19.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, VP Mark T. Roberts sold 2,048 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $177.50, for a total transaction of $363,520.00. Following the sale, the vice president now owns 28,475 shares of the company's stock, valued at $5,054,312.50. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. In related news, Director Robert E. Sanchez sold 12,299 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $169.40, for a total transaction of $2,083,450.60. Following the sale, the director now owns 19,201 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,252,649.40. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, VP Mark T. Roberts sold 2,048 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.50, for a total transaction of $363,520.00. Following the transaction, the vice president now owns 28,475 shares of the company's stock, valued at $5,054,312.50. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 75,618 shares of company stock worth $13,329,800 in the last quarter. 0.54% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.