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 Price Performance

NASDAQ:TXN traded up $3.32 on Friday, hitting $185.38. The company had a trading volume of 4,152,306 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,033,784. The company has a market capitalization of $169.38 billion, a PE ratio of 20.17, a PEG ratio of 2.10 and a beta of 1.02. The company's fifty day moving average price is $162.64 and its 200-day moving average price is $169.83. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a current ratio of 5.09 and a quick ratio of 4.24. Texas Instruments has a 12-month low of $144.46 and a 12-month high of $202.26.

Texas Instruments Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, August 16th. Investors of record on Monday, August 1st will be issued a $1.15 dividend. This represents a $4.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 29th. Texas Instruments's payout ratio is presently 50.33%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

TXN has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. DZ Bank cut shares of Texas Instruments from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and set a $150.00 target price for the company. in a research note on Tuesday, July 5th. Benchmark initiated coverage on shares of Texas Instruments in a research note on Wednesday, June 29th. They issued a "buy" rating and a $205.00 target price for the company. KeyCorp lowered their target price on shares of Texas Instruments from $240.00 to $220.00 and set an "overweight" rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, April 27th. UBS Group lowered their target price on shares of Texas Instruments from $175.00 to $165.00 and set a "neutral" rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, July 27th. Finally, Oppenheimer decreased their price objective on shares of Texas Instruments from $220.00 to $200.00 and set an "outperform" rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, July 21st. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have issued a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $182.19.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, VP Kyle M. Flessner sold 43,068 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Friday, July 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $178.91, for a total value of $7,705,295.88. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now owns 66,822 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $11,955,124.02. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. In other news, VP Kyle M. Flessner sold 43,068 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on 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 sale, the vice president now owns 66,822 shares of the company's stock, valued at $11,955,124.02. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, Director Pamela H. Patsley sold 12,299 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Friday, July 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $176.64, for a total transaction of $2,172,495.36. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 32,088 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $5,668,024.32. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders sold 57,415 shares of company stock valued at $10,241,311. 0.54% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.