How to buy Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) stocks

Texas Instruments Incorporated is a semiconductors business based in the US. Texas Instruments Incorporated shares (TXN) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

Its last market close was $186.87 – a decrease of 2.46% over the previous week. Texas Instruments Incorporated employs 34,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $15.7 billion.

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Texas Instruments Incorporated stock price (NASDAQ: TXN)

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Texas Instruments Incorporated stocks at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-18.

Latest market close	$186.87
52-week range	$152.35 - $220.39
50-day moving average more info button	$201.68
200-day moving average more info button	$193.44
Wall St. target price	$208.83
PE ratio more info button	34.3866
Dividend yield more info button	$5.2 (2.89%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$5.38

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Texas Instruments Incorporated price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $184.47 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-3.72%
1 month (2024-11-21)	-6.93%
3 months (2024-09-20)	-9.26%
6 months (2024-06-21)	-5.66%

1 year (2023-12-21)	10.59%
2 years (2022-12-21)	15.97%
3 years (2021-12-21)	7.96%
5 years (2019-12-20)	64.41%

Is Texas Instruments Incorporated stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Texas Instruments Incorporated stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Texas Instruments Incorporated's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Texas Instruments Incorporated's P/E ratio

Texas Instruments Incorporated's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 34x. In other words, Texas Instruments Incorporated shares trade at around 34x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the stock or simply that they're over-valued.

Texas Instruments Incorporated's PEG ratio

Texas Instruments Incorporated's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.0173. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Texas Instruments Incorporated's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Texas Instruments Incorporated's EBITDA

Texas Instruments Incorporated's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $6.9 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Texas Instruments Incorporated's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Texas Instruments Incorporated financials

Revenue TTM	$15.7 billion
Operating margin TTM	37.34%
Gross profit TTM	$13.8 billion
Return on assets TTM	10.24%
Return on equity TTM	29.29%
Profit margin	31.6%
Book value	$18.93
Market Capitalization more info button	$168.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Texas Instruments Incorporated stock dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 97.77% of net profits

Recently Texas Instruments Incorporated has paid out, on average, around 100% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Texas Instruments Incorporated shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Texas Instruments Incorporated's case, that would currently equate to about $5.2 per share.

Texas Instruments Incorporated's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.

Texas Instruments Incorporated's most recent dividend payout was on 11 November 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their stocks by 30 October 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Texas Instruments Incorporated's stocks ever split?

Texas Instruments Incorporated's stocks were split on a 2:1 basis on 22 May 2000 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Texas Instruments Incorporated stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower stock price could have impacted the market appetite for Texas Instruments Incorporated stocks, which in turn could have impacted Texas Instruments Incorporated's stock price.

Texas Instruments Incorporated stock price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Texas Instruments Incorporated's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $152.3462 up to $220.385. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."

Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Texas Instruments Incorporated's is 0.98. This would suggest that Texas Instruments Incorporated's stocks are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Texas Instruments Incorporated overview

Texas Instruments Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Analog and Embedded Processing segments. The Analog segment offers power products to manage power requirements across various voltage levels, including battery-management solutions, DC/DC switching regulators, AC/DC and isolated controllers and converters, power switches, linear regulators, voltage references, and lighting products. This segment provides signal chain products that sense, condition, and measure signals to allow information to be transferred or converted for further processing and control, including amplifiers, data converters, interface products, motor drives, clocks, and logic 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. It provides DLP products primarily for use in project high-definition images; calculators; and application-specific integrated circuits.

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Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Texas Instruments Incorporated is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 0.202% of Texas Instruments Incorporated stocks are held by insiders and 90.954% by institutions. How many people work for Texas Instruments Incorporated?
Latest data suggests 34,000 work at Texas Instruments Incorporated. When does the fiscal year end for Texas Instruments Incorporated?
Texas Instruments Incorporated's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Texas Instruments Incorporated based?
Texas Instruments Incorporated's address is: 12500 TI Boulevard, Dallas, TX, United States, 75243 What is Texas Instruments Incorporated's ISIN number?
Texas Instruments Incorporated's international securities identification number is: US8825081040 What is Texas Instruments Incorporated's CUSIP number?
Texas Instruments Incorporated's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 882508104

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