Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.10 EPS

Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN) released its earnings results on Thursday. The semiconductor company reported $1.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.20 by $0.10, RTT News reports. Texas Instruments had a return on equity of 29.05% and a net margin of 31.60%. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.49 earnings per share. Texas Instruments updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.940-1.160 EPS.

Texas Instruments Trading Down 7.5 %

Shares of TXN stock opened at $185.52 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a quick ratio of 3.14 and a current ratio of 4.31. Texas Instruments has a 52-week low of $155.46 and a 52-week high of $220.38. The company has a market capitalization of $169.24 billion, a PE ratio of 34.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 0.98. The business’s fifty day moving average is $193.38 and its 200 day moving average is $199.46.

Texas Instruments Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, February 11th. Investors of record on Friday, January 31st will be given a $1.36 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 31st. This represents a $5.44 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.93%. Texas Instruments’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 101.12%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts recently commented on the company. Rosenblatt Securities reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $250.00 price objective on shares of Texas Instruments in a research note on Tuesday. Benchmark reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $230.00 price objective on shares of Texas Instruments in a research note on Friday. Wells Fargo & Company dropped their price objective on Texas Instruments from $215.00 to $208.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, January 13th. Barclays dropped their price objective on Texas Instruments from $200.00 to $180.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday. Finally, Robert W. Baird dropped their price objective on Texas Instruments from $200.00 to $175.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have assigned a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $209.20.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, Director Ronald Kirk sold 10,539 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, November 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $203.33, for a total value of $2,142,894.87. Following the transaction, the director now owns 14,323 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,912,295.59. This represents a 42.39 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. 0.68% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Texas Instruments Company Profile

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.