Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) Given Consensus Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by Brokerages

Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) has been assigned an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the twenty-nine research firms that are covering the firm, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation, eight have given a hold recommendation, fifteen have issued a buy recommendation and two have given a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 1-year price target among brokerages that have covered the stock in the last year is $312.1154.

A number of research firms have recently weighed in on TXN. Benchmark increased their price objective on Texas Instruments from $315.00 to $360.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, July 23rd. Citigroup restated a “buy” rating on shares of Texas Instruments in a report on Tuesday, July 14th. Weiss Ratings upgraded Texas Instruments from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Evercore reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $330.00 target price on shares of Texas Instruments in a research note on Thursday, July 23rd. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein raised their price target on Texas Instruments from $250.00 to $290.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research note on Thursday, July 23rd.

Texas Instruments Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ TXN opened at $253.83 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $231.81 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.63, a PEG ratio of 1.43 and a beta of 1.33. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $280.72 and its 200 day simple moving average is $261.24. Texas Instruments has a fifty-two week low of $152.73 and a fifty-two week high of $334.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72, a quick ratio of 3.44 and a current ratio of 4.86.

Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 22nd. The semiconductor company reported $2.14 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.91 by $0.23. Texas Instruments had a net margin of 31.11% and a return on equity of 35.77%. The company had revenue of $5.46 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.26 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.41 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 22.8% on a year-over-year basis. Texas Instruments has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 2.230-2.570 EPS. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Texas Instruments will post 8.42 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Texas Instruments Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, August 11th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 31st were issued a $1.42 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, July 31st. This represents a $5.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.2%. Texas Instruments’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 86.45%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, VP Tsedeniya Abraham sold 7,000 shares of Texas Instruments stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $264.63, for a total value of $1,852,410.00. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president directly owned 23,181 shares in the company, valued at $6,134,388.03. The trade was a 23.19% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Company insiders own 0.60% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of TXN. MLG Wealth Management DBA Pine Grove Financial Group bought a new stake in shares of Texas Instruments during the second quarter valued at approximately $224,000. Range Advisory LLC bought a new stake in Texas Instruments in the 2nd quarter valued at $469,000. Cornerstone Financial Management LLC increased its holdings in shares of Texas Instruments by 34.4% in the second quarter. Cornerstone Financial Management LLC now owns 207 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $62,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. Corient Private Wealth LP lifted its position in shares of Texas Instruments by 2.6% in the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LP now owns 1,241,694 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $370,113,000 after buying an additional 31,728 shares in the last quarter. Finally, HORAN Wealth LLC bought a new position in Texas Instruments in the 2nd quarter valued at $291,000. Institutional investors own 84.99% of the company’s stock.

Texas Instruments Company Profile

Texas Instruments Inc (NASDAQ: TXN) is a global semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures analog and embedded processing chips. The company’s products are used across a wide range of end markets, including industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications and enterprise equipment. TI’s business emphasizes components that condition, convert, manage and move electrical signals—capabilities that are foundational to modern electronic systems.

TI’s product portfolio includes a broad array of analog integrated circuits—such as power management, amplifiers, data converters and interface devices—as well as embedded processors and microcontrollers used to control systems and run real-time applications.