Assessing Texas Instruments – Balancing Technicals with Fundamentals

By Blake Campbell • Thursday, September 04 10:11 • Permanent Link

Texas Instruments logged a -5.9% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $184.12 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 0.0%. TXN's trading volume is 2,759,489 compared to the stock's average volume of 6,427,182.

Anyone interested in buying TXN should be aware of the facts below:

Texas Instruments's current price is 296.9% above its Graham number of $46.39, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Texas Instruments has moved -2.9% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 17.2%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 5.46, Texas Instruments has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 33.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
TXN has a forward P/E ratio of 31.3 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $5.88 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 10.2 compared to its sector average of 4.19
Texas Instruments Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers in the United States, China, rest of Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Japan, and internationally.
Based in Dallas, the company has 34,000 full time employees and a market cap of $167.39 Billion. Texas Instruments currently returns an annual dividend yield of 2.7%.

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