While further economic weakness would be bad news for TXN, we are encouraged by Q1 guidance.
On the sentiment front, options players are attempting to call a bottom to TXN's decline.
Indeed, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (which TXN is component of) is up slightly on the year.
But TXN shares have already been seriously battered, and expectations have been ratcheting down.
According to Zacks.com, nine of the 24 analysts following TXN rate the shares a "buy" or better.
In the US, Citigroup, Texas Instruments ( TXN) and Eli Lilly ( LLY) will release their earnings today.
Other competitors in the technology sector include: Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), Xilinx (XLNX), and Texas Instruments (TXN).
Other competitors in the technology sector include: Advanced Micro (AMD), Intel (INTC), and Texas Instruments (TXN).
Olofsson gained that chip design expertise while spending 15 years at Analog Devices (ADI) and Texas Instruments (TXN).
Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of INTC, versus TSM and TXN.
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Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG), CSX (NYSE:CSX), Cree (NASDAQ:CREE) and Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) also report earnings after the close today.
Other competitors in the technology sector include: QUALCOMM (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), and Analog Devices (ADI).
Other competitors in the technology sector include: Intel (INTC), PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMCS), and Texas Instruments (TXN).
Texas Instruments (TXN) announced that it was narrowing its revenue forecasting, and increased the low end of its earnings guidance.
This means that the stock is valued very close to those of its competitors Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM), and Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN).
What used to be a five-chip solution has been whittled down to a single chip produced by Texas Instruments ( TXN).
Other major components of the Fund include Texas Instruments Inc ( TXN), Taiwan Semiconductor ( TSM) and Applied Materials ( AMAT).
This means that the stock is valued very close to those of its competitors Broadcom (BRCM), and Texas Instruments (TXN).
There are hot spots, however, with VMware ( VMW) and Texas Instruments (TXN) trading higher following better-than-expected quarterly earnings reports.
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After the close of trading yesterday, chip makers Texas Instruments (TXN) and Altera (ALTR) both cut their forecasts for the fourth quarter.
This morning, he raised his ratings on Texas Instruments (TXN), Xilinx (XLNX) and ON Semicondcutor (ONNN) to Overweight from Neutral.
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The majority of the bullish TXN call options are situated at the out-of-the-money 27.50 and 30 strikes in the September and October series.
My favorites this year were based on Texas Instruments (nasdaq: TXN - news - people )' mirror-flipping Digital Light Processing chips.
Last week, both Texas Instruments (TXN) and Altera (ALTR) cut their fourth quarter outlooks on weaker demand in the markets they supply chips to.
Kaplan agreed and his top picks-- Texas Instruments ( TXN) , Micron Technology ( MU) , Microsoft ( MSFT) , Compaq ( CPQ) reflect this.
He notes that Research In Motion had already passed on using Marvell chips in the PlayBook tablet, choosing instead a Texas Instruments (TXN) part.
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This prompted TXN to cut production and clear out excess inventory.
This skew toward out-of-the-money call open interest means that investors may not be expecting TXN to fall much further, creating additional downside risk for the equity.
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