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Posted Jun 12th 2009 8:00AM by Steven Mallas
Filed under: Earnings reports, Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Texas Instruments (TXN), Technology
As expected, chip maker National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM), whose colleagues include Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), and Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), lost money during its fourth quarter.
However, the loss wasn't as bad as feared. According to Trey Thoelcke's earnings preview, National Semiconductor could have lost up to 42 cents per share. Thankfully, according to the company's press release posted on Thursday after the bell, the business only lost 28 cents per share.
How thankful should we be? I must point out that the company earned 34 cents per share in last year's Q4 period. Also, sales dropped 39% during the past three months. Not only that, but cash from operations from the full fiscal year was down, as was the gross margin on a year-over-year basis (the gross margin increased, however, on a sequential basis compared to the third quarter, so that was a bright spot).
Continue reading National Semiconductor loses money in Q4, but what are the positives?
Posted Jun 9th 2009 4:09PM by Jon Ogg
Filed under: American Express (AXP), Procter and Gamble (PG), Texas Instruments (TXN), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), Suntech Power Hldgs ADS (STP)

Today was one of those days where the overall market direction never felt entrenched nor felt certain. The news of ten banks
getting to pay back TARP funds created mixed reactions, as the news was expected. Positive guidance from a chip leader may have kept the wheels on the cart for technology stocks. Oil also spent much of the day flirting with the $70 per barrel mark.
With the swings we are seeing from positive to negative, it is just further evidence that there is a battleground between bulls and bears forming. So far the bulls are managing to keep the high ground. Here are today's unofficial closing bell levels:
DJIA
S&P500
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Top Analyst UpgradesTop Analyst DowngradesContinue reading Closing Bell: Bulls hold the high ground (AXP, STP, PG, TXN, SQNM, MRVL)
Posted Jun 9th 2009 8:00AM by Steven Mallas
Filed under: Forecasts, Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Technology
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), whose colleagues include Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), gave shareholders quite a boost in morale on Monday. The chip company issued a nice outlook for the bottom line.
Here are the stats. Net sales in Q2 should come in between $2.3 billion and $2.5 billion versus the old guidance of between $1.95 billion and $2.4 billion. The bottom line should come in between 14 cents per share and 22 cents per share, versus previous estimates of between 1 cent per share and 15 cents per share.
Continue reading Texas Instruments issues optimistic new guidance
Posted Apr 25th 2009 3:40PM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings reports, Yahoo! (YHOO), eBay (EBAY), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Amazon.com (AMZN), International Business Machines (IBM), 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), Schlumberger Limited (SLB), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Bank of America (BAC), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Merck and Co (MRK), Hasbro Inc (HAS)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Bank of America, Amazon, Coke, eBay, UPS, Yahoo!, IBM, and more
Posted Apr 21st 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer
Filed under: Market matters, International Business Machines (IBM), Bank of America (BAC), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Oracle Corp (ORCL), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Wells Fargo (WFC), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the good developments in the space got lost yesterday amid all the hubbub over banks. We are so focused on the endless one-time gains at
Bank of America (NYSE:
BAC) (
Cramer's Take) that made the quarter look better than it should that we forgot about some other obvious positives that were occurring right before our eyes. I am talking about tech, and tech mergers and tech earnings.
No, I am not minimizing the problems of the banks -- did anyone think that Ken Lewis would choose to show a loss if he had a chance, as the bears seemed to urge? I am saying that when you have both
Oracle (NASDAQ:
ORCL) (
Cramer's Take) and
IBM (NYSE:
IBM) (
Cramer's Take) interested in something that we thought was worth very little just a few weeks ago --
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:
JAVA) (
Cramer's Take) -- when you have
Broadcom (NASDAQ:
BRCM) (
Cramer's Take) interested in buying
Emulex (NYSE:
ELX) (
Cramer's Take) -- another left-for-dead tech company -- and when you have
Texas Instruments (NYSE:
TXN) (
Cramer's Take) saying inventories are lean, mostly because of Asian demand, you are not getting a picture of despair.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Don't miss this moment in tech
Posted Apr 8th 2009 11:10AM by Eric Buscemi
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, DaimlerChrysler (DAI), Texas Instruments (TXN), Analyst initiations, Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT), Garmin Ltd (GRMN)
Analyst upgrades:
- Goldman upgraded shares of Daimler (NYSE: DAI) to Buy from Neutral as it believes the company's restructuring and greater visibility on its outlook could be positive for the stock.
- JP Morgan upgraded shares of Goodyear Tire (NYSE: GT) and Cooper Tire (NYSE: CTB) to Overweight from Neutral on expectations that industry volumes will improve in the coming quarters.
- Friedman Billings upgraded Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) following the company's better than expected preliminary Q1 results. The firm maintains a $17 target on shares.
- Ruby Tuesday (NYSE: RT) was upgraded to Buy from Hold at KeyBanc.
- Portfolio Recovery (NASDAQ: PRAA) was raised to Buy from Neutral at SunTrust.
Continue reading Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: DAI, GT, DB, FIATY, TXN ...
Posted Mar 20th 2009 10:10AM by Jim Cramer
Filed under: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Intel (INTC), Market matters, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Kellogg Co (K), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), General Mills (GIS), Oracle Corp (ORCL), Nucor Corp (NUE), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), BHP Billiton Ltd ADR (BHP), Freep't McMoRan Copper (FCX), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says this market is short-term overbought -- any other reasons to buy can wait. The playbook says, "Buy weak-dollar plays." But does that mean only weak-dollar commodity plays, as in flee-out-of-dollar-into-oil plays? Or weak-dollar plays like
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:
JNJ) (
Cramer's Take) and
General Mills (NYSE:
GIS) (
Cramer's Take)? Or weak-dollar plays like gold? Or tech plays because
Intel (NASDAQ:
INTC) (
Cramer's Take) and
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:
HPQ) (
Cramer's Take) are hugely international?
Or do you bother doing anything at all up here because we are plus-seven on the oscillator and every time we have gotten this overbought in this market, we have come crashing down?
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Lock in some profits
Posted Mar 14th 2009 12:40PM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings reports, McDonald's (MCD), Citigroup Inc. (C), Kroger Co (KR), Staples Inc (SPLS), Smithfield Foods (SFD), Texas Instruments (TXN), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Citigroup, Kroger, Staples, J. Crew, National Semiconductor and more
Posted Feb 1st 2009 9:40AM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings reports, Yahoo! (YHOO), Pfizer (PFE), Home Depot (HD), McDonald's (MCD), American Express (AXP), Best Buy (BBY), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Texas Instruments (TXN), Valero Energy (VLO), Eaton Corp (ETN), Delta Air Lines (DAL)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Yahoo!, McDonald's, American Express, Pfizer, Delta and others
Posted Jan 29th 2009 9:00AM by Steven Mallas
Filed under: Earnings reports, Nokia Corp. (NOK), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Technology
Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), which competes with Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), reported Q1 numbers after the bell on Wednesday. The data continue to show that all is not well with the world.
Demand for Qualcomm's products is down, and as far as management is concerned, earnings visibility just isn't in the cards due to the financial mess and its effect on the company's marketable securities. Talk about not inspiring confidence.
For the first quarter, Qualcomm delivered pro forma earnings per share of $0.31. That represented an ugly drop of 40% on a year-over-year basis. Revenues inched up 3% to $2.5 billion. The top line beat expectations, but the bottom line didn't come anywhere close as Wall Street was counting on $0.47 per share. Then again, what did any of us expect? It's tough out there in the world.
Continue reading Qualcomm: I wouldn't buy it
Posted Jan 27th 2009 4:15PM by Jon Ogg
Filed under: Earnings reports, Deals, Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), American Express (AXP), Texas Instruments (TXN), Valero Energy (VLO)

Today Wall Street managed yet another day of gains. It seems that the confirmation of Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary offset all of the negative data. Financials also had a decent day that seemed to trump all of the dismal earnings announcements from other giant companies.
Here are today's unofficial closing bell levels:
DJIA: 8,174.73 +58.70 +0.72%
NASDAQ: 1,504.90 +15.44 +1.04%
S&P 500: 845.70 +9.13 +1.09%
Top Analyst UpgradesTop Analyst DowngradesTexas Instruments Inc. (NYSE:
TXN) rose after the chip maker gave earnings that were only "about as disappointing" as expected. The company is trimming costs and cutting about 3,400 jobs. Shares were up over 4% at $15.39 before the close.
Continue reading Closing Bell: Stocks rise on Geithner's confirmation; TXN, NFLX, AXP, VLO, CVTX
Posted Jan 27th 2009 8:31AM by Melly Alazraki
Filed under: Earnings reports, Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), International Business Machines (IBM), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Citigroup Inc. (C), American Express (AXP), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Corning Inc (GLW), Verizon Communications (VZ), duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD), Amgen Inc (AMGN), Texas Instruments (TXN), EMC Corp (EMC), Delta Air Lines (DAL)
DuPont (NYSE: DD) reported Tuesday morning, saying it
swung to a fourth-quarter loss. DuPont reported a loss of $629 million, or 70 cents per share, but excluding a restructuring charge the loss is 28 cents per share. Revenue fell 16% to $6.07 billion. Results were below analyst estimates of a loss of 24 cents per share on revenue of $6.17 billion.
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) also reported Tuesday morning, saying it
earned $1.24 billion, or 43 cents a share, in the fourth quarter. On an adjusted basis, Verizon earned 61 cents a share compared to 62 cents a share a year ago. Sales were $24.6 billion. Verizon missed estimates only slightly and shares gained 1.6% in premarket trading.
Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) is reporting after the close today and
analysts expect earnings of 13 cents a share for the period, on $1.4 billion in net revenue, according to FactSet Research. Shares indicated higher in premarket trading.
Continue reading Stocks in the news: DD, VZ, YHOO, AXP, TXN, IBM, SI, VMW, EMC, AMGN ...
Posted Jan 26th 2009 11:57AM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Texas Instruments (TXN)
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) is scheduled to discuss fourth-quarter and full-year 2008 results today in a conference call at 4:30 PM Eastern, hosted by Kevin March, senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Ron Slaymaker, vice president and head of Investor Relations. Catch the live webcast of the call on the company's website.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Texas Instruments to report that a profit of $0.12 per share, which is 77.7% lower than in the same period a year ago. Revenue for the quarter is expected to total $2.4 billion, down 33.3% from a year ago. These numbers are in line with guidance Texas Instruments offered in December. Texas Instruments matched earnings expectations in the third quarter and missed by a penny in the second quarter.
For the full year, analysts expect earnings of $1.48 per share and revenue of $12.4 billion, which compares to $1.83 per share on $13.8 billion in 2007.
Texas Instruments recently announced a quarterly dividend of $0.11 per share of common stock, the same as in the previous quarter. Analysts, on average, expect long-term EPS growth of 8.7% for Texas Instruments. The share price is about 38% lower it was than a year ago.
See BloggingStocks' Texas Instruments coverage for more information about the Dallas-based semiconductor maker.
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