What's driving Texas Instruments (TXN)
Research summary
Texas Instruments Analog Growth and Margin Conversion
Why it matters now
Broad analog and embedded-processing revenue growth, together with sharp operating-profit and free-cash-flow expansion, directly affects TXN earnings power.
Next checkpoint
Broad end-market growth and operating-profit conversion (expected 2026-10-21) · Watch: CONFIRM if growth remains broad and operating profit expands with revenue; VIOLATE if growth is concentrated or margins deteriorate despite revenue growth.
What would break the thesis
Revenue growth narrows materially or fails to convert into operating-profit and free-cash-flow expansion.
Research drivers
Texas Instruments Analog Growth and Margin Conversion
Second-quarter revenue growth converted into strong operating-profit and net-income expansion, reinforcing the broad recovery-conversion stance.
Source claims
Texas Instruments' second-quarter 2026 Analog revenue was $4,365 million, up 26% from the second quarter of 2025, and Analog operating profit was $1,992 million, up 50%.
Texas Instruments' trailing-12-month free cash flow was $6,534 million, up 271% from $1,763 million in the prior-year period.
Texas Instruments' second-quarter 2026 Embedded Processing revenue was $788 million, up 16% from the second quarter of 2025, and Embedded Processing operating profit was $168 million, up 98%.
Texas Instruments' second-quarter revenue increased 13% sequentially and 23% from the same quarter a year ago, with broad growth led by industrial, data center and automotive.
Texas Instruments' third-quarter outlook is for revenue between $5.65 billion and $6.15 billion and earnings per share between $2.23 and $2.57.
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