Texas Instruments Incorporated is a global semiconductor company. Co. designs, manufactures, tests, and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets, such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment, and enterprise systems. Co.'s segments include Analog and Embedded Processing. The Analog segment includes product lines, such as Power and Signal Chain. Power includes products that help customers manage power in electronic systems. Signal Chain includes products that sense, condition, and measure real-world signals to allow information to be transferred or converted for further processing and control.
When researching a stock like Texas Instruments, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from TXN Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for TXN stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the TXN 200 day moving average ("TXN 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the TXN 50 day moving average ("TXN 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Texas Instruments. |