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:
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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 May 22nd 2009 11:00AM by Steven Halpern
Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Pfizer (PFE), Boeing Co (BA), Texas Instruments (TXN), General Dynamics Corp (GD), Northrop Grumman (NOC)
"Golf has Tiger Woods, novelists have Tom Clancy, and the investment community has stars such as Bruce Berkowitz, Bill Nygren, Charlie Dreifus, and Mario Gabelli," states Paul Tracy.
In his The Street Authority Market Advisor, he suggests, "These money managers are at the pinnacle of their craft." Here, he takes a look at these "celebrities" and some of their current top stock holdings.
"These money managers have all amassed prodigious gains over the years for their shareholders. Over the past few months, these gurus have come out with ringing endorsements for certain stocks. This isn't empty talk -- they are putting their money where their mouth is.
Continue reading Investing with the stars: Top stocks from top managers
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 13th 2009 8:15AM by Paul Foster
Filed under: Texas Instruments (TXN), Options
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) is expected to report Q1 EPS on April 20. TXN May option implied volatility is at 50; June is at 45; near its 26-week average of 50, according to Track Data, suggesting non-directional price movement.
Semiconductor Holders Trust (NASDAQ: SMH) overall volatility at 44; 26-week average is 47.
Option Update is provided by Stock Specialist Paul Foster of theflyonthewall.com.
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 Mar 10th 2009 4:00PM by Jon Ogg
Filed under: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Wal-Mart (WMT), Citigroup Inc. (C), Texas Instruments (TXN)

Today we finally got this massive oversold rally. Citi's call of profitability and a combined SEC review of short sales via the uptick rule and some modifications to mark to market accounting led the way.
That being said, the markets took this as added good news to what has so far only been a sea of red. Unfortunately, this was probably the lightest day of individual stock news in weeks. Here are the unofficial closing bell levels:
Dow 6,880.78 +333.73 (5.10%)
S&P 500 719.60 +43.07 (6.37%)
Nasdaq 1,358.28 +89.64 (7.07%)
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DowngradesContinue reading Closing Bell: Market rallies, Dow, S&P and Nasdaq all up (C, HPQ, SLB, WMT, TXN)
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
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