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Here's How Much a $1000 Investment in Texas Instruments Made 10 Years Ago Would Be Worth Today

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How much a stock's price changes over time is important for most investors, since price performance can both impact your investment portfolio and help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.

The fear of missing out, or FOMO, also plays a factor in investing, especially with particular tech giants, as well as popular consumer-facing stocks.

What if you'd invested in Texas Instruments (TXN - Free Report) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to TXN for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?

Texas Instruments' Business In-Depth

With that in mind, let's take a look at Texas Instruments' main business drivers.

Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Texas Instruments Incorporated is an original equipment manufacturer of analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits.

Texas Instruments has manufacturing and design facilities, including wafer fabrication and assembly/test operations in North America, Asia and Europe.

Management’s strategy has been to build assets that would be fully utilized through their lifetimes and outsource any excess demand in peak situations to outside foundries.

In 2025, Texas Instruments generated total revenues of $17.68 billion, up 13% from 2024. The company has two reporting financial segments, Analog and Embedded Processing. It reports the results of its remaining business activities in Other.

Analog segment revenues grew 15% to $14.01 billion and accounted for approximately 79% of total revenues in 2025. Analog products have been categorized into two categories, Power and Signal Chain. Power products manage and distribute electricity, while Signal Chain products sense, condition and convert real-world signals.

Revenues from the Embedded Processing segment rose 6% to $2.70 billion and contributed approximately 15% to 2025 total revenues. This segment includes microcontrollers, processors, wireless connectivity and radar products.

The Other business generated $979 million in revenues and accounted for approximately 6% of 2025 total sales. The segment includes smaller product lines, such as DLP products, calculators and certain application-specific integrated circuits. Revenues from this segment increased 3% in 2025.

The company's products are sold in industrial, personal electronics, automotive, data center and communications equipment markets. In 2025, industrial and automotive each represented 33% of revenue. Personal electronics accounted for 21%, data center 9% and communications equipment 3%. Calculators represented about 1% of revenue.

Texas Instruments has more than 80,000 products and over 100,000 customers. In 2025, more than 80% of revenue was generated through direct sales channels.

Bottom Line

Anyone can invest, but building a successful investment portfolio requires research, patience, and a little bit of risk. So, if you had invested in Texas Instruments, ten years ago, you're likely feeling pretty good about your investment today.

According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in October 2016 would be worth $4,157.30, or a gain of 315.73%, as of October 27, 2026, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.

Compare this to the S&P 500's rally of 258.82% and gold's return of 203.96% over the same time frame.

Analysts are anticipating more upside for TXN.

Texas Instruments is benefiting from a broad recovery in industrial and automotive demand and sustained data center expansion. Its analog and embedded portfolios serve diverse, long-lived applications. Internal manufacturing and growing capacity strengthen supply reliability while supporting margin recovery as utilization rises. Rising cash generation provides greater room for dividends and long-term investment. The planned Silicon Labs acquisition could extend its wireless connectivity reach. Management's outlook points to continued demand across its core markets. Semiconductor cyclicality, pricing competition, trade exposure and debt remain risks. Equipment delivery constraints could also slow capacity additions. Nonetheless, improving factory economics and a wider range of growth opportunities support an Outperform view.

The stock is up 7.12% over the past four weeks, and no earnings estimate has gone lower in the past two months, compared to 9 higher, for fiscal 2026. The consensus estimate has moved up as well.

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