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Texas Instruments Execs Quietly Cash Out Millions in High-Profile Stock Sales

Texas Instruments Execs Quietly Cash Out Millions in High-Profile Stock Sales

New insider activity at Texas Instruments ( (TXN) ) has taken place on February 12, 2026.

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Texas Instruments has seen a wave of insider stock sales by its senior leadership team. SVP & CFO Rafael R Lizardi led the activity by selling 71,628 shares of Texas Instruments stock, generating proceeds of $15,882,033. Another senior vice president, Ahmad Bahai, sold 6,500 shares in a transaction worth $1,500,070. In addition, SVP Mark Gary disposed of 23,169 shares, with the sale totaling $5,236,058. These transactions collectively represent a significant cash-out by top executives, highlighting notable insider movement in Texas Instruments shares.

Recent Updates on TXN stock

Texas Instruments’ stock reacted to its Q4 earnings call, where management highlighted solid year-over-year growth, stronger free cash flow and accelerating demand from data center, industrial and automotive markets as key structural positives, helped by expanding 300mm capacity and CHIPS Act incentives. However, sequential revenue and margin softness, ongoing weakness in personal electronics and communications, rising inventory days and a sizable but manageable debt load led to a more cautious near-term outlook, with guidance modestly above typical seasonality but framed by continued macro and demand uncertainty, which collectively shaped analysts’ reassessment of the stock’s prospects over the last day.

Spark’s Take on TXN Stock

According to Spark, TipRanks’ AI Analyst, TXN is a Outperform.

TXN scores well on business quality and earnings/cash-generation trends, reinforced by a cautiously positive outlook and improving free cash flow dynamics as CapEx moderates. The score is held back by weak free-cash-flow conversion versus net income, increased leverage, and a technically overbought setup alongside a high P/E valuation.

To see Spark’s full report on TXN stock, click here.

More about Texas Instruments

YTD Price Performance: 26.93%

Average Trading Volume: 7,918,422

Technical Sentiment Signal: Buy

Current Market Cap: $200.5B

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