Texas Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXN) designs, makes and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers worldwide. The company operates mainly through two segments, Analog and Embedded Processing. It markets and sells products through a direct sales force and through distributors. TXN was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.I transferred shares of TXN into DivGro in December 2015. At the time, I listed several reasons for liking TXN, including the stock's yield of 2.62% and a 10-year dividend growth rate of 30%. Since then, TXN's yield has dropped to 2.19% on strong share price performance.
I'm very happy with my investment in TXN. The stock has performed very well, returning about 26% on an annualized basis in the 3 years I've owned shares. However, I've been preparing DivGro for options trading and I'm sacrificing this position for that goal.
It is really hard to say goodbye to a winner, so I'll just say good buy and move along!
Here is the 3-year price history chart of TXN that shows my buy and sell prices:
Below is an earnings and price correlated price F.A.S.T. Graphs chart for TXN over an 8-year period. The price line (black) is well above the normal P/E line (blue), indicating that TXN is trading at a premium to fair value:
Indeed, my fair value estimate of TXN is $60.16, implying a premium to fair value of about 15%. Because TXN is trading well above fair value, it turns out to be a good time to sell my shares.
Trading Summary
| 2013-09-16 | Bought: 50 shares of TXN at $40.4094 per share: | $ | 2,020.47 |
| 2013-11-18 | Dividend on 50 shares at 30¢ per share: | $ | 15.00 |
| 2014-02-10 | Dividend on 50 shares at 30¢ per share: | $ | 15.00 |
| 2014-05-19 | Dividend on 50 shares at 30¢ per share: | $ | 15.00 |
| 2014-08-18 | Dividend on 50 shares at 30¢ per share: | $ | 15.00 |
| 2014-11-17 | Dividend on 50 shares at 34¢ per share: | $ | 17.00 |
| 2015-02-09 | Dividend on 50 shares at 34¢ per share: | $ | 17.00 |
| 2015-05-18 | Dividend on 50 shares at 34¢ per share: | $ | 17.00 |
| 2015-08-17 | Dividend on 50 shares at 34¢ per share: | $ | 17.00 |
| 2015-11-16 | Dividend on 50 shares at 38¢ per share: | $ | 19.00 |
| 2015-11-16 | Bought: 10 shares of TXN at $56.72 per share: | $ | 560.20 |
| 2016-02-08 | Dividend on 50 shares at 38¢ per share: | $ | 22.80 |
| 2016-05-16 | Dividend on 50 shares at 38¢ per share: | $ | 22.80 |
| 2016-08-15 | Dividend on 50 shares at 38¢ per share: | $ | 22.80 |
2016-09-26
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Sold 60 shares of TXN at $68.4136 per share:
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$
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4,104.82
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Capital gain:
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$
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1,524.15
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Dividends received:
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$
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215.40
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Commissions/fees/taxes:
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$
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21.08
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Net gain:
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$
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1,329.83
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The net gain is 66.5% on the original amount invested, or 26% annualized.
Closing my TXN position removed $91.20 from DivGro's projected annual dividend income (PADI).
Thanks for reading!
Nicely done! I like to write covered calls when I want to exit a position but to each their own.
ReplyDeleteGood point -- except that I only owned 60 shares. In the future when I do have multiples of 100 shares, I'll remember!
DeleteI really like TXN but have to agree with you that it's well above fair value right now. Probably a good time to take some profits.
ReplyDeleteYup -- quite a bit above fair value... I'm happy with TXN's performance while I owned it, but I'm consolidating a bit here to boost my options trading opportunities.
DeleteThanks for commenting!