Texas Instruments to buy shares and boost dividend
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Texas Instruments Inc  said on Friday its board has approved an additional $5 billion share buyback and the company plans to raise its quarterly cash dividend by 25 percent.
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Stocks were set to open higher on  Friday after Ford Motor Co. F.N raised its earnings  forecasts, while a $1 billion share buyback at Texas  Instruments Inc. TXN.N could support technology stocks.
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Wireless chip maker Texas Instruments Inc  said on Friday it expanded its share buyback program by $5 billion, or about 10 percent of its market capitalization, sending shares up 3.7 percent.
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At its meeting on December 14, 2006 Technip's  (Paris:TEC) (NYSE:TKP) (ISIN:FR0000131708) Board of Directors made the  following decisions:  to pay in advance part of the 2006 dividend, in the amount of 0.50  euros per share.
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U.S. stocks were set for a steady start on Friday with a billion dollar share buyback plan at Texas Instruments  lending some backbone to the technology sector.
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TXU Corp. (NYSE: TXU) said Monday it will increase its quarterly dividend 350 percent over last quarter to 56.25 cents per share. The increased dividend -- up from 12.
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Texas Instruments Inc. , the world's largest maker of chips for cell phones, on Tuesday said it expects fourth-quarter revenue and earnings per share at the mid range of its previous estimates, as order trends remain soft.
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Stocks rose on Thursday after brokerages upgraded General Motors Corp.  and Merck & Co.  and McDonald's Corp.  boosted its annual dividend by 50 percent.
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General Electric Co. raised its quarterly dividend by 10 per cent and launched a plan to buy back up to $15 billion US in shares over three years, as it projected double-digit percentage earnings growth for 2005.
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Texas Instruments Inc. , the world's largest maker of chips for cell phones, on Tuesday said it expects fourth-quarter revenue and earnings per share at the mid range of its previous estimates, as order trends remain soft and an inventory correction continues.
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The chip maker Texas Instruments said Friday that it had expanded its share buyback program by $5 billion, or about 10 percent of its market capitalization, sending shares up.
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A stock for dividend investors' watch list.
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Intel Corp., the world's largest  maker of computer chips, said on Wednesday it would double its  quarterly dividend to 8 cents a share, the second time this  year it has doubled its cash payout.
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The company's latest nanotech development could pay dividends over the long term.
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Shares of Texas Instruments Inc. dipped Tuesday, a day after the leading maker of chips for cell phones said it expected to grow in the second quarter but gave only a middling outlook for first-quarter profit.
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Texas Instruments Inc. TXN.N, the  world's largest maker of chips for cell phones, on Tuesday said  it expects fourth-quarter revenue and earnings per share at the  mid range of its previous estimates, as order trends remain  soft.
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U.S. stocks rose on Friday, led by technology shares after higher-than-expected results from software maker Oracle Corp  and a share buyback from Texas Instruments Inc .