Texas Instruments Incorporated's return on equity: 3 definitions, 3 answers
Depending on which definition is used, Texas Instruments Incorporated's return on equity for FY2025 is anywhere from 30.15% to 30.73%, every one of them arithmetically correct and all of them out of the same filing.
Computed from Texas Instruments Incorporated's 10-K for fiscal 2025, the year ended 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-06, 37 days after the books closed. Accession 0000097476-26-000059 Reported in USD.
The same filing, read 3 ways
| Definition | Formula, in filed line items | Measured over | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income over closing equityours | netIncome / totalStockholdersEquity | One filed fiscal year | 30.73% |
| Net income over average equity | netIncome / ((totalStockholdersEquity this year + totalStockholdersEquity last year) / 2) | Two filed balance sheets | 30.15% |
| Net income over total equity including minority interests | netIncome / totalEquity | One filed fiscal year | 30.73% |
Highest over lowest, a factor of 1.02.
- Net income over closing equity
- Net income 5.00 bn USD, Total stockholders' equity 16.27 bn USD, giving 30.73%. This is the one the product prints.
- Net income over average equity
- Net income 5.00 bn USD, Total stockholders' equity 16.27 bn USD, Total stockholders' equity (prior year) 16.90 bn USD, giving 30.15%. Reading it instead of the one the product prints moves the answer by -0.58 pts.
- Net income over total equity including minority interests
- Net income 5.00 bn USD, Total equity 16.27 bn USD, giving 30.73%. Same answer as the one the product prints, to two decimals.
Our own figure for TXN: 30.73%. That is the net income over closing equity line above.
The definitions disagree by 0.58 pts on this filer, against 9.26 pts between the median and the top quartile of the 4574-company cohort. So the choice moves the answer less than a quarter of the market does.
Is that a lot
Texas Instruments Incorporated's 30.73% (FY2025, on the definition this product prints) is +27.18 pts against the 3.55% median of the 4574 filers holding a return on equity on 2026-10-21. Every mark, and the distance from it:
| Mark | Every filer (4574) | Distance | Technology (671) | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p5 | -215.01% | +245.74 pts | -225.43% | +256.16 pts |
| p10 | -114.44% | +145.17 pts | -116.24% | +146.97 pts |
| p25 | -29.22% | +59.95 pts | -27.92% | +58.65 pts |
| p50 | 3.55% | +27.18 pts | 1.12% | +29.61 pts |
| p75 | 12.82% | +17.91 pts | 14.47% | +16.26 pts |
| p90 | 25.45% | +5.28 pts | 30.28% | +0.45 pts |
| p95 | 39.61% | -8.88 pts | 48.27% | -17.54 pts |
A distance is not a verdict. What the marks mean, and what this metric hides
Nothing here is quoted from another publisher, and none of these is called wrong.
What this page leaves out
Evaluated over 10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025. Accounts filed before this company began tagging its statements in XBRL are not machine-readable and are outside this page. No share price is involved in any figure here, so nothing on this page is limited by the depth of our price archive.
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