NVTS vs TXN: How Navitas Semiconductor and Texas Instruments Compare (2026)

Same yardstick, side by side (as of July 2026). Valuation lined up like this is most meaningful for two names in the same corner of the market, which these are. Figures are approximate; verify before investing.

The metrics above tell you which is the marginally better business. The bigger risk for most people is not picking the slightly worse stock, it is over-concentrating. NVTS and TXN share themes, so owning both, or adding either to what you already hold, can quietly push a large share of your portfolio into one bet.

This is the part a generic comparison page cannot answer, because it depends on what you own. Connect your brokerage and Walnut shows your real, combined NVTS and TXN exposure, flags overlap with your existing positions, and tells you if adding one would tip you past a concentration you are comfortable with, read-only by default, with your login staying at your broker. Walnut is not an investment adviser.

Navitas Semiconductor is a power-semiconductor company focused on next-generation materials: gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC). These wide-bandgap materials switch faster and run more efficiently than traditional silicon power chips, enabling smaller, cooler, and more power-dense designs. Navitas makes money selling GaN power ICs and SiC devices into chargers and adapters for phones and laptops, data center power supplies, solar and energy storage inverters, electric vehicles, and consumer appliances. The company integrates control, drive, and protection circuitry onto its GaN chips, which it markets as a system-level advantage over discrete components. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Torrance, California, Navitas is a smaller, growth-stage player whose story centers on the AI data center power transition, where rising rack power densities are pushing the industry toward GaN and SiC for higher efficiency.

Full NVTS guide

Texas Instruments (TI) is one of the largest analog semiconductor companies in the world. The vast majority of TI's revenue comes from analog and embedded processing chips: signal-chain semiconductors (op-amps, ADCs, DACs), power management ICs, and small microcontrollers. These are unglamorous compared to GPUs but are essential to nearly every electronic system: industrial equipment, automotive (a major end market), communications infrastructure, and consumer electronics.

Full TXN guide

Both fit overlapping themes, but they are not interchangeable. The useful comparison is which set of drivers and risks you want exposure to.

• NVTS drivers: AI data center power; GaN and SiC adoption curve.
• TXN drivers: US-domestic manufacturing capacity expansion; Automotive and industrial as core growth markets.

A faster-growing, richer-valued name usually swings harder, so it suits a longer horizon and a higher tolerance for volatility; a steadier, more cash-generative business suits a more conservative or income-minded investor. The honest test is which set of risks you could hold through a drawdown: Navitas is small, often unprofitable, and competes against far larger and better-capitalized incumbents (Infineon, onsemi, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments) that also sell GaN and SiC. For TXN, the massive US fab expansion compresses margins near-term and creates execution risk if demand doesn't materialize as expected.

Growth-minded investors who believe the theme has years to run tend to accept the richer multiple for more upside; value-minded investors lean toward the cheaper forward earnings and steadier profile. Pick NVTS if you believe its drivers more; TXN if you believe its. Many investors hold both, but since they share themes, that is a concentrated bet, not diversification. Decide deliberately and check overlap. For the full detail, see the NVTS and TXN guides.

NVTS. Navitas trades as a growth and theme stock rather than on current earnings. Valuation is driven by expectations for GaN and SiC adoption and AI data center power design wins, so the multiple on small current revenue can be high. The financial profile is that of an early-stage semiconductor company investing ahead of scale.

TXN. TI's premium valuation reflects the quality of the analog business (sticky designs, long product lifecycles, high margins) and the dividend growth track record. The multiple is pressured near-term by the fab capex; longer-term it normalizes as new capacity comes online.

Headline figures (approximate, early 2026): NVTS shows revenue (ttm) ~$80 million, revenue growth volatile, tied to charger and emerging data center demand, operating margin negative (still investing ahead of scale), net income (ttm) net loss; TXN shows revenue (ttm) ~$17 billion (recovering from 2023-2024 trough), operating margin ~38% (compressed by fab capex), net income (ttm) ~$5 billion, eps (ttm) ~$5.50.

NVTS and TXN are related but distinct: same themes, different businesses and risks. Neither wins in the abstract; the right pick is whichever thesis you actually believe, sized so you are not over-concentrated in one theme. Walnut can show your combined NVTS and TXN exposure against your real portfolio. It is not an investment adviser.