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Raw inputs
Equipment
Foundry
Chip design
Software
AI demand
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Company details
Market cap
$79B
P/E ratio
30×
Div yield
1.3%
EPS (TTM)
~$8.3
Profit margin
17%
Rev. growth
+12%
Revenue
$12.3B
Operating margin
30%
In plain English
NXP is the world's biggest automotive chipmaker — its processors, radar, microcontrollers and battery-management chips run the brains, sensors and safety systems of modern cars, where roughly 58% of its revenue comes from. It also makes the NFC and ultra-wideband chips inside the iPhone (Apple Pay, car keys, AirTag-style location), plus industrial and IoT silicon. NXP designs its chips and runs a 'fab-lite' model — some of its own factories, the rest outsourced to TSMC, GlobalFoundries and Samsung. Its history is bookmarked by two huge deals: it bought Freescale for ~$11.8B in 2015 to become the automotive leader, and was itself nearly bought by Qualcomm for ~$44B in 2016 — a deal abandoned in 2018 when China's regulator never approved it.
In simple terms
What NXP Semiconductors really sells
NXP is the world's biggest automotive chipmaker — its processors, radar, microcontrollers and battery-management chips run the brains, sensors and safety systems of modern cars, where roughly 58% of its revenue comes from. It also makes the NFC and ultra-wideband chips inside the iPhone (Apple Pay, car keys, AirTag-style location), plus industrial and IoT silicon. NXP designs its chips and runs a 'fab-lite' model — some of its own factories, the rest outsourced to TSMC, GlobalFoundries and Samsung. Its history is bookmarked by two huge deals: it bought Freescale for ~$11.8B in 2015 to become the automotive leader, and was itself nearly bought by Qualcomm for ~$44B in 2016 — a deal abandoned in 2018 when China's regulator never approved it.
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