One further comment about the very even paced price increase. Although I try not to believe the ASX is manipulated, my suspicious side was thinking that someone is buying in to TXN without raising the risk of a ASX speeding ticket.
The price rose exactly 2 cents each day then held at that price (except fell back to 1 cent on Friday). The volume more than doubled in the range of 650k to 850k shares per day (previously mostly below 300k, I recall).
Just a thought.
TXN Price at posting:
56.0¢ Sentiment: None Disclosure: Held