National Instruments Corporation (NasdaqGS:NATI) will seek investments. During the fourth quarter 2020 earnings conference call, Karen Rapp, Chief Financial Officer, said that “we will continue to align resources to what we believe are higher growth opportunities while working to reduce costs in pursuit of our long-term financial model, and we believe our strong balance sheet puts us in a position of strength to capitalize on inorganic investments to help accelerate growth”. Eric Starkloff, President and Chief Executive Officer of company said," we will continue to hire critical expertise, make investments aligned to our [indiscernible] strategy and continue to view our strong balance sheet as a way to leverage inorganic investments as strategic accelerators to help us achieve our growth targets faster and across a broader range of customers".