Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.580-0.680 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 0.620. The company issued revenue guidance of $660.0 million-$700.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $692.7 million.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts have issued reports on TER shares. Stifel Nicolaus cut their price objective on Teradyne from $140.00 to $125.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, October 25th. Northland Securities upgraded shares of Teradyne from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and upped their target price for the company from $117.00 to $154.00 in a research report on Monday, January 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upgraded shares of Teradyne from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and boosted their price objective for the company from $145.00 to $158.00 in a report on Monday, December 16th. Robert W. Baird cut their price objective on Teradyne from $140.00 to $133.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, October 25th. Finally, StockNews.com raised Teradyne from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Sunday, October 27th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating, ten have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $149.31.

Teradyne Trading Up 0.1 %

NASDAQ:TER traded up $0.11 on Wednesday, reaching $122.05. 2,737,732 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,530,008. The company’s 50 day moving average is $124.65 and its 200-day moving average is $125.74. Teradyne has a 1-year low of $92.29 and a 1-year high of $163.21. The firm has a market capitalization of $19.88 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.75, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.25 and a beta of 1.46.

Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, January 29th. The company reported $0.95 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.91 by $0.04. Teradyne had a return on equity of 18.56% and a net margin of 18.75%. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Teradyne will post 3.17 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Teradyne Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 14th. Investors of record on Friday, February 14th will be issued a $0.12 dividend. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.39%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 14th. Teradyne’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 15.24%.

Teradyne declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program on Monday, November 11th that authorizes the company to repurchase $100.00 million in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 0.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Insider Activity

In related news, CEO Gregory Stephen Smith sold 3,080 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, January 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $130.00, for a total transaction of $400,400.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 74,660 shares in the company, valued at $9,705,800. This represents a 3.96 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. 0.36% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

About Teradyne

Teradyne, Inc designs, develops, manufactures, and sells automated test systems and robotics products worldwide. It operates through four segments; Semiconductor Test, System Test, Robotics, and Wireless Test. The Semiconductor Test segment offers products and services for wafer level and device package testing of semiconductor devices in automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, smartphones, cloud, computer and electronic game, and other applications.