Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER) Receives $121.27 Average Target Price from Analysts

Shares of Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER) have been assigned a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” from the eighteen research firms that are covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation, six have given a hold recommendation, nine have given a buy recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price objective among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $121.2667.

A number of research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Cowen reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Teradyne in a research note on Wednesday, July 30th. UBS Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $130.00 target price (up previously from $120.00) on shares of Teradyne in a research report on Thursday, July 31st. The Goldman Sachs Group raised their target price on shares of Teradyne from $85.00 to $130.00 and gave the company a “sell” rating in a research report on Thursday. Northland Securities set a $161.00 target price on shares of Teradyne in a research report on Tuesday, October 7th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus raised their target price on shares of Teradyne from $85.00 to $100.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, July 31st.

Teradyne Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:TER opened at $132.08 on Friday. Teradyne has a 52-week low of $65.77 and a 52-week high of $150.71. The company has a market capitalization of $21.01 billion, a P/E ratio of 45.70, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.78 and a beta of 1.82. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $121.40 and a 200 day simple moving average of $96.81.

Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 29th. The company reported $0.57 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $651.80 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $649.02 million. Teradyne had a net margin of 16.59% and a return on equity of 18.16%. The business’s revenue was down 10.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.86 EPS. Teradyne has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.690-0.870 EPS. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Teradyne will post 3.88 earnings per share for the current year.

Teradyne Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, September 29th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 5th were given a $0.12 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Friday, September 5th. This represents a $0.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.4%. Teradyne’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 16.61%.

Insider Activity at Teradyne

In other news, CEO Gregory Stephen Smith sold 554 shares of Teradyne stock in a transaction on Monday, September 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $126.39, for a total transaction of $70,020.06. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 95,885 shares in the company, valued at approximately $12,118,905.15. The trade was a 0.57% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Insiders have sold a total of 2,216 shares of company stock worth $251,028 in the last quarter. 0.16% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Teradyne

A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of TER. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of Teradyne during the second quarter worth $152,854,000. Federated Hermes Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Teradyne by 79.7% during the second quarter. Federated Hermes Inc. now owns 3,785,067 shares of the company’s stock worth $340,353,000 after purchasing an additional 1,679,215 shares during the period. AQR Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Teradyne by 1,612.4% during the first quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 1,404,752 shares of the company’s stock worth $113,251,000 after purchasing an additional 1,322,716 shares during the period. Amundi lifted its holdings in shares of Teradyne by 255.3% during the second quarter. Amundi now owns 1,812,001 shares of the company’s stock worth $170,654,000 after purchasing an additional 1,302,025 shares during the period. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Teradyne by 224.0% during the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,851,684 shares of the company’s stock worth $152,949,000 after purchasing an additional 1,280,120 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.77% of the company’s stock.

Teradyne Company Profile

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.