Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday morning. 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.

Teradyne Stock Performance

Shares of TER opened at $114.76 on Friday. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $125.22 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $125.64. The firm has a market capitalization of $18.69 billion, a P/E ratio of 34.45, a P/E/G ratio of 2.04 and a beta of 1.46. Teradyne has a 52 week low of $92.29 and a 52 week high of $163.21.

Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 29th. The company reported $0.95 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.91 by $0.04. Teradyne had a return on equity of 19.23% and a net margin of 19.23%. On average, equities analysts forecast that Teradyne will post 4.1 earnings per share for the current year.

Teradyne Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 14th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be issued a $0.12 dividend. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 14th. Teradyne’s dividend payout ratio is presently 14.41%.

Teradyne declared that its board has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Monday, November 11th that allows the company to repurchase $100.00 million in shares. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 0.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company’s leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms recently commented on TER. Morgan Stanley downgraded Teradyne from an “equal weight” rating to an “underweight” rating and dropped their price objective for the company from $121.00 to $117.00 in a research note on Tuesday, January 21st. StockNews.com upgraded Teradyne from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Sunday, October 27th. Evercore ISI increased their target price on Teradyne from $130.00 to $145.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 9th. Craig Hallum dropped their target price on Teradyne from $124.00 to $111.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, October 25th. Finally, Robert W. Baird dropped their target price on Teradyne from $140.00 to $133.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, October 25th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating, ten have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $148.23.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Teradyne news, CEO Gregory Stephen Smith sold 3,080 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, January 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $130.00, for a total value 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 trade represents a 3.96 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, CFO Sanjay Mehta sold 1,789 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $120.51, for a total transaction of $215,592.39. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 33,308 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $4,013,947.08. This trade represents a 5.10 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 5,383 shares of company stock valued at $677,935 over the last ninety days. 0.36% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.