Teradyne (TER) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What TER does

Teradyne (TER) is a US stock in the Technology sector, specifically in the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials industry. The company designs, develops, manufactures, and sells automated test systems and robotics products across the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Test, Robotics, and Other. The Semiconductor Test segment provides equipment and services for testing wafers and packaged devices, including platforms such as the FLEX test system, the J750 system for high-volume devices like microcontrollers, the Magnum platform for memory devices such as flash and DRAM, and the ETS platform for analog and mixed-signal applications. It serves integrated device manufacturers, fabless companies, foundries, and semiconductor assembly and test providers.

Key numbers explained

• 389.14 USD is the current share price, representing the cost to buy one share of Teradyne on the US market.
• The trailing P/E ratio of 51.1 shows how much investors pay per dollar of the company's last 12 months of earnings; a higher number often reflects expectations of future growth.
• The forward P/E ratio of 33.4 uses expected future earnings and is typically read as a more optimistic valuation measure than the trailing P/E.
• Earnings per share, trailing 12 months of 7.61 USD indicates the portion of the company's profit allocated to each outstanding share over the past year.
• The dividend yield of 0.13% is the annual dividend payment expressed as a percentage of the current share price, showing the cash return shareholders receive from dividends.
• Beta of 1.78 measures the stock's volatility relative to the overall market; a value above 1 means it tends to move more than the market.
• Market cap of 60.84B USD is the total market value of all outstanding shares and is used to classify the company's size.
• Revenue growth, year over year of 103.9% reflects how much the company's top line has increased compared with the same period a year earlier.

Recent news

Recent headlines indicate that Teradyne shares have been rising alongside peers such as Power Integrations, Penguin Solutions, Photronics, and Amkor. The company has also entered a strategic partnership with GS Microelectronics to establish a new semiconductor testing facility, targeting areas such as AI, silicon photonics, and automotive chips.

What to watch

Investors typically monitor semiconductor equipment companies like Teradyne in relation to broader industry cycles, capital spending on fabrication capacity, and demand for chips in sectors such as automotive, communications, and computing. Because it is part of the S&P 500, its performance can be influenced by large-cap market trends. Comparing it with peers such as Supermicro (SMCI), Texas Instruments (TXN), Oracle Corporation (ORCL), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Seagate Technology (STX), Cognizant (CTSH), and GoDaddy (GDDY) can provide context on how the sector is performing relative to other technology sub-segments.