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Teradyne, Inc.

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 87% YoY at strong marginsStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesConsistent chatter on X (302/wk), no spike
$TER·$58B·Semiconductors·Technology
$384.89-1.2%YTD+102.5%1Y+264.2%
Mentions · last 7 days
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Price updated 26m ago·X counts updated 22h ago
TETER
$TERTeradyne, Inc.
$384.89-1.16%302 posts+11%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $TER, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-08-05

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

The semi-test monopoly that just doubled revenue year-over-year — up nearly 3x in a year on the AI memory-test cycle.

Teradyne makes the automated test equipment that every semiconductor fab uses to verify chips work before they ship — and it has quietly become the single largest beneficiary of the HBM-driven AI memory production cycle, because every HBM stack needs vastly more test coverage than legacy DRAM.

  • Q2 was one of the strongest prints in the company's history: revenue of $1.33B doubled year-over-year (+104%) driven by record memory-test revenue on DRAM and NAND final-test resurgence, and Q3 guidance came in well ahead of consensus.
  • The mechanic is direct and durable: HBM production requires roughly 2-3x more final-test time per die than legacy memory, so the AI memory cycle is not just a volume story for Teradyne — it's a per-unit revenue story that keeps compounding as HBM4 shipments ramp through 2027.
  • The valuation reflects the rerating: 66x trailing earnings and 15x sales on essentially zero debt is not the classic-cyclical multiple this used to trade at — Teradyne has been rerated to a durable AI-infrastructure name, and the sell-side is now modelling FY27 revenue at $5.6B and FY28 at $7.2B.
  • Insider selling is orderly rather than urgent: officer sales at $356 and $358 in July are in the $1-1.5M-per-tranche range, which reads as standard grant-vesting behavior at this cap rather than a coordinated exit signal.

The Oct 27 Q3 print is the next confirmation — the read to watch is memory-test revenue as a stated line and any change to the FY27 shipment guide. Reaffirmation extends the accelerating leg further from the 50-day; the technical concern is that TER hasn't reclaimed the 50DMA post-print despite the earnings crush, so a soft Q3 guide would break the setup faster than the print alone suggests.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bulls have the numbers right — record memory-test revenue, +104% YoY, and a Q3 guide well ahead of consensus is exactly the setup that earns the rerating — but the bears' point that TER can't reclaim the 50DMA despite an earnings crush is a real technical tell worth engaging, not dismissing.

What to watch: The Oct 27 Q3 print — memory-test revenue as a stated line and any change to the FY27 shipment guide. Reaffirmation extends the leg further from the 50-day; a soft Q3 guide plus continued failure to reclaim the 50DMA would break the setup faster than the print alone suggests.

On the calendar: 2026-10-27 — Q3 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment35 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-05

Teradyne longs sound emphatically bullish after a triple play — revenue +104% YoY, memory book-to-bill above 2, and Q3 guide well ahead — with the AI test-intensity narrative and dual-vendor hyperscaler wins framed as a multi-year growth engine. The robotics division hitting a $100M quarter is being cheered as validation of the humanoid tailwind. A minority notes the stock is still below its 50 and 21 MAs post-print and warns of a 2H compute air pocket.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Makes automated test equipment for semiconductor ICs and circuit boards, plus collaborative robots (Universal Robots).

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Semiconductors sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $TER.

Semiconductors · Technology

No material change from last week — structural AI capex engine unchanged: hyperscaler Blackwell allocation stays tight through 2H26 and HBM3e pricing holds as LLM context-window expansion drives 5-8x per-server memory demand uplift.

What this means for $TER

Neutral — Makes automated test equipment for semiconductor ICs and circuit boards, plus collaborative robots (Universal Robots); limited read-through from semiconductors macro dynamics to this specific revenue mix.

Top industry ETF

$SMHVanEck Semiconductor ETF
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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
65.6How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
25.7%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
26.9%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
1.0%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
14.8Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
29.7%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
58.8%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Jul 28, 2026$2.47$2.09+18.2%
Q1 2026Apr 28, 2026$2.56$2.11+21.3%
Q4 2025Feb 2, 2026$1.80$1.38+30.4%
Q3 2025Oct 28, 2025$0.85$0.79+7.6%
Next earningsTue, Oct 27·consensus EPS $2.03

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$1.3B+87.0%60.9%36.9%$2.55$200.4M
Q4 FY25$1.1B+43.9%57.5%28.6%$1.64$218.7M
Q3 FY25$769.2M+4.3%58.4%18.9%$0.75$2.4M
Q2 FY25$651.8M-10.7%57.2%13.9%$0.49$131.7M

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 14 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$4.6B$4.4B – $4.8B$7.60$7.00 – $8.4813
FY27$5.6B$4.5B – $6.5B$10.44$7.77 – $12.4514
FY28$7.2B$6.9B – $7.4B$14.49$10.77 – $19.1810

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.7×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.74%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+1.8%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+32.8%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 156.0M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today2.0% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.745-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellAug 3Mercedes JohnsonDirector166 sh$59KSellJul 15Smith Gregory StephenCEO4.0K sh$1.4MSellJul 15Marilyn MatzDirector1.2K sh$428KSellJul 1Mercedes JohnsonDirector167 sh$77KSellJun 15Marilyn MatzDirector1.2K sh$508KSellJun 15Smith Gregory StephenCEO4.0K sh$1.7MSellMay 22Poulin Shannon JohnPresident656 sh$233KSellMay 21Poulin Shannon JohnPresident1.0K sh$348KSellMay 21Marilyn MatzDirector400 sh$140KSellMay 15Marilyn MatzDirector800 sh$271K
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+ 25 other (14 awards · 6 others · 3 inkinds · 2 exempts) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KShareholder voteMay 118-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

TER held its annual meeting of stockholders around 2026-05-11 (8-K Item 5.07). Stockholders elected 10 directors to the board. Independent auditor ratification was approved. Routine governance event — monitor for unusually high withhold votes as an activist signal.

+ 14 other (5 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Elon Musk Predicts ‘Money Won't Matter in 2036.' Is This His Worst Prediction Yet or Prophetic?247wallst.com·1d agoWhy Teradyne (TER) Might be Well Poised for a Surgezacks.com·1d agoTeradyne Is Overvalued at 10.36X PS: Should You Still Buy the Stock?zacks.com·2d agoServe Robotics Surges 13%, Ouster Climbs 6%, Symbotic Gains 4% as Robotics Stocks Rally247wallst.com·3d agoTER Q2 Earnings Call Centers on AI-Led Multiyear Growthzacks.com·3d ago

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