Sender Co & Partners Inc. Purchases Shares of 13,032 Teradyne, Inc. $TER

Key Points

• Sender Co & Partners Inc. recently acquired a stake in Teradyne, Inc., purchasing 13,032 shares valued at approximately $1,076,000.
• Numerous hedge funds raised their positions in Teradyne during the first quarter, indicating strong institutional interest with 99.77% of the company owned by such investors.
• Analysts have mixed ratings on Teradyne, with one investment firm upgrading it to a "hold" and others maintaining or downgrading their ratings; the consensus rating stands at "Moderate Buy" with a target price of $114.44.

Sender Co & Partners Inc. purchased a new stake in Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER - Free Report) in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund purchased 13,032 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $1,076,000.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the business. Federated Hermes Inc. boosted its position in Teradyne by 188.8% during the 1st quarter. Federated Hermes Inc. now owns 2,105,852 shares of the company's stock valued at $173,943,000 after acquiring an additional 1,376,631 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of Teradyne by 1,612.4% during the 1st 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 last quarter. American Century Companies Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Teradyne by 124.3% during the 1st quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 1,120,250 shares of the company's stock worth $92,533,000 after purchasing an additional 620,918 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in Teradyne by 2.5% during the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 20,922,231 shares of the company's stock valued at $1,728,176,000 after purchasing an additional 516,332 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. grew its stake in Teradyne by 54.7% in the first quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 1,428,012 shares of the company's stock valued at $117,954,000 after purchasing an additional 504,944 shares during the last quarter. 99.77% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Insider Buying and Selling at Teradyne

In other news, CEO Gregory Stephen Smith sold 554 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $106.00, for a total value of $58,724.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 96,993 shares in the company, valued at $10,281,258. This trade represents a 0.57% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 0.16% of the company's stock.

Teradyne Price Performance

Teradyne stock traded up $2.75 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $117.82. 4,405,918 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,257,733. The firm's fifty day moving average is $104.82 and its two-hundred day moving average is $91.51. The company has a market capitalization of $18.74 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 36.30, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.42 and a beta of 1.80. Teradyne, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $65.77 and a fifty-two week high of $144.16.

Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July 29th. The company reported $0.57 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.03. Teradyne had a net margin of 16.59% and a return on equity of 18.16%. The business had revenue of $651.80 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $649.02 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.86 earnings per share. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 10.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Teradyne has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.690-0.870 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Teradyne, Inc. will post 3.88 earnings per share for the current year.

Teradyne Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, September 29th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.12 per share. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.4%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, September 5th. Teradyne's payout ratio is presently 16.61%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities analysts have commented on TER shares. UBS Group reiterated a "buy" rating and issued a $130.00 target price (up from $120.00) on shares of Teradyne in a report on Thursday, July 31st. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their price objective on shares of Teradyne from $85.00 to $100.00 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, July 31st. Cowen reissued a "buy" rating on shares of Teradyne in a research report on Wednesday, July 30th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Teradyne from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Monday, September 1st. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reaffirmed a "neutral" rating and set a $102.00 price target (up from $88.00) on shares of Teradyne in a research report on Thursday, July 17th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have issued a Buy rating, five have issued a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus target price of $114.44.

Teradyne 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.