TER vs. VLTO, ITRI, COHU, TRNS, AMOT, AEHR, ALNT, INTT, FEIM, and DAIO
Should you be buying Teradyne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teradyne include Veralto (VLTO), Itron (ITRI), Cohu (COHU), Transcat (TRNS), Allied Motion Technologies (AMOT), Aehr Test Systems (AEHR), Allient (ALNT), inTEST (INTT), Frequency Electronics (FEIM), and Data I/O (DAIO). These companies are all part of the "instruments to measure electricity" industry.
Veralto (NYSE:VLTO) and Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, Teradyne had 31 more articles in the media than Veralto. MarketBeat recorded 51 mentions for Teradyne and 20 mentions for Veralto. Teradyne's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Veralto's score of 0.37 indicating that Veralto is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Veralto pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Teradyne pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Teradyne pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Veralto has higher revenue and earnings than Teradyne.
Teradyne has a net margin of 18.33% compared to Teradyne's net margin of 15.60%. Teradyne's return on equity of 62.93% beat Veralto's return on equity.
Veralto presently has a consensus price target of $97.08, indicating a potential downside of 7.43%. Teradyne has a consensus price target of $141.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.89%. Given Veralto's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Teradyne is more favorable than Veralto.
91.3% of Veralto shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of Teradyne shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Veralto shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Teradyne shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Teradyne received 52 more outperform votes than Veralto when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.14% of users gave Veralto an outperform vote while only 44.76% of users gave Teradyne an outperform vote.
Summary
Teradyne beats Veralto on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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