Capital Asset Advisory Services LLC Sells 622 Shares of Teradyne, Inc. $TER

Capital Asset Advisory Services LLC lessened its holdings in Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER) by 20.3% during the second quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 2,443 shares of the company’s stock after selling 622 shares during the quarter. Capital Asset Advisory Services LLC’s holdings in Teradyne were worth $225,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the business. Kera Capital Partners Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Teradyne in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $231,000. Strs Ohio purchased a new position in shares of Teradyne in the 1st quarter worth approximately $795,000. Acadian Asset Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Teradyne in the 1st quarter worth approximately $2,398,000. Focus Partners Wealth boosted its stake in shares of Teradyne by 12.0% in the 1st quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 44,766 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,698,000 after buying an additional 4,780 shares during the last quarter. Finally, UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC boosted its stake in shares of Teradyne by 5.0% in the 1st quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 1,337,312 shares of the company’s stock worth $110,462,000 after buying an additional 63,670 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.77% of the company’s stock.

Teradyne Price Performance

NASDAQ:TER opened at $112.24 on Monday. The company has a market cap of $17.85 billion, a P/E ratio of 38.84, a P/E/G ratio of 2.36 and a beta of 1.80. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $106.14 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $91.43. Teradyne, Inc. has a 1 year low of $65.77 and a 1 year high of $144.16.

Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, July 29th. The company reported $0.57 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $651.80 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $649.02 million. Teradyne had a return on equity of 18.16% and a net margin of 16.59%.The business’s quarterly revenue was down 10.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.86 earnings per share. Teradyne has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.690-0.870 EPS. On average, analysts expect that Teradyne, Inc. will post 3.88 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Teradyne Announces Dividend

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

Insider Activity

In other Teradyne news, CEO Gregory Stephen Smith sold 554 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $106.00, for a total transaction of $58,724.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 96,993 shares in the company, valued at $10,281,258. This represents a 0.57% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. 0.16% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities analysts have recently weighed in on TER shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $102.00 target price (up previously from $88.00) on shares of Teradyne in a research note on Thursday, July 17th. Wall Street Zen upgraded Teradyne from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, September 1st. Cantor Fitzgerald set a $105.00 price objective on Teradyne and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, June 24th. UBS Group reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $130.00 price objective (up previously from $120.00) on shares of Teradyne in a research note on Thursday, July 31st. Finally, Morgan Stanley upgraded Teradyne from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and upped their price objective for the company from $74.00 to $100.00 in a research note on Thursday, July 31st. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have assigned a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $114.44.

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.