Shares in Teradyne, Inc. are approaching an important resistance level. The stock's technical chart suggests that this pivot level will be broken.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● Growth progress expectations are rather promising. Indeed, sales are expected to rise sharply in the coming years.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 65.09 USD
Weaknesses
● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at USD 92.
● The stock is currently in contact with a medium-term resistance that must be gotten rid of so as to resume the upward trend.
● The company's enterprise value to sales, at 4.52 times its current sales, is high.
● The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
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Teradyne, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of automatic test equipments. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- semiconductor tester (72.4%);
- system testing solutions (13.1%): testers of integrated circuit, digital network cards, electronic modules, military and aerospace instruments, car diagnostic systems, etc.;
- industrial automation solutions (9%);
- wireless test solutions (5.5%): for mobiles devices and equipments manufacturers (smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc.).
Net sales break down by source of income into sales of products (86.2%) and services (13.8%; consulting, development, training and technical support services).
Net sales break down geographically as follows: the United States (10.3%), Taiwan (37.8%), China (14.9%), Korea (12.5%), Europe (6.6%), Japan (4.6%), Thailand (4.4%), Singapore (2.4%), Philippines (2.2%), Malaysia (1.8%) and other (2.5%).