Shares in Teradyne, Inc. show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term, which suggests that the rising trend should be followed.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
Strengths
● Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
● 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.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
● The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
● Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
● 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.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
● In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively 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%).