Teradyne (TER) Touches All-Time High on Stellar Earnings

We recently published 10 Stocks Crushing Wall Street With Massive Gains. Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER) was one of the top performers on Tuesday.

Teradyne jumped to a new all-time high on Tuesday, after posting strong earnings performance that settled at the high end of its earlier guidance, thanks to strong demand from the artificial intelligence industry.

At intra-day trading, the stock soared to its highest price of $285.92 before trimming gains to end the day just up by 13.41 percent at $282.98 apiece.

In an earnings call, Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER) said that it grew its net income in the fourth quarter of last year by 76 percent to $257 million from $146 million in the same period a year earlier. Revenues jumped by 43.8 percent to $1.08 billion from $752 million year-on-year.

“Our Q4 results were above the high end of our guidance range, fueled by AI-related demand in compute, networking and memory within our semi test business. Across all of our business groups—semi test, product test, and robotics—we experienced sequential growth, and at the company level we achieved 13 percent growth in 2025,” Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER) CEO Greg Smith said.

“In 2026, we expect year-over-year growth across all of our businesses, with strong momentum in compute driven by AI,” he added.

For the first quarter of the year, Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER) is targeting revenues between $1.15 billion and $1.25 billion, with diluted earnings per share of $1.82 to $2.19.

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