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$62.96B
Shares
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Earnings call · FY2025 Q4

Teradyne, Inc Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

Teradyne, Inc Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

Concluded Feb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026 61 turns
Period
FY2025 Q4
Runtime
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Executive readout · one minute

What matters this quarter

Teradyne's Q4 2025 revenue of $1.083 billion beat the high end of guidance, up 44% year-over-year and 41% sequentially, driven by AI-related demand in compute and memory, with full-year 2025 revenue up 13% to $3.19 billion. The company introduced a new target earnings model and guided Q1 2026 revenue to $1.15–$1.25 billion.

AI-driven revenue growth 60 Semiconductor Test (SoC and memory) 27 Robotics and physical AI 25 Target earnings model and TAM outlook 19 IST (Interconnect & Storage Test) 14 Product Test segment 14

Management tone

Confident

Net tone +62 · moderate hedging

Grounding quotes
  • “Our full-year financial results indicate a successful shift toward AI-driven demand in high-performance computing.”
  • “This balance helps mitigate risks in our target earnings model.”
  • “Forecasting growth rates will be challenging due to high concentration and unpredictable product ramp-ups, as a large socket migration across year boundaries could greatly impact year-over-year growth.”
  • “While this uncertainty complicates predicting the 2026 SoC total addressable market, we are forecasting strong year-over-year TAM growth.”

Forward guidance

3 guided metrics

Management's latest ranges and targets are included below.

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Revenue · derived Q4 $1.08B +43.9% YoY
Gross margin · derived Q4 57.2% -2.2 pp YoY
Net income · derived Q4 $257.22M +75.9% YoY

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Key takeaways

What improved, and what deserves a closer read.

Constructive signals

  • Q4 revenue of $1.083B exceeded the high end of guidance, up 44% YoY and 41% sequentially, with non-GAAP EPS of $1.80 (up from $0.95) and over 100% non-GAAP earnings growth
  • AI-driven revenue rose from 40–50% in Q3 to over 60% in Q4, with compute revenue up 90% YoY in 2025 and becoming the largest revenue portion
  • Semiconductor Test Group grew 19% YoY in 2025, with SoC test up 23% and share gains in HBM and DRAM final tests
  • IST business grew over 50% from 2024 to 2025, with new mobile SLT and compute SLT customer wins plus a new HDD order ramping in 2026
  • Q1 2026 revenue guided to $1.15B–$1.25B with non-GAAP EPS of $1.89–$2.25, and AI expected to drive upwards of 70% of Q1 revenue
  • Robotics targets breakeven in 2026, with large e-commerce customer revenue expected to triple between 2025 and 2026

Risks & pressure points

  • Three 10% customers in Q4 highlight customer concentration risk, and VIP compute revenue concentration is expected to continue causing lumpiness and forecasting challenges
  • 2026 SoC TAM visibility is limited, with growth rates described as challenging to forecast and mobile TAM uncertainty around device complexity versus volume and capital efficiency
  • Mobile installed base of testers may be optimized to limit additional capacity needs, potentially constraining TAM growth
  • Gain in compute share could be dilutive to overall share if compute TAM grows disproportionately, even with share gains in each segment
  • Memory TAM declined about 4% in 2025 versus 2024, with DRAM/FLASH mix heavily skewed to DRAM/HBM creating concentration risk

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“Looking ahead to Q1 of 2026, we anticipate that AI applications will drive upwards of 70% of our revenue.” Gregory Smith, CEO
“We foresee the ATE total addressable market reaching between $12 billion and $14 billion, up from approximately $9 billion in 2025. Based on our long-term model, we expect Teradyne to attain nearly double the revenue of 2025 and 2.5 times the earnings per share.” Gregory Smith, CEO

Forward guidance

From the 8-K filed Feb 3, 2026.

Metric Guided
First quarter revenue guidance
first quarter of 2026
$1.15B – $1.25B
GAAP net income per diluted share
first quarter of 2026
$1.82 – $2.19
Non-GAAP net income per diluted share
first quarter of 2026
$1.89 – $2.25

Quarter detail

How the reported period landed and where the business moved.

Capital returned

Buybacks · derived
$183.44M
Dividend / share
$0.13
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