Compare · POWL vs TER
POWL vs TER
Side-by-side comparison of Powell Industries Inc. (POWL) and Teradyne Inc. (TER): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- POWL operates in Energy, while TER operates in Industrials - the two are in different parts of the market.
- TER is the larger of the two at $53.66B, about 8.6x POWL ($6.22B).
- TER has been more active in the news (13 items in the past 4 weeks vs 10 for POWL).
- TER has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 5 for POWL).
- Company
- Powell Industries Inc.
- Teradyne Inc.
- Price
- -
- -
- Market cap
- $6.22B
- $53.66B
- 1M return
- -6.59%
- -
- 1Y return
- +49.60%
- -
- Industry
- Electrical Products
- Electrical Products
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 10
- 13
- Recent ratings
- 5
- 25
Powell Industries Inc.
Powell Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services custom-engineered equipment and systems for the distribution, control, and monitoring of electrical energy. The company's principal products include integrated power control room substations, custom-engineered modules, electrical houses, medium-voltage circuit breakers, monitoring and control communications systems, motor control centers, and bus duct systems, as well as traditional and arc-resistant distribution switchgears and control gears. Its products have application in voltages ranging from 480 volts to 38,000 volts; and are used in oil and gas refining, offshore oil and gas production, petrochemical, liquid natural gas terminals, pipeline, terminal, mining and metals, light rail traction power, electric utility, pulp and paper, and other heavy industrial markets. It also provides value-added services, such as spare parts, field service inspection, installation, commissioning, modification and repair, retrofit and retrofill components for existing systems, and replacement circuit breakers for switchgear. The company has operations in the United States, Canada, the Middle East, Africa, the Far East, Europe, Mexico, and Central and South America. Powell Industries, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Teradyne Inc.
Teradyne, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports automatic test equipment worldwide. The company operates through Semiconductor Test, System Test, Industrial Automation, and Wireless Test segments. The Semiconductor Test segment offers products and services for wafer level and device package testing in automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, smartphones, computer and electronic game, and other applications. This segment also provides FLEX test platform systems; J750 test system to address the volume semiconductor devices; Magnum platform that tests memory devices, such as flash memory and DRAM; and ETS platform for semiconductor manufacturers, and assembly and test subcontractors in the analog/mixed signal markets. It serves integrated device manufacturers that integrate the fabrication of silicon wafers into their business; fabless companies that outsource the manufacturing of silicon wafers; foundries; and semiconductor assembly and test providers. The System Test segment offers defense/aerospace test instrumentation and systems; storage test systems; and circuit-board test and inspection systems. The Industrial Automation segment provides collaborative robotic arms, autonomous mobile robots, and advanced robotic control software for manufacturing, logistics, and light industrial customers. The Wireless Test segment provides test solutions for use in the development and manufacture of wireless devices and modules, smart phones, tablets, notebooks, laptops, peripherals, and Internet-of-Things devices under the LitePoint brand name. This segment also offers IQxel products for Wi-Fi and other standards; IQxstream solution for testing GSM, EDGE, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, HSPA+, LTE-FDD, TD_LTE, LTE-A, and 5G technologies; IQcell, a multi-device cellular signaling test solution; IQgig test solution; and turnkey test software for wireless chipsets. The company was incorporated in 1960 and is headquartered in North Reading, Massachusetts.
Latest POWL
- Vice President, R&D Mauney William Marshall Jr sold $56,489 worth of shares (301 units at $187.67) and was granted 525 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 11,077 units (SEC Form 4)
- Vice Pres, Global Service Hoglund Peter G covered exercise/tax liability with 99 shares and was granted 475 shares, increasing direct ownership by 7% to 5,770 units (SEC Form 4)
- CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICER Tuninetti Davide covered exercise/tax liability with 99 shares and was granted 600 shares, increasing direct ownership by 16% to 3,711 units (SEC Form 4)
- Managing Director Birchall John covered exercise/tax liability with 599 shares and was granted 400 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 19,502 units (SEC Form 4)
- Assistant Secretary/Treasurer Eckenrode David L was granted 165 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 230 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 1,264 units (SEC Form 4)
- Corp Controller Ni Ping covered exercise/tax liability with 230 shares and was granted 200 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.49% to 6,039 units (SEC Form 4)
- Vice President, Operations Mckertcher Terry B was granted 600 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 700 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.75% to 13,199 units (SEC Form 4)
- Vice President, Operations Johnson James Edgar Jr was granted 625 shares, increasing direct ownership by 57% to 1,725 units (SEC Form 4)
- Exec Vice President Metcalf Michael William was granted 2,000 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 1,401 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.76% to 79,499 units (SEC Form 4)
- President & CEO Cope Brett Alan sold $900,628 worth of shares (4,799 units at $187.67) and was granted 7,100 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.45% to 515,034 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest TER
- Teradyne to Announce Third Quarter 2026 Results
- FormFactor and Teradyne Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Next-Generation Semiconductor Testing
- Teradyne Introduces UltraFLEXplus S Series for Edge AI Applications
- Teradyne Introduces Titan HP Platform with Burn-In Capabilities for Advanced AI Data Center Devices
- Teradyne Makes Strategic Investment in Bright Machines to Advance AI Infrastructure Manufacturing
- Director Johnson Mercedes sold $67,284 worth of shares (167 units at $402.90) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 6,197 units (SEC Form 4)
- Teradyne Announces Magnum E2 to Address Next-Generation Memory Test Demands Driven by AI and High-Performance Computing
- Director Herweck Peter was granted 77 shares and acquired 4 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.50% to 16,282 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Tufano Paul J was granted 141 shares and acquired 19 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.24% to 66,008 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Maddock Ernest E acquired 2 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.02% to 10,269 units (SEC Form 4)