Is Terahertz Market Expansion Reshaping The Investment Case For Advantest (TSE:6857)?

• Recently published market research indicates that the Terahertz Technology market is expected to grow from US$818.7 million in 2025 to about US$1.70 billion by 2030, driven mainly by medical, healthcare, military, and homeland security applications.
• With Advantest highlighted as a dominant player in this fast-expanding niche, the company’s exposure to terahertz imaging and spectroscopy could become a more meaningful contributor to its broader test and measurement portfolio.
• We’ll now examine how Advantest’s strengthened position in high-growth terahertz applications could reshape its existing investment narrative and outlook.

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Advantest Investment Narrative Recap

To own Advantest, you need to believe its leadership in semiconductor test can translate into durable earnings power, even through demand “digestion” and AI cycle swings. The terahertz market news highlights an interesting adjacency, but it does not meaningfully change the near term focus on managing a potential second half FY 2025 slowdown and the risk that recent record margins may ease as conditions normalize.

The most relevant recent announcement, in my view, is Advantest’s October guidance upgrade to JPY 950,000 million in full year net sales and JPY 374,000 million in operating income. That reinforces how strong the current cycle is, but it also sharpens the question of what happens to profitability as the company ramps capacity and moves through the expected demand digestion period later in FY 2025.

Yet investors should also be aware that rapid capacity expansion could become a headwind if...

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Advantest’s narrative projects ¥1030.0 billion revenue and ¥274.7 billion earnings by 2028.

Uncover how Advantest's forecasts yield a ¥19218 fair value, a 5% downside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

Three Simply Wall St Community fair value estimates for Advantest span roughly JPY 6,720 to JPY 19,218, showing how far apart individual views can be. Set against that wide range, the current risk of a “temporary digestion period” and potentially less favorable margins underlines why it can pay to compare several of these perspectives before reaching a conclusion.

Explore 3 other fair value estimates on Advantest - why the stock might be worth as much as ¥19218!

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