The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
Teledyne Technologies
TDY · a US exchange · USD · Market cap $28.7B · 15,800 employees
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally.
PASS · Titan Ethical · score 91.3Price as of 16 Oct 2026Daily close, not a live quoteLast reviewed 9 days ago
Screened 2026-10-16 · the tape above runs as of 08:04 UTC · two dates, stated on purpose · verdict and workings shown in full · never trimmed
Key facts today
- Price618.60 USD at the 16 Oct 2026 close
- Our ratingFair value, current read accumulation
- Ethical screenPasses, score 91.3 out of 100
- OptionsOpen interest leans to puts (put/call 2.17)
- Last reviewed16 Oct 2026 (9 days ago)
A summary of the dated readings below, not a live quote and not advice.
What this means: price 618.60 against the desk's fair-value range, base estimate 728.22, over the last year.
- Trend Accumulation
- Insiders no filings inside 60 days, left as found
- Positioning political selling, disclosed 2026-09-25
- Options put/call open interest 2.17, read 2026-10-24
- Ethical passes the values gate
Our analytic regime reads on this name, dated and marked against the screened price. Small sample per name, and separate from the daily-framework accuracy on the Track Record page.
This name holds its accumulation label.
Teledyne Technologies holds its Accumulation at $618.60. Consolidating, no directional conviction, held for 68 days.
| Phase | Accumulation |
| Quantitative state | Consolidating, no directional conviction, held for 68 days |
| Price at the screen | $618.60 |
| Valuation | 29.93 trailing · 23.09 forward price to earnings |
| Values screen | PASS · score 91.3 |
| Beta | 0.90 |
Five Screens, Shown in Full
Full pass across all five screens. This security clears the Titan Ethical Standard: its business and its balance sheet both stay inside the lines.
| Test | Figure | Limit | What it means | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business activity | Permissible | Core business clean | Its core business isn't built on prohibited lines: no gambling, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, or interest-based lending. | Pass |
| Debt load | 17.29% | Below 33% | Interest-bearing debt is just 17.3% of its assets, well under the one-third ceiling: it does not run on borrowed money. | Pass |
| Interest-bearing cash | 0.00% | Below 33% | Cash held in interest-bearing accounts and securities is 0.0% of assets, under the one-third limit. | Pass |
| Receivables | 8.80% | Below 49% | Money owed to the company is 8.8% of assets, under the 49% limit. | Pass |
| Revenue purity | 0.00% | Below 5% | Only 0.0% of revenue comes from non-compliant sources, under the 5% line. | Pass |
Five checks adapted from AAOIFI screening standards: business activity plus four balance-sheet ratios. All five must pass for ethical clearance. Every figure is arithmetic on public accounts, not judgement.
The Ethical ReadWhy It Clears, in Plain English
Teledyne Technologies clears all five screens. Its business is in a permissible area, its interest-bearing debt is about 17%, inside the ~33% line, and almost none of its income is interest, so it passes.
Read as at 2026-10-24. It updates when the underlying figures move, and past reads are kept below.
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The quantitative screen above is arithmetic and this name passes it. Separately, community boycott lists cite this company: Documented on AFSC Investigate. The desk records that flag here without folding it into the verdict: the screen measures the balance sheet, the overlay informs the conscience, and they are different judgements that belong to different owners. The second one is yours.
The Fair Value Range
Our analysis reads FAIR VALUE: it trades at roughly a 18% discount to our $728.22 fair value, narrow competitive moat, 9.80% revenue growth.
Fair value range in USD, drawn from the 2026-10-16 screen. The gold marker is the market price at the same screen. A 17.7% margin of safety to the base estimate.
Third-party analyst targets: 12 covering, consensus Buy. The average target sits +23% from the screen price.
Reading the gap · Both our model and the analysts see meaningful upside from here.
Price History & ProjectionsWhere it has been, where the models see it going. History from market close data; projection points are our fair-value estimates and third-party analyst targets, dated to the 2026-10-16 screen.
Fair value and rating are our own model estimates; the Street's range reflects third-party analyst estimates. Analysis, not advice.
The Business, in Plain WordsSensors Powering Industry Face a Steep Price
Picture the infrared cameras and digital sensors quietly enabling factory automation and medical imaging across continents. Teledyne delivers those enabling technologies with steady 8% revenue growth and a clean ethical screen, yet the shares sit at 24.4 times forward earnings while the opportunity rating flags them overvalued against a narrow moat and modest 9% return on equity.
That combination leaves little room for error. Profit margins of 15% look respectable, but the low return on capital and limited competitive edge suggest the business may struggle to compound value faster than the current price already assumes.
Analyst targets cluster near 750, yet history shows narrow-moat industrial suppliers often trade down when growth slows or cycles turn. The 12% gap to stated fair value does not change the overvalued verdict at these multiples.
Analysis, not advice.
| Forward P/E | 23.1xexpensive even after accounting for its growth |
| Trailing P/E | 29.9xa premium valuation |
| EPS, trailing | 20.67 |
| EPS, forward | 26.79 |
| Revenue growth | +9.8%steady growth |
| Profit margin | 15.3%healthy profit margins |
| Return on equity | 9.2%a modest return on shareholder capital |
| FCF yield | 3.18% |
| Debt to equity | 0.19minimal debt: a conservative balance sheet |
| Current ratio | 2.18comfortably covers its short-term bills |
| Beta | 0.90steadier than the market |
| Short interest, float | 0.03% |
| 52-week range | 483.02 - 697.67 |
| Moat | NARROW |
| Market cap | $28.7B |
| Employees | 15,800 |
The risks · The main risks here are ordinary market swings and the chance our fair-value read proves too optimistic.
Plain-English interpretation of our own screen data. Analysis, not advice.
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The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is holding around 8% above its long-term trend line with momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.2% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is holding around 8% above its long-term trend line with momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved up 1.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is holding around 8% above its long-term trend line with momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is holding around 8% above its long-term trend line with momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved up 0.5% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is holding around 8% above its long-term trend line with momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The framework has shifted from markdown to accumulation since the last review. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is holding around 8% above its long-term trend line with momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729.
Our analysis reads markdown. Price is trending lower. Sellers are in control and the prior trend has reversed. Price has moved up 2.6% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is holding around 8% above its long-term trend line with momentum reading neutral. Over the past year the shares are up 20%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 20%. The street (13 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $729.
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| Date | Insider | Title | Type | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-22 | VANWEES JASON | Officer | 126 | · | |
| 2026-04-22 | KUMBIER MICHELLE A | Director | 319 | · | |
| 2026-04-22 | MORALES VINCENT J | Director | 319 | · | |
| 2026-04-22 | SHERBURNE JANE CECILE | Director | 319 | · | |
| 2026-04-22 | BLACK LAURA A | Director | 319 | · | |
| 2026-04-22 | LORNE SIMON M | Director | 319 | · | |
| 2026-04-22 | VON SCHACK WESLEY W | Director | 319 | · | |
| 2026-04-22 | MALONE ROBERT A | Director | 319 | · | |
| 2026-04-22 | SMITH MICHAEL T. | Director | 319 | · | |
| 2026-02-03 | VANWEES JASON | Officer | 7,500 | $4,730,783 |
Public filings, recorded as found. The full tape lives at Insider Intelligence.
| Date | Politician | Party | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 | Ro Khanna | Democrat | sell | 1K–15K |
| 2026-08-25 | April McClain Delaney | Democrat | sell | 15K–50K |
| 2026-08-25 | April McClain Delaney | Democrat | sell | 15K–50K |
| 2026-08-25 | April McClain Delaney | Democrat | sell | 15K–50K |
| 2026-08-25 | April McClain Delaney | Democrat | sell | 15K–50K |
| Period | Price then | Price return | Divs per share | $1,000 became | Total return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | $632.58 | -4.9% | · | $951 | -4.9% |
| 2 months | $645.74 | -6.8% | · | $932 | -6.8% |
| 3 months | $646.57 | -7.0% | · | $931 | -7.0% |
| 6 months | $523.11 | +15.0% | · | $1,150 | +15.0% |
| 1 year | $500.56 | +20.2% | · | $1,202 | +20.2% |
| 2 years | $389.08 | +54.6% | · | $1,546 | +54.6% |
| 3 years | $391.99 | +53.5% | · | $1,535 | +53.5% |
| 5 years | $424.08 | +41.9% | · | $1,419 | +41.9% |
Historical returns from market close data. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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