Advantest (VANA) Q2 2026 Earnings Report

The call was strongly positive overall. Management described very strong results, raised full-year guidance, cited robust demand across GPU, custom ASIC, and CPU testing, and outlined accelerating capacity expansion, market-share gains, and substantial ATE market opportunities. The principal challenges were higher DDR and component costs, expected margin pressure, memory scarcity, and limited disclosure on the timing of future capacity milestones.

Management said it originally targeted 10,000 systems by the end of fiscal 2028, but the ramp “has to be accelerated pretty significantly,” with “high confidence” and a time frame likely to be pinpointed “in the next quarter or so”; it expects to ship more systems in Q3 and “even higher systems than in Q4,” with Q4 memory systems “quite strong,” while currency-adjusted first-half to second-half top-line growth is expected to be “28% growth, half-over-half.” ATE TAM CAGR has been “about 50% or a little above 50%,” is not expected to slow, and customer CAGRs are “mid to high 50s all the way through 2029”; CPO testing is expected to see “a double or tripling every year for the next couple of years,” reaching “somewhere in the billion-dollar ATE market size,” versus an overall SoC market “above $11 billion” growing at a “50%+ CAGR.” SoC tester share rose from 56% in 2024 to 66% in 2025, with a path “above 70%,” the “70% threshold” expected “in the near future,” share gains expected in 2026 and 2027, and the 70% market share expected “in the end of fiscal 2026 and the beginning of the fiscal 2027, in other words, April”; annual margins are “settling in at this low 50s,” pricing is expected to remain competitive with no “material impact,” and the next production-capacity step under discussion is “another doubling from 10,000 to 20,000,” with timing not yet disclosed and possible further detail by Mid-Term Plan 4 in the May timeframe.