Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Trading 4.4% Higher - Still a Buy?

Key Points

• Intel shares rose 4.4%, closing at $35.50, with trading volume significantly up at 266.4 million shares, compared to an average of 102 million shares.
• Analyst ratings on Intel show a consensus of "Reduce" with a price target of $25.90, highlighting mixed sentiments as only two analysts rated the stock as a Buy.
• Intel's recent earnings report revealed a loss of ($0.10) EPS, missing estimates, despite a revenue increase of 0.5% year-over-year to $12.86 billion.

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC - Get Free Report) shares rose 4.4% during trading on Friday . The company traded as high as $36.30 and last traded at $35.50. Approximately 266,432,298 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 161% from the average daily volume of 101,999,281 shares. The stock had previously closed at $33.99.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

INTC has been the subject of several analyst reports. Roth Capital reissued a "neutral" rating and issued a $30.00 price objective on shares of Intel in a research note on Thursday, September 18th. Mizuho upped their price target on Intel from $22.00 to $23.00 and gave the stock a "neutral" rating in a report on Thursday, July 3rd. Loop Capital assumed coverage on Intel in a research report on Monday, July 21st. They issued a "hold" rating and a $25.00 price target for the company. Northland Securities lifted their price objective on shares of Intel from $28.00 to $42.00 in a report on Friday, September 19th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities reiterated a "sell" rating and issued a $14.00 target price on shares of Intel in a research note on Friday, July 25th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, twenty-four have given a Hold rating and five have issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of "Reduce" and a consensus price target of $25.90.

Intel Trading Up 4.4%

The firm has a fifty day moving average of $23.92 and a two-hundred day moving average of $22.29. The company has a market cap of $155.38 billion, a PE ratio of -7.44 and a beta of 1.23. The company has a current ratio of 1.24, a quick ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC - Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, July 24th. The chip maker reported ($0.10) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.01 by ($0.11). The business had revenue of $12.86 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $11.88 billion. Intel had a negative return on equity of 3.78% and a negative net margin of 38.64%.Intel's revenue for the quarter was up .5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.02 EPS. Intel has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.000-0.000 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Intel Corporation will post -0.11 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Trading of Intel

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Corient Private Wealth LLC lifted its holdings in Intel by 6.4% during the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 1,148,591 shares of the chip maker's stock worth $25,728,000 after purchasing an additional 68,928 shares in the last quarter. Caldwell Trust Co bought a new stake in shares of Intel during the second quarter valued at about $373,000. V. M. Manning & CO. Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Intel in the second quarter worth about $225,000. PVG Asset Management Corp purchased a new stake in shares of Intel in the second quarter worth about $231,000. Finally, Total Investment Management Inc. bought a new position in shares of Intel in the second quarter valued at approximately $94,000. 64.53% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Intel Company Profile

Intel Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells computing and related products and services worldwide. It operates through Client Computing Group, Data Center and AI, Network and Edge, Mobileye, and Intel Foundry Services segments. The company's products portfolio comprises central processing units and chipsets, system-on-chips (SoCs), and multichip packages; mobile and desktop processors; hardware products comprising graphics processing units (GPUs), domain-specific accelerators, and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); and memory and storage, connectivity and networking, and other semiconductor products.

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