Intel Corporation INTC

What the company does

Intel Corporation is a mega-cap company in the Technology sector (Semiconductors), with a market value of $459.7B, based in the USA.

It employs about 85,100 people and has been listed since Oct 13, 1971.

Intel Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and services computing and related end products and services in the United States, Ireland, Israel, and internationally. It operates through three segments: CCG, DCAI, and Intel Foundry. The company offers client computing group products, including client and commercial CPUs, discrete client GPUs, edge computing, and connectivity products; data center and AI products, such as server CPUs, discrete GPUs, and networking products; and semiconductors comprising wafer fabrication, substrates, and other related products and services.

Cheap or expensive? relatively cheap

The company is loss-making, so it has no P/E — we compare on price-to-sales instead.

Its price-to-sales (P/S) is 8.1 versus 17.0 for 4 direct peers — relatively cheap.

Revenue is growing 25% versus the same quarter last year.

The average analyst price target is 117.14, 35% above the current price (their view, not ours).

The stock sits at 49% of its one-year range (0% = the low, 100% = the high).

The risks

• • The company is loss-making.
• ⚠️ The share count grew 17% in a year — each share owns a smaller slice of the company.
• • The stock is more volatile than average (beta 2.2) — big daily moves both ways.
• • The stock is 39% below its one-year high.
• • Quarterly report in 4 days (2026-10-29) — a day the stock can move a lot.

Strengths

• ✅ Generates free cash flow — profit becomes cash in the bank.
• ✅ Most analysts rate it buy (15 vs 1).
• ✅ Revenue is growing 25% a year.

What changed this week

Over the past week the stock fell 3.2% (for comparison: S&P 500 -0.4%, sector ETF XLK -0.1%).

This week's news

• Earnings Scoreboard: 82% firms beat EPS estimates, 79% post Y/Y earnings growth seekingalpha.com · 2026-10-24
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  [Top view image of text THIRD QUARTER on office desk.] mohd izzuan Earnings season gathered momentum during the last week, with 76 S&P 500 companies reporting results across key sectors, including Financials, Communication Services, Consumer Discretionary, Industrials, and Energy. The results offered a fresh look at… source ↗

• Notable analyst calls this week: Intel, Apple and Zoom among top picks seekingalpha.com · 2026-10-24
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  The S&P 500 (SP500 [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SP500#hasComeFromMpArticle=false#source=section%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews]) closed in the red on Friday, after investors digested corporate results from big companies including Netflix and Meta Platforms during the week. However,… source ↗

• Stock Market Action Plan: A Preelection Week Primer finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-24
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  Investors face a heavy week from the likes of Alphabet and Amazon, along with a Fed meeting and preelection positioning. Continue Reading source ↗

• What Investors Overlooked Before Intel's 127% Run finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-24
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  Intel's year was defined by concrete deals, not just headlines, from Tesla's Terafab choosing its 14A process to Google's multi million TPU order that signaled real foundry demand. For Intel shareholders, the return over the past year was 127.2%, including dividends. If you were deciding whether to buy on 23 October… source ↗

• Investors Figuring Out Agentic AI: Robinhood's Guild finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-23
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  Stephanie Guild, CIO of Robinhood, joins Scarlet Fu and Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Money." They discuss how she is seeing consumers take advantage of the pullback in AI, having cash on the side to invest, and how Robinhood users can now use agentic AI agents to invest on their behalf. View Comments source ↗

• AUSA: V2X President and CEO Jeremy Wensinger finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-23
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  V2X President and CEO Jeremy Wensinger joins J.D. Durkin at AUSA 2026. Video Transcript 00:00 Speaker A And this is one of those systems that you can see here that went from called back of a napkin to being fielded and tested and proven within an eight-month period. 00:21 Speaker B Jeremy Wensinger joins us now here… source ↗

What changed since last week

• The price fell 11.4% since the last summary.