Weiss Ratings Reiterates Sell (D) Rating for Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)‘s stock had its “sell (d)” rating reaffirmed by equities researchers at Weiss Ratings in a report released on Wednesday,Weiss Ratings reports.

A number of other research analysts have also recently issued reports on the stock. DZ Bank reissued a “sell” rating on shares of Intel in a research note on Friday, September 19th. Roth Capital restated a “neutral” rating and set a $30.00 target price on shares of Intel in a research note on Thursday, September 18th. Erste Group Bank raised Intel from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, September 22nd. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their price target on Intel from $21.00 to $24.50 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, July 21st. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald lifted their target price on Intel from $26.00 to $36.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, September 19th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, twenty-three have issued a Hold rating and seven have issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Reduce” and an average target price of $26.30.

Intel Stock Up 0.7%

INTC stock opened at $37.43 on Wednesday. The company has a market cap of $163.83 billion, a PE ratio of -7.85 and a beta of 1.33. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $26.46 and a 200 day simple moving average of $23.06. Intel has a 52 week low of $17.67 and a 52 week high of $38.68. The company has a quick ratio of 0.92, a current ratio of 1.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last released its earnings results on Thursday, July 24th. The chip maker reported ($0.10) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.01 by ($0.11). Intel had a negative net margin of 38.64% and a negative return on equity of 3.78%. The firm had revenue of $12.86 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $11.88 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.02 earnings per share. Intel’s quarterly revenue was up .5% compared to the same quarter last year. Intel has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.000-0.000 EPS. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Intel will post -0.11 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Norges Bank acquired a new position in Intel in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $1,579,378,000. Nuveen LLC bought a new stake in shares of Intel in the first quarter worth $538,430,000. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC bought a new stake in shares of Intel in the second quarter worth $345,245,000. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD lifted its holdings in Intel by 99.8% during the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 29,829,385 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $677,426,000 after buying an additional 14,901,457 shares during the period. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its holdings in Intel by 133.3% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 18,758,658 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $426,009,000 after buying an additional 10,719,274 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 64.53% of the company’s stock.

About Intel

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.