Intel Corporation $INTC Stock Position Lifted by Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC

Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC lifted its position in Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) by 10.3% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 69,757 shares of the chip maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 6,533 shares during the quarter. Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC’s holdings in Intel were worth $9,740,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in INTC. Norges Bank bought a new position in Intel during the fourth quarter worth $2,233,159,000. Capital Research Global Investors raised its holdings in shares of Intel by 285.9% during the fourth quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 26,619,928 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $982,279,000 after purchasing an additional 19,722,010 shares during the period. Capital World Investors raised its holdings in shares of Intel by 20.3% during the fourth quarter. Capital World Investors now owns 104,060,268 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $3,839,833,000 after purchasing an additional 17,557,147 shares during the period. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Intel by 3.5% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 404,522,308 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $14,926,873,000 after buying an additional 13,692,624 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Morgan Stanley boosted its holdings in shares of Intel by 20.4% in the 4th quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 65,249,269 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $2,407,698,000 after buying an additional 11,056,090 shares during the period. 64.53% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Key Headlines Impacting Intel

Here are the key news stories impacting Intel this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CEO Lip-Bu Tan disclosed a purchase of 105,263 Intel shares at $95 each, worth approximately $10 million. His investment is being viewed as a strong vote of confidence in Intel’s recovery strategy. Intel CEO insider purchase
• Positive Sentiment: Intel’s recently upsized equity offering is expected to provide roughly $20 billion to $23 billion for investments in manufacturing, AI and the foundry business. Reports of improving yields at GlobalFoundries and broader customer interest support the possibility of progress in Intel Foundry. Intel’s capital raise and foundry progress
• Positive Sentiment: SoftBank Group reportedly allocated 66.81% of its disclosed U.S. equity portfolio to Intel, potentially reinforcing the view that the chipmaker could benefit from the long-term AI infrastructure buildout. SoftBank’s Intel investment
• Positive Sentiment: Intel participated in a broader rally across chip and memory stocks as investors continued to favor companies exposed to strong AI spending and semiconductor infrastructure demand. Semiconductor stock market moves
• Neutral Sentiment: CEO Tan said Intel is exploring new memory architectures that bring memory and processors closer together. The initiative could expand Intel’s AI opportunity, but it is still exploratory and offers no near-term revenue assurance. Intel explores memory architectures
• Neutral Sentiment: Institutional signals are mixed: some reports describe new or enlarged semiconductor positions, while Stanley Druckenmiller’s fund was reported to have sold Intel in the second quarter. Druckenmiller’s Intel position
• Negative Sentiment: The equity raise strengthens Intel’s balance sheet but dilutes existing shareholders and raises the execution burden for the turnaround. Intel’s secondary share sale
• Negative Sentiment: At roughly 62 times expected next year’s earnings, Intel’s valuation assumes substantial future profitability even though the company reportedly lost about $11 billion over the past year, much of it noncash. Intel valuation and recent losses

Intel Trading Up 1.0%

Shares of NASDAQ:INTC opened at $103.49 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $522.00 billion, a PE ratio of -49.05 and a beta of 2.22. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $110.12 and its 200 day moving average price is $83.99. Intel Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $22.77 and a fifty-two week high of $142.35. The company has a quick ratio of 1.25, a current ratio of 1.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, July 23rd. The chip maker reported $0.42 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.21 by $0.21. Intel had a negative net margin of 19.79% and a positive return on equity of 2.62%. The firm had revenue of $16.13 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $14.43 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.10) EPS. Intel’s quarterly revenue was up 25.2% on a year-over-year basis. Intel has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 0.380-0.380 EPS. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Intel Corporation will post 1.01 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. New Street Research boosted their price objective on shares of Intel from $100.00 to $122.00 in a research report on Friday, June 26th. Weiss Ratings raised shares of Intel from a “sell (d-)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a report on Tuesday, August 4th. Sanford C. Bernstein reaffirmed a “market perform” rating and set a $110.00 target price on shares of Intel in a report on Monday, July 27th. Susquehanna upped their target price on Intel from $80.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, July 16th. Finally, Roth Capital raised their price target on Intel from $100.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, July 24th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Buy rating, thirty-two have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $107.46.

Insider Activity

In other Intel news, CEO Lip Bu Tan acquired 105,263 shares of Intel stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 11th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of $95.00 per share, for a total transaction of $9,999,985.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 1,314,669 shares in the company, valued at approximately $124,893,555. This represents a 8.70% increase in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 0.05% of the company’s stock.

Intel Profile

Intel Corporation, founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Moore and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a leading global designer and manufacturer of semiconductor products. The company is historically notable for introducing the first commercial microprocessor and for driving the x86 architecture that underpins many personal computers and servers. Intel’s core business spans the design, fabrication and marketing of processors, chipsets and related components for a wide range of computing applications.

Intel’s product portfolio includes client and mobile processors marketed under brands such as Intel Core and Pentium, as well as high-performance Xeon processors for data centers and cloud infrastructure.