Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.000-0.000 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.090. The company issued revenue guidance of $11.7 billion-$12.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $12.9 billion.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Truist Financial cut their price target on shares of Intel from $22.00 to $21.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a report on Friday. Mizuho reduced their price target on Intel from $23.00 to $21.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Friday, January 10th. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Intel in a report on Friday. Barclays reduced their target price on Intel from $25.00 to $23.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, January 17th. Finally, Hsbc Global Res raised shares of Intel from a “moderate sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 21st. Five analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-seven have issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $26.60.

Intel Trading Down 2.9 %

Shares of Intel stock opened at $19.43 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $83.80 billion, a PE ratio of -5.22, a P/E/G ratio of 9.64 and a beta of 1.07. The business’s fifty day moving average is $20.88 and its two-hundred day moving average is $22.62. Intel has a fifty-two week low of $18.51 and a fifty-two week high of $46.63. The company has a quick ratio of 0.97, a current ratio of 1.31 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January 30th. The chip maker reported ($0.02) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.12 by ($0.14). Intel had a negative net margin of 29.42% and a negative return on equity of 1.71%. Analysts anticipate that Intel will post -0.87 earnings per share for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, EVP Michelle Johnston Holthaus sold 25,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $26.00, for a total transaction of $650,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now owns 273,258 shares in the company, valued at approximately $7,104,708. The trade was a 8.38 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. 0.04% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

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.