Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.000-0.000 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share 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.

Intel Trading Up 1.3 %

Shares of Intel stock traded up $0.26 during trading on Thursday, hitting $20.01. The stock had a trading volume of 101,156,175 shares, compared to its average volume of 70,822,969. The company has a market capitalization of $86.30 billion, a PE ratio of -5.38, a P/E/G ratio of 9.72 and a beta of 1.07. Intel has a 1 year low of $18.51 and a 1 year 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. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $20.97 and a 200 day simple moving average of $22.63.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January 30th. The chip maker reported ($0.02) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.12 by ($0.14). Intel had a negative return on equity of 1.71% and a negative net margin of 29.42%. On average, research analysts expect that Intel will post -0.87 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages recently weighed in on INTC. Barclays cut their price target on shares of Intel from $25.00 to $23.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, January 17th. Northland Securities lowered their price objective on shares of Intel from $42.00 to $28.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, November 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group lowered their target price on Intel from $22.00 to $21.00 and set a “sell” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, October 17th. Hsbc Global Res raised Intel from a “moderate sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 21st. Finally, Robert W. Baird upped their price target on shares of Intel from $20.00 to $25.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, November 1st. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-seven have given a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $28.00.

Insider Buying and Selling

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