Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Releases Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.14 EPS

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) announced its earnings results on Thursday. The chip maker reported ($0.02) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.12 by ($0.14), Zacks reports. Intel had a negative return on equity of 1.71% and a negative net margin of 29.42%. Intel updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.000-0.000 EPS.

Intel Stock Up 1.3 %

Shares of NASDAQ:INTC traded up $0.26 during trading on Thursday, hitting $20.01. 102,071,077 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 70,822,969. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $20.97 and a 200-day moving average price of $22.63. Intel has a 52 week low of $18.51 and a 52 week high of $46.63. The company has a current ratio of 1.31, a quick ratio of 0.97 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44. The company has a market cap of $86.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -5.38, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 9.72 and a beta of 1.07.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Intel news, EVP Michelle Johnston Holthaus sold 25,000 shares of Intel stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $26.00, for a total value of $650,000.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president now owns 273,258 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $7,104,708. This trade represents a 8.38 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 0.04% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities analysts have commented on INTC shares. Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Intel in a research note on Friday, November 1st. UBS Group decreased their price objective on shares of Intel from $26.00 to $23.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, January 21st. Citigroup lowered their price objective on shares of Intel from $22.00 to $21.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, January 21st. Stifel Nicolaus reiterated a “hold” rating and set a $25.00 target price (down from $28.00) on shares of Intel in a research report on Friday, October 25th. Finally, Bank of America reissued an “underperform” rating and issued a $21.00 price target on shares of Intel in a report on Tuesday, December 3rd. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-seven have issued a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Intel presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $28.00.

Intel Company Profile

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.