Intel is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company attempting a foundry-led turnaround. The stock thesis depends on Intel 18A and 14A execution, external foundry customers, PC and server share stabilization, strategic backing, and whether restructuring can restore margins.
Intel Corp. (INTC) Stock Price & Market Analysis
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$120.23
▲ +$4.30(+3.71%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeQuote as of Sep 30, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
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Last session93%
$116.00L Sep 30 '26$120.55H Sep 30 '26
52-week80%
$32.89L Nov 21 '25$142.35H Jun 30 '26
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Available history(2000-10-02)84%
$7.40L Oct 9 '02$142.35H Jun 30 '26
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Session market context
- INTCStock · vs previous close
- ↑ +3.71%
- SOXXSemiconductor ETF
- ↑ +0.21%
- QQQNasdaq-100 ETF
- ↑ +0.25%
INTC outperformed the sector by 3.50 percentage points.
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Reported fundamentals
INTC research snapshot
Annual revenue
USD 52.85B
Sales for the fiscal year ended Dec 27, 2025. This is not trailing twelve-month revenue.
Revenue change
-0.5%
Change versus the fiscal year ended Dec 28, 2024.
Net profit margin
-0.5%
Net income divided by revenue for the fiscal year ended Dec 27, 2025. This is not the trailing margin.
These reported results describe the business’s recent scale and profitability. Compare cash generation and valuation before forming an investment view; historical growth is not a forecast.
Company · Profile
About Intel Corp. (INTC)
Sector, leadership, and how Intel Corp. earns its revenue.
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Company · Profile
About Intel Corp. (INTC)
Sector, leadership, and how Intel Corp. earns its revenue.
Intel Corp.
NASDAQ · INTC · US
Company narrative is editorial context. Narratives and leadership records are excluded from current quality ratings.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, CA, United States
- Country
- US
- Founded
- 1971
- Employees
- 85,100
- CEO
- Lip-Bu Tan
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
How Intel Corp. makes money
Foundry
18A and 14A decide the turnaround
Intel Foundry has to prove process leadership, yields, and external customer demand before the market will treat it as a credible TSMC alternative.
Products
Client and server chips still fund the story
Panther Lake, Xeon, and PC/server share trends matter because product cash flow supports the foundry transition.
Leadership
Restructuring is part of the investment case
The source article framed CEO Lip-Bu Tan cultural and cost overhaul as essential because Intel needs faster execution and fewer layers of bureaucracy.
Strategic capital
Government and partner backing reduces but does not remove risk
U.S. government, Nvidia, and SoftBank involvement can validate strategic importance, but operational delivery still determines shareholder returns.
Key takeaways for INTC
INTC is a turnaround and national-semiconductor-capacity thesis, not a simple cheap-chip-stock thesis.
The quote page should track foundry milestones, product share, margins, and external customer wins together.
The main risk is that process delays or weak customer adoption keep Intel structurally behind TSMC and Nvidia-era AI demand.
Business model & operating evidence
AI business exposure
- Revenue exposure
- AI-specific revenue is not separated in the available company statements.
- Capital-spending dependency
- No reviewed quantitative dependency model is available.
- Compute role
- See the sourced business description; AI labels do not establish compute revenue.
- Platform examples
- An exhaustive, consistently defined product inventory is unavailable.
- Ecosystem links
- Supplier and customer links require reviewed disclosures.
Narrative versus numbers
Demand is expanding
Supporting observation: 25.4%
Year-over-year growth in the latest quarter. This is not the fiscal-year revenue change in the snapshot above. · TECHi unified data · 2026-06-27
Growth produces accounting profit
Contradicting observation: -19.8%
Trailing net margin. A positive figure supports profitability, not cash generation, and it is not the fiscal-year margin above. · SEC Companyfacts · 2026-10-01T01:00:11.070Z
The business generates cash after investment
Supporting observation: USD 4.45B
Latest reported free cash flow. It is not a forecast and it is not the fiscal-year snapshot. · SEC Companyfacts · 2026-06-27
These are explicit tests of individual claims, not an overall bull/bear rating. Demand growth can coexist with valuation, concentration and financing risk.
Operating measures
- Revenue
- $16.13Bquarter ended Jun 27, 2026
- Gross margin
- 40.4%quarter ended Jun 27, 2026
- Operating margin
- 11.1%quarter ended Jun 27, 2026
- EPS
- -$2.16quarter ended Jun 27, 2026
- Capital expenditure
- $2.56Bquarter ended Jun 27, 2026
- Free cash flow
- $4.45Bquarter ended Jun 27, 2026
- Free cash flow margin
- 27.6%quarter ended Jun 27, 2026
- Revenue growth year over year
- 25.4%quarter ended Jun 27, 2026
Leadership
CEO: Lip-Bu Tan
Source: Financial Modeling Prep · 2026-10-01T00:05:02.885Z
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