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

A number of research firms recently weighed in on INTC. Truist Financial upped their price target on Intel from $25.00 to $26.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, November 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group cut their price target on shares of Intel from $22.00 to $21.00 and set a “sell” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, October 17th. HSBC raised Intel from a “reduce” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 21st. Stifel Nicolaus reiterated a “hold” rating and set a $25.00 price objective (down from $28.00) on shares of Intel in a research note on Friday, October 25th. Finally, Barclays cut their price target on shares of Intel from $25.00 to $23.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, January 17th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-seven have assigned a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $28.00.

Intel Stock Performance

NASDAQ INTC traded up $0.26 during trading on Thursday, hitting $20.01. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 98,034,533 shares, compared to its average volume of 70,564,117. Intel has a 52 week low of $18.51 and a 52 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. The firm has a market cap of $86.30 billion, a P/E ratio of -5.38, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 9.72 and a beta of 1.07. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $20.97 and a 200 day moving average price of $22.63.

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

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, EVP Michelle Johnston Holthaus sold 25,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on 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 directly owns 273,258 shares in the company, valued at approximately $7,104,708. This represents a 8.38 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Corporate insiders own 0.04% of the company’s stock.

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.