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Intel Corp.

$INTC·$475B·Semiconductors·Technology
$89.85-5.8%YTD+172.2%1Y+143.9%
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$INTCIntel Corp.
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Top X posts

The complete picture of $INTC on X — how loud the conversation is right now, how it has trended over the last two weeks, and which way the crowd is leaning.

5,686X posts · last 7 days
Sep 29Oct 11
Chatter Meter
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How loud $INTC's conversation on X is versus its own normal — 1× is typical, higher means busier. Right now it's about its usual level, louder than 55% of tracked names.

Bullish sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data32 posts analyzed · as of 2026-10-02

Sentiment is firmly bullish after a 29% week — the crowd calls this the next leg of the semi rotation, citing $276M in net call buying, Tan admitting Intel can only meet 50% of CPU demand, and 18A reaching credible-foundry status. Technicians are already drawing $140 and $170 targets, and one voice flatly claims INTC "will never be sub $100 again."

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AI verdictAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

TickerTalks' own read on what's driving $INTC — fundamentals, momentum, or an event — and whether it agrees with the X crowd.

Comeback attemptAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-10-03

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

The year's biggest comeback in big tech — now the question is whether the foundry story can keep validating the move.

Intel is the x86 CPU and foundry company most investors had written off eighteen months ago. Up 216% YTD, the stock is pricing a very different company — one where 18A actually works and CPU demand is suddenly outstripping supply.

  • The order book has flipped faster than the P&L shows: CEO Lip-Bu Tan saying Intel can only meet 50% of CPU demand is a shortage, which is the mirror image of the glut narrative that cratered the stock, and the Street has already lifted Q3 EPS estimates after four straight triple-digit surprises.
  • The P&L is still catching up: Q1 FY26 operating margin was -23% and the company is burning free cash flow at ~$2.5B a quarter, so this is a story being bought on forward foundry economics, not current margins.

October 22 earnings is the first real stress test since the breakout — the market needs to see 18A yields trending in-line with the credibility narrative, foundry customers named, and the free-cash-flow trough starting to curve up. A clean print extends the run; soft foundry commentary is the first excuse to lock in gains.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bull read on 18A, call-buying activity, and the CPU-shortage comment is grounded. The 'never sub $100 again' line is where I'd push back — the P&L hasn't caught up to the story yet, and turnarounds that outrun their fundamentals usually revisit the launch pad at least once.

What to watch: Oct 22 earnings — 18A yield commentary, named foundry wins, Q4 revenue guide, and free-cash-flow trajectory. A guide-up with new customer names extends it; silence on foundry traction is the first warning.

On the calendar: 2026-10-22 — Q3 earnings

event ahead 30dhigh momentum

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Designs and manufactures x86 CPUs for PCs and data centers while building a foundry business for third-party chips.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Semiconductors sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $INTC.

Semiconductors · Technology

No material change from last week — hyperscaler AI capex remains the structural driver with Blackwell supply still packaging-constrained. Jensen Huang publicly named memory bandwidth as AI's next bottleneck, reinforcing HBM3e pricing power. AVGO custom ASIC demand broadens AI beneficiaries beyond NVDA's GPU allocation.

What this means for $INTC

Direct beneficiary — Designs and manufactures x86 CPUs for PCs and data centers while building a foundry business for third-party chips.; core silicon directly in the AI training/inference supply chain pulling hyperscaler capex.

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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-183.7How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-2.8%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-9.4%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-0.5%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
10.7Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-3.0%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
35.4%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.4Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Jul 23, 2026$0.42$0.22+93.3%
Q1 2026Apr 23, 2026$0.29$0.02+1428.7%
Q4 2025Jan 22, 2026$0.15$0.08+84.4%
Q3 2025Oct 23, 2025$0.23$0.02+1191.4%
Next earningsThu, Oct 29·consensus EPS $0.40

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$13.6B+7.2%39.4%-23.1%$-0.73$-2.5B
Q4 FY25$13.7B-4.1%36.1%4.0%$-0.12$800.0M
Q3 FY25$13.7B+2.8%38.2%5.0%$0.90$121.0M
Q2 FY25$12.9B+0.2%27.5%-24.7%$-0.67$-1.5B

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 37 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$63.2B$59.5B – $64.5B$1.55$1.26 – $1.6334
FY27$73.2B$66.4B – $80.3B$2.14$1.74 – $2.6737
FY28$84.1B$72.8B – $100.0B$3.22$2.00 – $5.5334
FY29$98.5B$89.2B – $112.1B$4.59$4.03 – $5.4226
FY30$125.4B$113.5B – $142.8B$6.60$5.79 – $7.7930

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.1.1×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.52%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-12.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+6.3%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMega float · 4.6B shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today2.6% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β2.235-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.FilingActive offeringA shelf registration (S-3 / S-3ASR / S-1) or prospectus supplement (424B*) was filed in the last 90 days — the company is registered to (or actively) issuing new shares. Dilution risk.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

BuyAug 11Lip Bu TanCEO105.3K sh$10.0MSellMay 29Nagasubramaniyan ChandrasekaranEVP, CT & Ops Off, GM Foundry21.0K sh$2.5MSellMay 1Miller Boise AprilEVP and Chief Legal Officer40.3K sh$4.0M
+ 29 other (13 awards · 13 exempts · 3 inkinds) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KPress release / Reg FDAug 128-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

Intel Corporation (INTC) filed an 8-K on August 13, 2026 (event date August 10) under Items 7.01 and 8.01, furnishing Regulation FD investor materials and reporting other events. The excerpt is the cover page; the specific investor materials and event details are in the attached exhibits. Filed the day after Intel's massive $20B equity offering, this likely represents investor relations materials distributed in connection with that capital raise. Intel is a leading semiconductor design and manufacturing company undergoing a major foundry strategy transformation.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)Aug 12424B5
AI summary

Intel Corporation (INTC) filed a 424B5 prospectus supplement on August 13, 2026, pricing a secondary equity offering of 210,526,315 shares of common stock at $95.00 per share, raising approximately $20 billion in gross proceeds — one of the largest equity offerings in recent U.S. capital markets history. The underwriting syndicate includes JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup. The capital raise signals Intel's need for substantial cash to fund its Intel Foundry Services buildout and manufacturing capacity expansion. At $95/share and 210M new shares, the offering represents significant dilution to existing shareholders.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)Aug 10424B5
AI summary

Intel (INTC) filed a preliminary 424B5 prospectus supplement for a large common stock offering; the per-share price and total amount are left blank (preliminary). Intel has granted the underwriters an overallotment option to purchase up to an additional $2.25 billion of shares. Joint book-running managers are J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup. Settlement is expected on or about August 2026 once the final terms are set. This is filed concurrently with an S-3ASR automatic shelf registration.

S-3ASRAuto-shelf registrationAug 10S-3ASR
AI summary

Intel Corporation (INTC) filed a Form S-3ASR (automatic shelf registration statement) to register an unspecified amount of common stock to be offered by Intel or selling securityholders from time to time. As a large accelerated filer, Intel qualifies for automatic effectiveness upon filing under Rule 462(e). This shelf provides the legal framework for the concurrent 424B5 offering and future capital markets transactions.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 223
AI summary

Aliyar Katouzian, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the CC & Physical AI Group at Intel Corporation (INTC), filed an initial Form 3 on May 15, 2026 with no non-derivative securities listed as beneficially owned. This is a routine initial ownership filing required upon appointment as a new officer; Katouzian's role in Intel's AI compute division reflects Intel's strategic focus on physical AI and compute.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 223
AI summary

Aparna Bawa, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Chief People Officer at Intel Corporation (INTC), filed an initial Form 3 on May 13, 2026 with no non-derivative securities listed as directly owned. This is a routine initial ownership filing required upon appointment to a new officer role at Intel.

8-KShareholder voteMay 158-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

INTC held its annual meeting of stockholders around 2026-05-15 (8-K Item 5.07). Stockholders elected 11 directors to the board. A non-binding say-on-pay vote on executive compensation was conducted. Independent auditor ratification was approved. Routine governance event — monitor for unusually high withhold votes as an activist signal.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)Apr 29424B5
AI summary

INTC filed a 424B5 prospectus supplement dated 2026-04-29, representing an active capital markets transaction. This represents immediate dilution to existing shareholders.

+ 17 other (2 13Fs · 2 S-8s · 2 IRANNOTICEs · 2 10-Qs) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Not Nvidia. Not TSMC. This Equipment Maker Is the Real Bottleneck in AI Chip Production.fool.com·13h agoCa$htag$: INTC Consumer Sentiment Surge Follows Stock Trendsyoutube.com·14h agoWill Intel (INTC) Beat Estimates Again in Its Next Earnings Report?zacks.com·15h agoIntel and AMD Drop 3% as Rotation Out of AI Chip Stocks Continues; NVIDIA Holds Steady247wallst.com·17h agoIntel Cratered Over The Last 90 Days: This Prominent Analyst Says It's Going to Double247wallst.com·19h ago

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