Research Analysts Issue Forecasts for Intel Q2 Earnings

Intel Co. (NASDAQ:INTC) – Equities research analysts at Wedbush cut their Q2 2025 earnings estimates for shares of Intel in a note issued to investors on Monday, January 27th. Wedbush analyst M. Bryson now expects that the chip maker will post earnings of $0.04 per share for the quarter, down from their previous forecast of $0.10. The consensus estimate for Intel’s current full-year earnings is ($0.87) per share. Wedbush also issued estimates for Intel’s Q3 2025 earnings at $0.17 EPS and Q4 2025 earnings at $0.30 EPS.

A number of other equities analysts have also recently weighed in on the stock. UBS Group lowered their target price on Intel from $26.00 to $23.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, January 21st. Stifel Nicolaus restated 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. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Intel in a research report on Friday, November 1st. Mizuho reduced their price target on Intel from $23.00 to $21.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, January 10th. Finally, Truist Financial boosted their price target on Intel from $25.00 to $26.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research 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 given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $27.88.

Intel Stock Down 2.6 %

Intel stock opened at $20.29 on Tuesday. Intel has a fifty-two week low of $18.51 and a fifty-two week high of $46.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44, a current ratio of 1.31 and a quick ratio of 0.97. The firm has a market capitalization of $87.51 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -5.45, a PEG ratio of 9.72 and a beta of 1.07. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $21.23 and its 200 day simple moving average is $22.85.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 31st. The chip maker reported ($0.46) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.02) by ($0.44). Intel had a negative net margin of 29.42% and a negative return on equity of 1.71%. The company had revenue of $13.30 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $13.02 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.28 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was down 6.3% compared to the same quarter last year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. State Street Corp raised its position in shares of Intel by 2.8% during the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 197,958,739 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $4,644,112,000 after acquiring an additional 5,417,753 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its position in Intel by 4.6% during the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 92,510,098 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $2,162,891,000 after purchasing an additional 4,103,553 shares during the period. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC raised its holdings in Intel by 28.2% during the 3rd quarter. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC now owns 58,469,412 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $1,371,692,000 after purchasing an additional 12,865,308 shares during the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp lifted its position in shares of Intel by 27.2% in the 3rd quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 44,013,936 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $967,426,000 after purchasing an additional 9,422,136 shares during the period. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Intel by 7.6% in the 3rd quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 31,690,418 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $743,457,000 after purchasing an additional 2,248,332 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 64.53% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Intel news, EVP Michelle Johnston Holthaus sold 25,000 shares of the company’s 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 completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 273,258 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $7,104,708. This represents a 8.38 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. 0.04% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

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.