Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.000-0.000 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS 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.

Intel Trading Up 1.3 %

INTC stock traded up $0.26 during trading on Thursday, hitting $20.01. The company had a trading volume of 98,034,533 shares, compared to its average volume of 70,564,117. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $20.97 and a 200-day moving average price of $22.63. The stock has a market cap of $86.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -5.38, a PEG ratio of 9.72 and a beta of 1.07. Intel has a 12 month low of $18.51 and a 12 month 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.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January 30th. The chip maker reported ($0.02) earnings per share 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%. As a group, analysts predict that Intel will post -0.87 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages have commented on INTC. Hsbc Global Res upgraded shares of Intel from a “moderate sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 21st. Northland Securities dropped their price objective on Intel from $42.00 to $28.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, November 1st. Barclays decreased their target price on Intel from $25.00 to $23.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, January 17th. UBS Group decreased their price objective on shares of Intel from $26.00 to $23.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 21st. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price target on shares of Intel from $22.00 to $21.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 21st. Five research 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 stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Intel currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $28.00.

Insider Buying and Selling

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

About Intel

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.