Intel Corporation $INTC Shares Sold by IFP Advisors Inc

IFP Advisors Inc cut its holdings in shares of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) by 6.1% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 136,736 shares of the chip maker’s stock after selling 8,934 shares during the period. IFP Advisors Inc’s holdings in Intel were worth $5,046,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Capital World Investors lifted its position in shares of Intel by 32.5% in the 3rd quarter. Capital World Investors now owns 86,503,121 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $2,902,180,000 after acquiring an additional 21,230,715 shares in the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Intel by 3.5% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 404,522,308 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $14,926,873,000 after acquiring an additional 13,692,624 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC lifted its position in shares of Intel by 61.3% in the 3rd quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 25,001,621 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $838,804,000 after acquiring an additional 9,503,402 shares in the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp lifted its position in shares of Intel by 18.3% in the 3rd quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 55,521,741 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $1,862,755,000 after acquiring an additional 8,569,812 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Rafferty Asset Management LLC lifted its position in shares of Intel by 66.4% in the 2nd quarter. Rafferty Asset Management LLC now owns 19,396,839 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $434,489,000 after acquiring an additional 7,736,635 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 64.53% of the company’s stock.

Key Intel News

Here are the key news stories impacting Intel this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Intel is benefiting from a broad chip-sector rebound ahead of Nvidia’s earnings, with traders betting the AI infrastructure boom will keep lifting semiconductor stocks. This helped Intel snap a recent losing streak and attract strong volume.
• Positive Sentiment: Reports that Intel is in early-stage talks to acquire AI-chip startup Tenstorrent have boosted sentiment, as the move could strengthen Intel’s AI hardware roadmap and expand its talent pool.
• Positive Sentiment: Several analysts turned more constructive, including Citi raising its price target, while other notes said Intel could have significant upside from the AI CPU market and growing demand for newer chips.
• Neutral Sentiment: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s comments about building a “new Intel” with faster decision-making and flatter management reinforce the turnaround narrative, but they are more strategic than immediately financial.
• Neutral Sentiment: New product and design wins, including Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 Enterprise Edition using Intel Core Ultra processors, support the company’s PC and client business, though the direct stock impact is likely limited near term.
• Negative Sentiment: Some commentary warns the chip rally may be getting crowded and vulnerable to pullbacks if AI enthusiasm cools or if investors rotate out of high-flying semiconductor names.

Insider Activity at Intel

In other news, EVP Boise April Miller sold 40,256 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, May 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $99.53, for a total transaction of $4,006,679.68. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 105,077 shares in the company, valued at $10,458,313.81. This represents a 27.70% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 0.05% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages recently commented on INTC. Citic Securities upgraded shares of Intel from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their price target for the company from $38.90 to $60.30 in a research report on Monday, January 26th. Bank of America upped their price objective on shares of Intel from $48.00 to $56.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. DZ Bank upgraded shares of Intel from a “sell” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Mizuho upped their price objective on shares of Intel to $124.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 12th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a $80.00 price objective on shares of Intel in a research note on Monday, May 4th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eleven have given a Buy rating, twenty-five have given a Hold rating and four have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $81.52.

Intel Stock Performance

Shares of INTC opened at $118.96 on Thursday. The company’s fifty day moving average is $71.57 and its 200-day moving average is $52.43. Intel Corporation has a 12 month low of $18.97 and a 12 month high of $132.75. The firm has a market cap of $597.89 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -191.87 and a beta of 2.18. The company has a quick ratio of 1.85, a current ratio of 2.31 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.34.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The chip maker reported $0.29 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.01 by $0.28. Intel had a negative net margin of 5.90% and a positive return on equity of 0.39%. The company had revenue of $13.58 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $12.32 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.13 EPS. Intel’s quarterly revenue was up 7.4% on a year-over-year basis. Intel has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.200-0.200 EPS. Equities analysts expect that Intel Corporation will post 0.63 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Intel Company Profile

Intel Corporation, founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Moore and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a leading global designer and manufacturer of semiconductor products. The company is historically notable for introducing the first commercial microprocessor and for driving the x86 architecture that underpins many personal computers and servers. Intel’s core business spans the design, fabrication and marketing of processors, chipsets and related components for a wide range of computing applications.

Intel’s product portfolio includes client and mobile processors marketed under brands such as Intel Core and Pentium, as well as high-performance Xeon processors for data centers and cloud infrastructure.