Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Issues Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.12 EPS

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC - Get Free Report) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The chip maker reported $0.13 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.01 by $0.12, RTT News reports. Intel had a negative net margin of 35.32% and a negative return on equity of 3.27%. The company had revenue of $12.67 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $12.26 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.18 earnings per share. Intel updated its Q2 2025 guidance to 0.000-0.000 EPS.

Intel Price Performance

Shares of INTC traded down $1.44 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $20.05. The company had a trading volume of 147,372,216 shares, compared to its average volume of 79,618,108. The company has a current ratio of 1.33, a quick ratio of 0.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44. Intel has a 12-month low of $17.67 and a 12-month high of $37.16. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $21.92 and a 200-day simple moving average of $21.87. The company has a market capitalization of $87.43 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.58 and a beta of 1.13.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

INTC has been the subject of a number of research reports. Stifel Nicolaus reduced their price target on shares of Intel from $25.00 to $21.00 and set a "hold" rating for the company in a research report on Friday, January 31st. Bank of America raised Intel from an "underperform" rating to a "neutral" rating and upped their target price for the company from $19.00 to $25.00 in a research report on Thursday, March 13th. Truist Financial dropped their price target on Intel from $22.00 to $21.00 and set a "hold" rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, January 31st. UBS Group reduced their price objective on Intel from $22.00 to $21.00 and set a "neutral" rating for the company in a research note on Friday. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company lowered their target price on shares of Intel from $25.00 to $22.00 and set an "equal weight" rating on the stock in a research report on Friday. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-six have issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and a consensus price target of $22.83.

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.