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Overview · INTEL CORP
Intel Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells computing and related products worldwide. It operates through Client Computing Group, Data Center and AI, Network and Edge, Mobileye, Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics, Intel Foundry Services, and Other segments. The company offers platform products, such as central processing units and chipsets, and system-on-chip and multichip packages;…
Management team
- Dr. Robert Greg Lavender · Executive VP, CTO & GM of the Office of the Chief Technology OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Michelle C. Johnston Holthaus · Chief Executive Officer of Intel ProductsFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Christoph Schell · Executive VP, Chief Commercial Officer and GM of Sales, Marketing & Communications GroupFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. April Miller Boise J.D. · Executive VP, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate SecretaryFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it, not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.1 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled. The rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed (+ 0.1 of a possible + 2; was + 0.1 before debate) with confidence high. Revenue in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-07-17) was $ 16,128,000,000, up from $ 13,577,000,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-17) and from $ 12,859,000,000 in Q2 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-07-18). Gross profit has risen across recent fiscal periods from $ 3,542,000,000 in Q2 2025 to $ 6,509,000,000 in Q2 2026, while operating income moved from losses in earlier quarters to $ 1,796,000,000 in Q2 2026.
At the same time, net income deteriorated through FY 2026, with a positive $ 4,063,000,000 in Q3 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-10-17) flipping to losses of - $ 3,728,000,000 in Q1 2026 and - $ 11,033,000,000 in Q2 2026. Diluted EPS followed that path, from $ 0.90 in Q3 2025 to - $ 2.16 in Q2 2026. Cash and cash equivalents rose to $ 17,247,000,000 as of 28 March 2026 and then fell to $ 12,874,000,000 as of 27 June 2026, while long-term noncurrent debt increased to $ 48,549,000,000 as of 27 June 2026. Trailing measures show negative free cash flow of - $ 23,301,000,000 and negative EBITDA of - $ 3,633,300,000, with reported TTM EPS of - $ 2.66 and market capitalization of $ 528,106,800,000.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else (no outside knowledge, no browsing), so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC (revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter) and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue for the fiscal quarter ended 27 June 2026 (fiscal Q2 2026, 2026-03-29 to 2026-06-27) was $16,128,000,000, up from $13,577,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 28 March 2026 (fiscal Q1 2026, 2025-12-28 to 2026-03-28) and up from $12,859,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 28 June 2025 (fiscal Q2 2025, 2025-03-30 to 2025-06-28).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000050863-26-000157Gross profit rose across the recent quarters: $3,542,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2025 (2025-03-30 to 2025-06-28), $5,218,000,000 in fiscal Q3 2025 (2025-06-29 to 2025-09-27), $5,347,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2025-12-28 to 2026-03-28), and $6,509,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-03-29 to 2026-06-27).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000050863-26-000157Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full: its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet; its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
Intel filed a Form 10-K on 2026-01-23 (the 10-K filed 23 January 2026) and that document was provided and parsed in the evidence set.
10-K filed 2026-01-23Intel filed a Form 10-K on 2025-01-31 (the 10-K filed 31 January 2025) and that document was provided and parsed in the evidence set.
10-K filed 2025-01-31Reads the signal panel above (momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta) and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Momentum over the past 6 months is +67.8% and ranks in the 93th percentile of the 881-stock research universe on 2026-10-09.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-10-09weakened in debateThe 12-1 momentum measure is +310.5% and ranks in the 99th percentile of the 881-stock research universe on 2026-10-09.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-10-09weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
13F-reported institutional holdings as of 2026-06-30 total "$527.37B" across 3,579 holders, with a quarter-over-quarter reported value change of 234.8% and a holder count increase of 970.
13F holdings · 3579 filers · as of 2026-06-30As of 2026-08-10T23:36:10.324788+00:00, the VanEck Semiconductors ETF (SMH) lists the security at 4.29% weight of fund; other visible ETF weights include IVV at 1.02% (as of 2026-10-07T15:19:38.272911+00:00) and XLK at 0.93% (as of 2026-09-02T01:55:42.282643+00:00).
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Forbes published a headline framing Intel's stock as having 'made a strong comeback' and discussed ways to 'play' that rebound.
News · forbes.com · 2026-10-09KalkineMedia ran a piece titled 'Where Does Intel Stand in the Race for Chip Manufacturing?' that noted Intel both designs processors and operates chip factories and that its shares 'slipped' despite news about new processors supporting an older memory standard.
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-10-09Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5: who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
TAN LIP BU (CEO) bought 105,263 shares for "$10.0M" on 2026-08-11, and the filing does not show a trading plan.
Form 4 · TAN LIP BU (CEO) · $10.0M bought · 2026-08-11Miller Boise April (EVP and Chief Legal Officer) sold 40,256 shares for "$4.0M" on 2026-05-01; the filing does not show a trading plan.
Form 4 · Miller Boise April (EVP and Chief Legal Officer) · $4.0M sold · 2026-05-01Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
Free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is negative $23,301,000,000.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeEBITDA for the trailing twelve months is negative $3,633,300,000.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score. The argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several pieces of the provided evidence jointly support a favorable read: sequential and year-over-year revenue growth (fundamentals-0) alongside rising gross profit across recent quarters (fundamentals-1) and a return to positive operating income in fiscal Q2 2026 (fundamentals-3) indicate improving core business profitability on the company filings. Market signals show unusually strong momentum and technical positioning (market-0, market-1, market-2) that accompany increased institutional ownership and ETF inclusion (ownership-0, ownership-1), which together strengthen a market-based case for renewed investor interest. Insider purchases by the CEO and senior finance/operations executives (insider-0, insider-4, insider-3) add corroborating behavioral evidence of internal confidence. The bear case leans heavily on large accounting losses, negative trailing EPS, and negative free cash flow (fundamentals-2, fundamentals-4, valuation-0, valuation-1), but the simultaneous improvement in operating income and recent cash balance increases (fundamentals-3, fundamentals-6) weaken the claim that operational momentum is absent; the operating-income improvement is direct, high-quality evidence in the filings that contests a purely distressed narrative.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.30
36 surviving claims rest on 20 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 22% of them, and 96% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set rests on a moderate breadth of sources but a small number of analysts supply a meaningful share of surviving claims, and almost all desk-raised points survived internal debate — together this implies the read is informative but somewhat brittle to a few key contributors or a new high-quality source. Source concentration and the high debate survivorship mean the assessment carries weight but would be materially affected if one or two of the largest sources or analyst lines were contradicted or amended.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 2nd of 20 in Semiconductors (as of 2026-10-09).
90-day volatility ranks 7th of 20 in Semiconductors (as of 2026-10-09).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment. When the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.
What this was built from
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here (no outside knowledge, no browsing), and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.
11 filings· 3 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data, not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer−0.5 to the score
6 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash−0.1 to the score
3 holdings records· 2 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.7 to the score
6 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
16 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state, with stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot+0.4 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
Third-party consensus, shown for context only; it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal; the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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