Intel Corporation (INTC)
NASDAQInformation TechnologySemiconductorsSnapshot 2026-11-05
$52.25-10.33%
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NASDAQInformation TechnologySemiconductorsSnapshot 2026-11-05
QuarterlyIQ Insights · INTC
How strong the business is — where it ranks within its sector on capital efficiency and cash generation, and how well management has been executing.
How this business ranks within information technology on a research-validated quality screen. As of 2026-11-05.
The screen ranks INTC against its sector on four durable signals: share dilution, return on capital, free-cash-flow yield, and FCF margin. Historically the highest-quality names tended toward better typical outcomes and fewer bad years over multi-year holds (strongest at three years, modest at one), and that pattern showed up even before the price moved. It characterizes business quality, not price direction.
Each leg is a sector-relative percentile (higher is better); 4 of 4 legs were available for this name. The composite is built from these four; the raw value follows each percentile for context.
A forward quality tilt, not a price prediction, and context for your own research rather than a recommendation. Not investment advice.
How management runs the business: capital, margins, balance sheet, and how reliably they guide and deliver.
Each factor is a parallel diagnostic with a clear read of what it shows and how names like it have historically fared. Never aggregated into a single score.
Operating income rose in 2 of the last 3 quarter-over-quarter moves. Historically, Information Technology names rated neutral grew net income 55% of the time over the next year (vs 56% for the rest of the cohort, n=8515).
Not investment advice. Scores describe historical and current data; they are not forecasts of future returns. Consult a licensed advisor before making investment decisions.
Met or beat guidance 88% of the last 8 guided quarters · 72.0% avg surprise
Priorities management has stated in recent disclosures, with status and evidence drawn from earnings calls, filings, and press releases.
Our immediate priority is to unlock additional supply to meet extraordinary demand for our Xeon family, while strengthening our product portfolio and roadmap.
Stated in 3 of 8 supplied quarters. Management reported: “Our immediate priority is to unlock additional supply to meet extraordinary demand for our Xeon family, while strengthening our product portfolio and roadmap.” “We are maximizing and optimizing our factory output to meet customers’ needs.” Revenue was $16.513 billion in 2026-Q3.
“Our immediate priority is to unlock additional supply to meet extraordinary demand for our Xeon family, while strengthening our product portfolio and roadmap.”
““AI-driven compute continues to strengthen, and to support expected growth this year and next across products and foundry, we are meaningfully increasing our investments in equipment, clean room spac…”
“We are maximizing and optimizing our factory output to meet customers’ needs.”
We were very pleased with Q1 gross margins and we will continue to push for gross margin expansion.
Stated in 4 of 8 supplied quarters. Management reported: “We were very pleased with Q1 gross margins and we will continue to push for gross margin expansion.” “To accelerate this simplification, we are taking more costs out of the business and lowering our CY25 (complete year 2025) and CY26 OpEx (operating expenses) targets.” Operating income was $2.522 billion in 2026-Q3.
“We were very pleased with Q1 gross margins and we will continue to push for gross margin expansion.”
“AI is driving unprecedented demand for compute, and as we continue to execute, Intel is well-positioned to capture sustainable growth across our CPU franchise, ASICs, advanced packaging and vast waf…
Stated in 3 of 8 supplied quarters. Management reported: ““AI is driving unprecedented demand for compute, and as we continue to execute, Intel is well-positioned to capture sustainable growth across our CPU franchise, ASICs, advanced packaging and vast wafer foundry network,” said Lip-Bu Tan, Intel CEO.” “As I mentioned last quarter, our investment in Foundry will be disciplined.”
We forecast capital expenditures in 2026 to be flat to last year vs our prior expectation of flat to down, reflecting increased capacity investments to support committed demand and a continued emphas…
Stated in 2 of 8 supplied quarters. Management reported: “We forecast capital expenditures in 2026 to be flat to last year vs our prior expectation of flat to down, reflecting increased capacity investments to support committed demand and a continued emphasis on improving fab productivity and output.” “In addition, as we continue to identify ways to operate our manufacturing network more efficiently, I have directed our teams to find an CEO/CFO Earnings Call Comments additional $2 billion of savings in our gross CapEx (capital expenditures).”
Strengthen the CPU franchise and product roadmap while developing offerings for AI infrastructure, inference, and other customer workloads.
Over the trailing year it converted 0.14x of net income into operating cash flow.
Most sensitive to the broad stock market.
Not enough signal to read sensitivity to real (inflation-adjusted) rates, long-term interest rates, Fed net liquidity, the US dollar (low R² over the window).
30 material management or governance events in the past 24 months, led by capital-allocation actions. Historically, Information Technology names rated volatile grew net income 52% of the time over the next year (vs 57% for the rest of the cohort, n=6008).
Not investment advice. As of 2026-11-05.
“Our goal is to reduce inefficiencies and redundancies and increase accountability at every level of the company.”
“To accelerate this simplification, we are taking more costs out of the business and lowering our CY25 (complete year 2025) and CY26 OpEx (operating expenses) targets.”
“This reflects the aggressive actions we are taking to lower our costs, improve our efficiency and enhance our market competitiveness.”
““AI is driving unprecedented demand for compute, and as we continue to execute, Intel is well-positioned to capture sustainable growth across our CPU franchise, ASICs, advanced packaging and vast waf…”
“As I mentioned last quarter, our investment in Foundry will be disciplined.”
“Job No. 1 is earning the customer’s trust.”
“We forecast capital expenditures in 2026 to be flat to last year vs our prior expectation of flat to down, reflecting increased capacity investments to support committed demand and a continued emphas…”
“In addition, as we continue to identify ways to operate our manufacturing network more efficiently, I have directed our teams to find an CEO/CFO Earnings Call Comments additional $2 billion of savin…”