Traders Buy High Volume of Call Options on Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) was the recipient of some unusual options trading on Thursday. Stock traders acquired 889,526 call options on the company. This is an increase of 105% compared to the average daily volume of 433,393 call options.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of Intel during the second quarter worth $1,579,378,000. Nuveen LLC bought a new position in Intel during the 1st quarter worth about $538,430,000. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC bought a new position in Intel during the 2nd quarter worth about $345,245,000. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD raised its stake in shares of Intel by 99.8% in the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 29,829,385 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $677,426,000 after purchasing an additional 14,901,457 shares during the period. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Intel by 133.3% in the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 18,758,658 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $426,009,000 after purchasing an additional 10,719,274 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 64.53% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several analysts have recently commented on INTC shares. Loop Capital started coverage on Intel in a report on Monday, July 21st. They set a “hold” rating and a $25.00 target price on the stock. Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Intel in a report on Friday, July 25th. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their target price on shares of Intel from $21.00 to $24.50 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, July 21st. Sanford C. Bernstein reissued a “market perform” rating on shares of Intel in a research note on Tuesday, August 19th. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised shares of Intel from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, September 13th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, twenty-three have assigned a Hold rating and five have issued a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Reduce” and a consensus target price of $22.20.

Intel Stock Up 22.8%

NASDAQ:INTC opened at $30.57 on Friday. Intel has a 1 year low of $17.67 and a 1 year high of $32.38. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $23.17 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $21.95. The stock has a market cap of $133.80 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.41 and a beta of 1.23. The company has a current ratio of 1.24, a quick ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 24th. The chip maker reported ($0.10) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.01 by ($0.11). Intel had a negative return on equity of 3.78% and a negative net margin of 38.64%.The business had revenue of $12.86 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $11.88 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.02 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up .5% compared to the same quarter last year. Intel has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.000-0.000 EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that Intel will post -0.11 earnings per share for the current year.

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.