Why Investors Should Stick to Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC) Stock in 2025

In the last trading session, 96.29 million Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.15. With the company’s per share price at $20.51 changed hands at $0.46 or 2.29% during last session, the market valuation stood at $89.44B. INTC’s last price was a discount, traded about -81.18% off its 52-week high of $37.16. The share price had its 52-week low at $17.67, which suggests the last value was 13.85% up since then. When we look at Intel Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 95.52 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 113.83 million.

Analysts gave the Intel Corp (INTC) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 2.95. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 4 out of 31 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 16 recommended INTC as a Hold, 11 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Intel Corp’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.02.

Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) trade information

Instantly INTC was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 8.86%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 2.29%, with the 5-day performance at 8.86% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) is -13.17% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 115.03 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.03 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 22, meaning bulls need an upside of 6.77% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, INTC’s forecast low is 19 with 29 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -41.39% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 7.36% for it to hit the projected low.

Intel Corp (INTC) estimates and forecasts

Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -4.87% down from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 30 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 11.93B. 28 analysts are of the opinion that Intel Corp’s revenue for the current quarter will be 12.64B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 12.83B and 13.28B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -7.03%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at -4.81%.

The 2025 estimates are for Intel Corp earnings to increase by 338.59%.

INTC Dividends

Intel Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-23. The 1.22% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.25. It is important to note, however, that the 1.22% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.81 per year.

Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.08% of Intel Corp shares while 66.04% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 66.09%. There are 66.04% institutions holding the Intel Corp stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.2216% of the shares, roughly 393.49 million INTC shares worth $12.19 billion.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.476% or 361.67 million shares worth $11.2 billion as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 121.66 shares estimated at $2.5 billion under it, the former controlled 2.79% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.68% of the shares, roughly 116.75 shares worth around $2.39 billion.