Capstone Financial Advisors Inc. Trims Stake in Intel Corporation $INTC

Capstone Financial Advisors Inc. lessened its holdings in shares of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) by 9.4% in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 29,759 shares of the chip maker’s stock after selling 3,091 shares during the quarter. Capstone Financial Advisors Inc.’s holdings in Intel were worth $667,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of INTC. Advisors Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in Intel by 5.9% during the 2nd quarter. Advisors Capital Management LLC now owns 9,809 shares of the chip maker’s stock valued at $220,000 after acquiring an additional 547 shares during the period. Sittner & Nelson LLC increased its stake in Intel by 3.1% in the second quarter. Sittner & Nelson LLC now owns 23,365 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $523,000 after purchasing an additional 701 shares during the period. Evolution Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its position in shares of Intel by 4.6% during the second quarter. Evolution Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 13,819 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $310,000 after purchasing an additional 605 shares during the last quarter. Fiera Capital Corp purchased a new stake in shares of Intel during the second quarter valued at $9,711,000. Finally, Allianz SE grew its holdings in shares of Intel by 0.6% in the second quarter. Allianz SE now owns 94,900 shares of the chip maker’s stock worth $2,126,000 after purchasing an additional 574 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 64.53% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Hsbc Global Res lowered shares of Intel from a “hold” rating to a “moderate sell” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 7th. UBS Group lifted their price target on shares of Intel from $35.00 to $40.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Monday, October 6th. Northland Securities increased their price objective on Intel from $28.00 to $42.00 in a research note on Friday, September 19th. Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Intel in a research report on Friday, October 24th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus upped their target price on Intel from $21.00 to $24.50 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, July 21st. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, twenty-three have assigned a Hold rating and eight have issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Intel presently has a consensus rating of “Reduce” and an average price target of $34.84.

Intel Stock Down 5.2%

Shares of NASDAQ INTC opened at $35.91 on Friday. Intel Corporation has a 12-month low of $17.67 and a 12-month high of $42.48. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $34.41 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $26.19. The stock has a market capitalization of $171.54 billion, a PE ratio of 3,594.59 and a beta of 1.31. The company has a current ratio of 1.60, a quick ratio of 1.25 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.38.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October 23rd. The chip maker reported $0.23 EPS for the quarter. Intel had a negative return on equity of 0.75% and a net margin of 0.37%.The firm had revenue of $13.65 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $13.10 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted ($0.46) EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 3.0% compared to the same quarter last year. Intel has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 0.080-0.080 EPS. As a group, analysts expect that Intel Corporation will post -0.11 EPS for the current fiscal 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.