INTC is up 318% in a year and trades at 56x forward earnings, despite its foundry segment losing $2 billion last quarter. Intel's only upgrade trigger is a binding, high-volume foundry commitment from a marquee hyperscaler like Apple, Qualcomm, or AWS on 18A or 14A. Our analysts combed the entire stock market and named the ten best stocks to buy right now, and Intel didn't make the cut.
Enter your email to see the names that beat INTC. Enter your email and see if any of your stocks made the cut. At $102.94, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is a Hold, and it will stay a Hold until one specific catalyst arrives.
The stock has already priced in a spectacular turnaround narrative, up 318.29% over the past year, which means the easy money is gone and the hard question begins. Intel is the largest US semiconductor manufacturer by revenue and the developer of the x86 architecture that still anchors most of the world's servers and PCs. Under CEO Lip-Bu Tan, the company is executing a two-track strategy: defend and grow its CPU franchise while spending more than $20 billion in 2026 capex to stand up a credible external foundry business on the Intel 18A and 14A nodes.
The rally from roughly $41 last October to triple digits reflects investor belief that this time is different. The Q2 blowout, an NVIDIA equity investment, and US government backing all landed inside a single fiscal year. Now the question is what comes next.
The fundamental turn is real. Q2 revenue of $16.13 billion grew 25.42% year over year, Intel's strongest growth in more than fifteen years. Data Center and AI revenue jumped 59%, and non-GAAP EPS of $0.42 nearly doubled expectations. 24/7 Wall St has helped investors make money for over two decades, and our top analysts just finished ranking the definitive Top 10 Stocks To Buy Now.
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