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Intel Corporation
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
Weak signals across every dimension
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1 of 5 met · composite below the peer average
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Stable quality
Profitability
3/4
Debt & liquidity
2/3
Efficiency
1/2
Debt sits at the center of Intel's current picture: Debt/EBITDA of 5.2× exceeds the sector median 0.9× by +462%, a strain that compounds weak operating performance — the operating margin of -4.2% runs -114% below the sector median 29.2%. The P/B of 3.9× is -62% below the sector median 10.1×, and EV/EBITDA of 56.8× is +74% richer than the median 32.5× — so the valuation picture is mixed rather than uniformly cheap. The F-Score of 6/9 and a composite of 24/100 against the sector place the fundamentals in the bottom tier of the Information Technology sector. Consensus, which tends to run about 10% optimistic, models a recovery; the beat rate over eight quarters has been strong, yet realized three-year EPS growth data is absent from SEC filings, leaving the forward case resting on analyst forecasts alone.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL | Apple | 8/9 | 171% | +6% |
Quarter-by-quarter classification · a retrospective read by the current logic · not a price forecast
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. The method did not see these quarters in real time; this is the current logic applied to past reports.
Priced at 51.4× of expected earnings; analyst sentiment is steady; has mostly beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
When Intel reports on 2026-10-21, track operating margin against the current 29.2% sector median gap and whether Debt/EBITDA is moving toward the 0.92× sector median from its elevated 5.6× level. An F-Score profitability sub-score of 3/4 leaves one signal unlit — check whether return on assets or cash flow from operations has improved year over year.
Pull Intel's most recent 10-K on SEC EDGAR and focus on management's discussion of capital expenditure commitments and debt servicing, given Debt/EBITDA sits well above the sector median. The leverage and liquidity sub-score of 2/3 suggests at least one pressure point worth locating in the financial disclosures.
From the same-sector table in section 06, pick two or three companies yourself and line up one metric — operating margin or Debt/EBITDA are the most relevant given Intel's weak signals in both. No company in that alphabetical table is ranked; the exercise is to place Intel's figures in context rather than to identify a preferred alternative.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: -188%-52%-10%+68%
Over 4 years: 2.805.92—5.16
Over 4 years: -20%-14%-2%-0%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 6 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| 32% |
| ACN | Accenture | 4/9 | 26% | +7% | 15% |
| ADBE | Adobe | 7/9 | 55% | +11% | 37% |
| AMAT | Applied Materials | 6/9 | 36% | +4% | 29% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 7/9 | 7% | +34% | 11% |
| AVGO | Broadcom | 7/9 | 43% | +24% | 40% |
| CRM | Salesforce | 7/9 | 12% | +10% | 20% |
| CSCO | Cisco | 8/9 | 22% | +5% | 21% |
| IBM | IBM | 6/9 | 35% | +8% | — |
| INTC | Intel Corporation | 6/9 | -0% | -0% | -4% |
| INTU | Intuit | 8/9 | 20% | +16% | 26% |
| MSFT | Microsoft | 6/9 | 34% | +18% | 47% |
| NOW | ServiceNow | 4/9 | 15% | +21% | 14% |
| NVDA | NVIDIA | 3/9 | 101% | +65% | 60% |
| ORCL | Oracle | 5/9 | 54% | +17% | 31% |
| TXN | Texas Instruments | 7/9 | 30% | +13% | 34% |
A sample of 16 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
A simplified retrospective read: no analyst forecast (not available historically); the source is the annual report as of the date, so neighbouring quarters can rest on the same data. Quarters with the same classification in a row are merged into one row — each row is one change in the read, not a separate quarter. One ticker is an illustration of the classification logic, not statistics. How we calculate →
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.