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Company snapshot — Intel Corporation

INTC in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Intel designs and manufactures processors for personal computers and data centres, and it also runs a foundry that fabricates wafers and substrates for outside customers. Its client computing group sells CPUs and GPUs for PCs, its data-centre and AI group sells server processors and networking parts, and Intel Foundry handles wafer fabrication and packaging. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Where it sits in the stack
In our index, Intel sits in Layer 4, Infrastructure, within the Substrates & Interposers sleeve — the connective tissue linking die, package and board. Through Intel Foundry it is a supplier into this layer, and through its own chip designs it is also a customer drawing on substrate and packaging capacity elsewhere in the build-out.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places Intel with IDMs and foundry challengers — AMD, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, GlobalFoundries, Nvidia and Qualcomm; the market also weighs it against Samsung's foundry arm.
Why Closelook tracks it
Intel sits in the Rubin Build-Out 100 and the Nasdaq-100, and it carries a Closelook score with momentum as its strongest module and quality as its weakest. The diary has returned to it across dossiers and strategy pieces on the chip build-out chain.
What the diary watches
Whether foundry execution and yield narrow the gap with the largest contract manufacturer, and whether talent and cost pressures keep slowing the ramp of substrate and packaging volume.

Intel Corporation (INTC) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology, and sits in Layer 4 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelook company score reads 35/100 composite (momentum 64, quality 19, valuation 23) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: INTC news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for INTC, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 8 analyst actions on the wire · latest: upgrade by Barclays, 2026-09-16

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for INTC from the Closelook wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Upgrade Barclays — Underperform → Overweight Upgraded to Overweight from Underperform 2026-09-16
  • Price target Tigress Financial — target 145 from 118 Target raised to $145 from $118 (+49.3% to spot) 2026-09-15
  • Price target Piper Sandler — target 110 Target set to $110 (+3.5% to spot) 2026-09-09

8 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 upgrades, 3 initiations, 3 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against IDMs and foundry challengers · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

IDMs and foundry challengers

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against INTC on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelook index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-09-17

DayWeekMonth3 months
INTC+7.7%+8.5%+12.5%−10.2%
Substrates & Interposers+1.9%−3.5%−0.5%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+1.5%−2.2%−2.9%—

Against the index: 10.7 pts ahead on the week, 15.4 pts ahead on the month; against its Substrates & Interposers sleeve 13.0 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sector × region Technology in US: −2.1% week · −3.4% month · −1.2% quarter · +32.1% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-16
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Intel Corporation (INTC)?

Intel Corporation trades as INTC on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Technology in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is INTC in a Closelook index?

Yes — Intel Corporation is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-09-18.

What is Intel Corporation's Closelook composite score?

35 out of 100, with momentum 64, quality 19 and valuation 23 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-18. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

What is Intel Corporation's earnings print record?

Across the 10 prints Closelook covers, Intel Corporation beat EPS estimates 7 times and revenue estimates 8 times; the three-day reactions split 3 up, 0 flat and 7 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-07-22 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does INTC trade against its moving averages?

Up 7.7% at the close: Above both trend lines; one of the day's strongest moves. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is INTC doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month Intel Corporation is +12.5% against −2.9% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 15.4 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-09-17. Its Substrates & Interposers sleeve is −0.5% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does Intel Corporation do?

Intel designs and manufactures processors for personal computers and data centres, and it also runs a foundry that fabricates wafers and substrates for outside customers. Its client computing group sells CPUs and GPUs for PCs, its data-centre and AI group sells server processors and networking parts, and Intel Foundry handles wafer fabrication and packaging. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Closelook's peer group places Intel with IDMs and foundry challengers — AMD, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, GlobalFoundries, Nvidia and Qualcomm; the market also weighs it against Samsung's foundry arm.

Where does Intel Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

In our index, Intel sits in Layer 4, Infrastructure, within the Substrates & Interposers sleeve — the connective tissue linking die, package and board. Through Intel Foundry it is a supplier into this layer, and through its own chip designs it is also a customer drawing on substrate and packaging capacity elsewhere in the build-out. Intel sits in the Rubin Build-Out 100 and the Nasdaq-100, and it carries a Closelook score with momentum as its strongest module and quality as its weakest. The diary has returned to it across dossiers and strategy pieces on the chip build-out chain.

What has Wall Street done on Intel Corporation recently?

The most recent analyst action on Intel Corporation on the Closelook wire is a upgrade by Barclays on 2026-09-16 (Underperform → Overweight). 8 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 upgrades, 3 initiations, 3 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelook readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

Where has Closelook written about Intel Corporation?

Intel Corporation appears in 19 Closelook pieces, most recently Morning 10: Yen — the Bank of Japan hikes and the dollar holds 157: the carry trade pays, the lines held, chips +3.4% over $505 (2026-09-18); Morning 10: AI trade — the labs ask for a slowdown: Kospi −3.3%, SoftBank −11%, Nasdaq futures −1.2%, oil back above $106 (2026-09-14); Midday 10: AI trade — the pacing call splits tech: chips −5%, software +4.5%, security +12–15%, 10-year hits 5% (2026-09-14). What Closelook said most recently: Inside chips the sort paused rather than closed: AMD +6.4%, Arm +8.6%, Micron +5.5%, Intel +7.7%, TSMC +3.0%, Nvidia +2.5% on the design side; Applied Materials +0.5%, Lam flat, KLA +1.0% on the equipment side. (Morning 10, 2026-09-18). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for INTC, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 19 pieces · newest: Morning 10, “Yen — the Bank of Japan hikes and the dollar holds 157: the carry trade pays, the lines held, chips +3.4% over $505” (2026-09-18)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where INTC appears in the diary — 19 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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