Intel’s Turnaround Could Rewrite the Stock’s Story Vandita Jadeja Wed, November 11, 2026 at 12:03 PM EST 6 min read INTC +9.23% ORCL +9.48% NVDA +4.51% AMD +7.50% Explore stocks on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
Intel (INTC) plunged 29% in one day on weak guidance, yet the 24/7 Wall St. model still sees a $77 target, implying 39% upside.
Lip-Bu Tan sees the server CPU market growing from $40 billion to more than $200 billion, and Oracle and NVIDIA have adopted Xeon.
Data Center and AI revenue jumped 78% last quarter, Intel's strongest data center growth in 15 years, even as the market prices in PC weakness.
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Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) just posted a steep one-week fall. The selloff has left the share price well below what the fundamentals support.
The 24/7 Wall St. price target for Intel sits at $77.29, measured against a model reference price of $55.55. That works out to 39.1% upside, and the model gives the stock a buy rating at high confidence.
The market is pricing in a weak PC market and a heavy 2027 spending cycle. Meanwhile, Data Center and AI revenue grew 78% last quarter, which was Intel's strongest data center growth in 15 years. My model looks past the next two quarters to the earnings power that chief executive Lip-Bu Tan is building.
Shares fell 29% on October 30, according to the WSJ. Over the past week the stock is down 42.9%, and over the past month it has lost 53.05%, trading near $54.55 midday. Even so, Intel is still up 47.83% year to date. Its 52-week range runs from $32.89 to $142.35.
The third quarter itself was solid. Revenue rose 20.95% to $16.51 billion, and non-GAAP EPS came in at $0.52 against a $0.40 consensus. The guidance did the damage.
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Management called for non-GAAP EPS of $0.25 in the fourth quarter and said an accident at its Israel factory would cut fourth-quarter revenue by about $300 million. On top of that, CFO Dave Zinsner said "I don't think that this will be a year in which we see positive cash flow" about 2027.
The core of the bull case is server CPUs. Tan estimates that the server CPU market "could increase as much as five times from where it is today from $40 billion to more than $200 billion over five years." Clearwater Forest is already shipping for revenue, and Diamond Rapids is set to ramp in 2027.
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and the DGX Rubin NVL8 platform from NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) have both adopted Xeon. Intel 18A costs have dropped about 40% since Q1, and Tan expects "a couple of customers ready to announce the next two quarters" for the foundry business.
Wall Street remains cautious, with 12 buy or strong buy ratings against 36 holds. My bull case points to $101.08.
Intel Foundry lost $1.85 billion last quarter. Management expects PC unit sales to fall about 10% in 2027. The U.S. government's stake raises governance questions, and 14A could stall if Intel fails to land a major outside customer.
The foundry loss narrowed by $236 million from the prior quarter. The $12.53 billion second-quarter GAAP charge was a non-cash mark-to-market item. Most of the 2027 spending goes to equipment for nodes that already have demand. My bear case is $62.98.
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) competes with Intel directly in server and PC CPUs. Its data center revenue grew 97%, and it trades at 12.67 times book.
NVIDIA is both a partner and the benchmark for AI growth, with a trailing P/E of about 40x and revenue up 105.85%. Both companies grow faster than Intel, but Intel's price-to-book multiple is far lower. That makes our target look reasonable, and even conservative, if margins keep improving.
The model sets a 24/7 Wall St. price target of $77.29 with a buy rating and 90% confidence. The deciding factor for me is a server CPU business where demand is still outpacing supply.
The thesis gets stronger if supply of Intel 3 and substrates improves in the second half of 2027 and foundry customers are announced on schedule. It gets weaker if the Israel disruption drags on or 14A fails to win an outside customer. Today's price already reflects most of that downside.
If current growth trends continue, here is where the model projects Intel could trade.
The projections rest on Intel continuing to execute its current strategy. Signing up outside customers for 14A could lift results well above these figures, while continued foundry losses could pull them well below.
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