Opinions
Robert Lauzon
Intel
INTC-Q
DON'T BUY
Feb 23, 2021
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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He approves of Washington taking a stake in Intel. This isn't about socialism or Trump picking winners of losers, it's about the dire state of Intel and a long line of bad CEOs. Problem is, Intel is too big to go under. And the new CEO is a turnaround artist, who previously saved Cadence.
Not really, because the US is concerned about semiconductors and chips. US government now owns an estimated 5%. This injection ensures that the company will survive. Not the best, most powerful, AI chips (that's NVDA). Depends if you think new CEO can turn things around. Now has to execute.
If you think NVDA's growth can keep up, that's a name to look at as well.
This investor sounds just like him. Sold out of his fund, but still in separately managed accounts.
Everyone's interested in it. The foundries require so much capex, and that's why there aren't that many. Fantastic company, but execution has been problematic. New CEO doing fabulous job. Getting pretty close to average analyst price target. Buy if you can see it down at $33, and certainly under $30.
He used to own this for its dividend, but became unhappy with how they executed on growth plans. He doesn't see much forward growth in the next two years. They're moving some production to Taiwan Semiconductor. They lag the leaders in semis now. The stock fell to $45, but has rebounded nicely, due to activists who saw value in INTC. He prefers AMD and Nvidia, both momentum growth stocks that have pulled back in the last 3 weeks.