Intel (INTC)

A business that's hard to turn around. Core competency was chips for PCs. NVDA is really good at chips for data centres and AI. INTC can't innovate and catch up to that. Behind, and going to stay behind. Now they're on turnaround strategy 2.0, selling the fab business and spinning off things. Sell. Won't turn around well.

Makes sense for QCOM to be interested, as it's a path to being more vertically integrated. Could create more synergies than other players. But you can't buy a stock hoping for a takeout; it may not occur.

Unsure on potential of a takeout or and M&A activity. Trend indicating lots of downward pressure. Would not recommend investing.  

He sold most, but still retains a small 1% position. Very cheap, other companies are interested. It all comes down to execution. If you didn't own it, you could pick it up here, and let it go around $25-26 for a trade.

From a value perspective it is priced like most of the businesses are worthless. The pieces of Intel are worth more than what it's trading at. He thinks the fabrication business is very valuable and that's why Qualcomm wants them. There is easy upside and it could go to $30. He bought the stock, not the options so it is more of an investment.         Buy 7  Hold 37  Sell 6

They have failed on every level in recent years: goals, timing, all. Can they do an 180? Possibly, but do you want to invest in this?

It is struggling right now. It is a turn around opportunity but this is hard to do for tech companies. Turn around opportunities are better in the resource sector. It created 2 divisions but it hasn't worked that well. It has wanted a chip to compete with Nvidia. There is talk about splitting up the company.

He sold it 4 years ago. Tragic to see a US icon fall like this. Doesn't blame the current CEO, but the previous one who fell behind in chip technology. Still saddled by debt.

They missed the boat in AI and date centre, down 3% last quarter during the AI boom. Terrible. Gross margins were also down because of huge capex spending.

Can't remember when he made $$ on this one, but you will. It's like IBM. A difficult story. If you own it, the benefit is that you'll have some capital losses.

Has been missing on financial objectives for a long time. Market growing tired of poor performance. Would not recommend investing at this time. Better options for investors out there. 

Some feel that Intel will bounce back huge, catching up in data centres, and sell more chips. Dream on. Look at their balance sheet. Last year, they cut their dividend.

Doesn't love the valuation (forward PE of 52.42x, significantly higher than industry average) relative to earnings. Sees ongoing financial challenges in returning to profitability. Lots of competition. Doesn't see a quick turnaround.

It's been badly pounded recently, down 20% in a single day. It has a lot of cash, but the company is in terminal decline. If you own it, buy it on a dip, then trade, or sell covered calls. At best, this is a trade, not an own.

They have no credibility. Their balance sheet is terrible. It could bounce tomorrow. Sell half then sell more on a bounce.

Leader today in CPUs, an area that's growing, but losing market share to AMD. NVDA is the leader in the AI accelerator market, with 10x the sales of the next closest competitor AVGO. They're not competitive in the infrastructure arena either.