Intel (INTC) Cut to Market Perform by Northland despite Turnaround Progress

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Intel (INTC) Cut to Market Perform by Northland despite Turnaround Progress

On May 26, Northland downgraded Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) to Market Perform from Outperform. It did not assign a price target, citing valuation concerns. The analyst said Intel is showing measurable progress in its turnaround efforts and expects estimates to move higher as demand for server CPUs improves. At the same time, the firm said it expects overall datacenter spending to decline in calendar year 2027 as hyperscalers become more constrained on cash.

Earlier, on May 18, Melius Research raised the firm’s price recommendation on INTC to $150 from $100. It reiterated a Buy rating on the shares. The analyst said that while “nothing really emerged as incrementally good from Trump going to China,” the firm feels “incrementally good” about memory and AI semiconductor companies. Melius raised long-term estimates and targets for several of its Buy-rated “bottleneck stocks,” including Micron, Sandisk, AMD, and Marvell, along with Hold-rated Qualcomm.

The firm also said it continues to believe semiconductor companies will gain market cap, or at least more upside, compared with traditional software companies and non-semis within the Mag 7 over the long term.

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) designs and manufactures semiconductor products globally. Its business segments include Intel Products, Intel Foundry, and All Other. Intel Products includes the Client Computing Group (CCG) and the Data Center and AI (DCAI) segment.

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