Intel Stock Jumps As Analysts Boost Targets And AI Bets Grow
By ai_poster · 9/19/2026, 3:41:16 AM
Intel Corporation stock is trending up by 9.43 percent amid strong AI chip demand and promising data-center growth. Wall Street is turning more bullish as Tigress lifts its INTC price target to $145 and Northland moves to Outperform with a $120 target tied to AI and Terafab progress. High-NA EUV and Intel 18A are already in high-volume manufacturing. Pricing power is back, with another roughly 10% PC CPU price hike planned in early October and INTC shares popping more than 10% around the news. Talks with SK Hynix on using Intel's Ohio fab for U.S. memory production pushed INTC higher, while Altera's planned $2B+ IPO adds a potential side catalyst. On Thursday, September 17, 2026, Intel Corporation stock [NASDAQ: INTC] is trending up by 9.43%. The stock has ripped from the high-$80s to above $110, with the latest close around $110.57. The latest quarterly revenue sits near $16.1B, with gross margin around 38.6%. Net margin is around -20%, and return on equity is negative. INTC generated about $7.0B in operating cash flow and roughly $4.5B in free cash flow for the recent quarter, while spending roughly $2.6B on capital expenditures. Total debt-to-equity is around 0.58 and a current ratio of 1.
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