What to Expect From Intel Earnings (INTC, SMH, XSD)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is due to report earnings after the close of trading Tuesday and shares are currently up in anticipation. Thomson Reuters has estimates at $0.46 EPS and $11.6 billion in revenue. The fear is not so much…
This earnings report is going to likely have an impact on the Semiconductor HOLDRs (NYSE: SMH) and the SPDR S&P Semiconductor (NYSE: XSD) as Intel is such a large weighting in these ETFs.
Our concerns for Intel are the same as elsewhere… a slowing PC-sales market and the growth of tablets that so far are skipping Intel processors. The good news here is that Intel is already trading as though it has to warn as it priced at about 9.5-times 2011 estimates. Still, the call for an earnings warning has been out for over a week now.
Options traders appear to be bracing for a move of only about $0.50 to $0.60 going into earnings. With this report being more controversial, we could easily see options traders having this one wrong today. Analysts still have a price target objective of nearly $25.00 per share.
JON C. OGG
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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.