Intel’s Revenue Guidance Falls Short. The Stock Drops.

Text size An Intel desktop processor. Courtesy Intel Corporation Intel forecast less revenue than expected for the June quarter, sending the stock lower in after-hours trading. The company cited weake...

Intel stock declines as chip maker doubles down on outlook despite headwinds

Intel Corp. shares declined in the extended session Thursday after the chip maker held onto its full-year outlook amid expected weakness this quarter, forecasting a surge in sales from its major busin...

AMD Could Overcome Slowing Demand for Semis. It’s a Strong Buy, Analyst Says.

Text size Dreamstime Advanced Micro Devices could be well-positioned to ride out a tough cycle for semiconductor stocks amid slowing consumer demand, according to Raymond James. Analyst Chris Caso upg...

Why semiconductor stocks are ‘almost uninvestable’ despite record earnings amid a global shortage

The PHLX Semiconductor Index SOX, +1.76%, which hit a record high of 4,039.51 on Dec. 27, fell 13% over the first quarter of 2022, and as of Monday, is down about 24% year to date, putting it firmly i...

Why did the stock market fall? Dow finishes nearly 1,000 points lower in worst day since October 2020

U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday to suffer their biggest one-day drop since 2020, as investors continued to weigh hawkish comments on interest rates a day earlier by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome ...

Opinion: This will be a year for stock market traders — here are 12 companies to favor, says 40-year investing veteran Bob Doll

If you’re relatively new to investing, and you think 2022 has been a year from hell, imagine being in the stock market for over 40 years. That would’ve put you through the Great Financial Crisis in 20...

The end of one-chip wonders: Why Nvidia, Intel and AMD’s valuations have experienced massive upheaval

It wasn’t too long ago that Intel Corp. was the unquestioned king of U.S. chip makers and the largest semiconductor company by market capitalization. It’s also not long since most computing was done w...

Nvidia Stock Is Downgraded. China and Russia Are Headwinds.

Text size Dreamstime Nvidia shares were falling on Monday after the stock was downgraded by a Baird analyst, who cited concerns over slowing consumer demand exacerbated by the Russian embargo. Nvidia ...

Nvidia, AMD, Intel Price Targets Are Cut. This Analyst Sees Chip Demand Slowing.

Text size Dreamstime Semiconductor stocks have soared over the last few quarters, driven higher by robust demand for chips amid a global supply shortage. But the tide may be turning for semiconductor ...

AMD, Qualcomm make software-focused acquisitions as growth in core chip businesses questioned

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. both announced acquisitions on Monday that will help diversify into greater software holdings as analysts question growth in the chip makers’ core busines...

Buy Micron Stock. The Chip Stock Deserves Better.

Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...

Micron Deserves Better. Why the Stock Is a Buy

Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...

Opinion: I’ve always pounded the table on revolutionary companies. Now I’ve found myself buying Intel’s stock

This may be a surprise for those of you who have been following me on MarketWatch, as I have focused on finding Revolutionary companies early on and holding on to them, usually forever. Intel is a com...

Intel CEO Gelsinger’s reaps near-$180 million windfall from ‘significant magnitude’ of new-hire awards

Pat Gelsinger had a very, very good year in 2021. He started the year as VMware Inc.’s VMW, -2.00% chief executive officer, where he took in total compensation of $16.5 million during the fiscal year ...

8 Stocks That Are Negative Since Pandemic Low—and 1 That Just Turned Positive

Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...

The 8 Stocks in the S&P 500 That Are Still Negative Since the Pandemic Lows

Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...

Gold at $10,000? Death of the 40-year bull market in bonds? What’s next for the global financial system after Russia’s central bank gets cancelled

The shockwaves are still being felt by the incredible Western sanctions that have rendered the $630 billion in reserves the Russian central bank accumulated virtually unusable. Can the current dollar-...

Intel’s Lagging Notebook Shipments Are ‘Yellow Flag,’ Analyst Says

Text size Intel Dreamstime Intel ’s notebook shipments may struggle in the near term, adding further pressure to a stock that has traded lower this year, according to analysts at Citi. Notebook shipme...

Opinion: I’m raising cash and getting defensive as the stock market works through its excesses

This war is shameful and crazy. All wars are. And there’s no telling what President Putin is going to do next. What I do know is that the globalized world economy is not going back to what it was. The...

Intel faces ‘all-or-nothing’ situation, analyst says in downgrade

Intel Corp. may have gotten a callout in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address earlier in the week, but on Thursday it fell further down Morgan Stanley’s list of chip names. Morgan Stanley’...

Semiconductor, PC stocks rally after Biden touts importance of U.S. chip manufacturing

Chip-related stocks and shares of computer makers surged Wednesday following a push by President Joe Biden to pass legislation that would result in more than $50 billion in government subsidies to bui...

Semiconductor sales to Russia banned, but that shouldn’t hurt Intel, AMD and other chip makers

Semiconductor companies are banning sales to Russia following the company’s invasion of Ukraine, but an analyst says the companies shouldn’t feel much of an effect. As Russian forces continued to bomb...

Ukraine Invasion Sends Chill Through TSMC Shares

Text size Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing saw its share slide Tuesday even as those of most other chipmakers rose. Sam Yeh / AFP via Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares dropped T...

Intel Has Fallen 30% Since This Analyst Cut His Rating. He Just Upgraded the Stock.

Intel plans to invest heavily in its operations over the next three years. Courtesy Intel Corporation Text size A bold turnaround plan won’t be cheap for Intel, but shares have fallen 30% since Chris ...

Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount and Fed Tightening Weighs. There’s Only 1 Certainty for Markets.

U.S. stocks are being bumped around from crisis to crisis as if in a pinball machine. The uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s policy and the future path of interest rates keeps surfacing on a reg...

Intel reaches $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor

Intel Corp. on Tuesday struck a $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor, as it seeks to bolster its manufacturing capabilities. Intel INTC, -0.10% said it’s paying $53 per share in cash for Tower...

The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down

Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...

Nvidia calls off $40 billion acquisition of Arm: report

Nvidia Corp. is giving up on its attempt to acquire chip designer Arm Ltd. from Softbank Group Corp., according to a report Monday. Nvidia NVDA, +1.68% agreed to acquire Arm for $40 billion in cash an...

Opinion: Amid a global chip shortage, Intel is making less money — how did that happen?

Intel INTC, -2.48% was the world’s largest chipmaker until 2021, when it was dethroned by Samsung. Though Samsung’s main business is memory chips, which is a different segment of the market to Intel’s...

Opinion: Google is finally splitting its stock; will Amazon be next, leading to a Dow shakeup?

Alphabet Inc. is finally carving into its gargantuan stock price with a stock split, which leaves only one Big Tech company remaining with a huge per-share price despite an easy avenue to change it. A...

What’s old is new again — the Dogs of the Dow are outperforming the stock market

The Dogs of the Dow strategy has been around awhile. It’s where investors pick the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of the year, and invest equa...

AMD is about to wander into a minefield

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings will serve as an important indicator on whether the semiconductor outlook is truly weak in early 2022, or whether it’s just weak for certain companies. AMD AMD, +2...