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High-End Chips Help Lift Intel's 4Q Profit

Slimy   on 16 January 2007 - 23:42 · 6 comments & 1973 views

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Intel posted a quarterly profit that beat the average Wall Street estimate. The top computer chip maker owes the success to new high-end processors. Intel's fourth-quarter net profit was $1.5 billion, or 26 cents per share, compared to the Wall Street Journal’s forecast of $1.44 billion, or 25 cents per share. Revenue was $9.69 billion, down 5% from $10.2 billion last year, but ahead of the average forecast of $9.43 billion.

Thanks to the price war Intel and AMD are in, Intel shares have fallen nearly 15% while AMD's have dropped almost 50%, over the past year. AMD has been hurt pretty badly by the price war. The company’s stock is valued at 11.6 times expected 2007 profit, compared to nearly 19 times for Intel shares.

News source: CRN

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#1 dhitb on 17 Jan 2007 - 00:15
WTG Intel, but ouch on the AMD stock (making teeth clenching face here). I want to see AMD bounce back this year.
#2 zivan56 on 17 Jan 2007 - 00:36
Good time to buy AMD stock?
(2 replies) #3 iCeFuSiOn on 17 Jan 2007 - 01:16
Go Intel!
#3.1 vetHurmoth on 17 Jan 2007 - 01:39
The title is misleading. Intel Corp. saw its fourth quarter profits plunge 39 percent amid ongoing restructuring charges and a heated price war with undersized rival AMD. Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2405
#3.2 monkeydust on 17 Jan 2007 - 10:38
Agreed. The title is misleading. Look at all the other news sites and they mention the profit plunge. INTC stock was down 4% in afterhours yesterday (I'm an INTC stockholder).
#4 So-Unreal on 18 Jan 2007 - 21:36
PPL this is not a good thing for Intel. Whole trying to Kill off AMD they and not making as much off of each cpu sold.

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