Intel Beats Bust? Big Time

When it last reported earnings, Intel surpassed Wall Street’s expectations and issued a strong outlook for the rest of 2009. So investors had high hopes for its latest quarterly report. And Intel appears to have met them. Reporting fourth-quarter earnings after market close Thursday, the company blew the doors off consensus estimates that called for 30 cents a share in profit on revenue of $10.17 billion.
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Intel Beats Bust? Big Time

When it last reported earnings, Intel surpassed Wall Street’s expectations and issued a strong outlook for the rest of 2009. So investors had high hopes for its latest quarterly report. And Intel appears to have met them. Reporting fourth-quarter earnings after market close Thursday, the company blew the doors off consensus estimates that called for 30 cents a share in profit on revenue of $10.17 billion.
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Merrill Turns Cautious on Chips, Foundries; Many Downgrades; Stocks Swoon

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch chip analyst Sumit Dhanda this morning turned cautious on semiconductor stocks, downgrading a slew of stocks; his colleague Daniel Heyler made a comparable on the foundries, lower ratings on a number of stocks. “We are downgrading our view on the sector given unfavorable indications from our cyclical framework,” he writes.

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AMD: Bank of America Upgrades to Neutral

Bank of America’s Sumit Dhanda this morning upped his rating on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to Neutral from Sell, setting a price target of $6. “Having been consistently cautious on the stock since early 2006, we now believe that our thesis has largely played out–share losses to Intel (INTC), persistent pressure on cash flow/profitability, strain on the balance sheet–and that the stock has limited downside risk from current levels.”