Intel stock tanks despite record sales

Thrax

<p>2006 Operating Income: $5.65 billion,
2007 Operating Income: $8.22 billion,
Gross Margin Increase: 58.1%,
Q4 Revenue: $10.7 billion.</p>
<p>Capping a record year for Intel.</p>
<p>Intel's stocks <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080116-intel-stock-tanks-despite-record-fourth-quarter-earnings.html">have plummeted 12%</a> because they did not hit investor expectations. What the fail.</p>

RADA

Thrax wrote:

<p>2006 Operating Income: $5.65 billion,
2007 Operating Income: $8.22 billion,
Gross Margin Increase: 58.1%,
Q4 Revenue: $10.7 billion.</p>
<p>Capping a record year for Intel.</p>
<p>Intel's stocks <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080116-intel-stock-tanks-despite-record-fourth-quarter-earnings.html">have plummeted 12%</a> because they did not hit investor expectations. What the fail.</p>

Wish I could fail like that.........

Leonardo

Wish I could fail like that.........

Never, ever, ever try to understand Wall Street.

yagga

Does this mean that AMD (which is probably at a loss) is earning an A?

Leonardo

is earning an A?

It's off about 75% of where it was two years ago; approx. 50% off from one year ago.

yagga

Leonardo wrote:

It's off about 75% of where it was two years ago; approx. 50% off from one year ago.

OUCH! B+ anyway

mmonnin

Nearly everyone's stock is down from 1 year ago. Every 3 years or so the semiconductor industry has an up and about 3 years later it has its down. Last crash in 2001, 6 years ago.

AMD is just still paying off ATI. Not including that it lost a very respectable $59mil amid huge price cuts keeping up with Intel