Is Intel (INTC) Stock Undervalued Right Now? - Yahoo Finance

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The proven Zacks Rank system focuses on earnings estimates and estimate revisions to find winning stocks. Nevertheless, we know that our readers all have their own perspectives, so we are always looking at the latest trends in value, growth, and momentum to find strong picks.

Considering these trends, value investing is clearly one of the most preferred ways to find strong stocks in any type of market. Value investors use fundamental analysis and traditional valuation metrics to find stocks that they believe are being undervalued by the market at large.

On top of the Zacks Rank, investors can also look at our innovative Style Scores system to find stocks with specific traits. For example, value investors will want to focus on the "Value" category. Stocks with high Zacks Ranks and "A" grades for Value will be some of the highest-quality value stocks on the market today.

One company to watch right now is Intel (INTC). INTC is currently holding a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy) and a Value grade of A. The stock holds a P/E ratio of 12.70, while its industry has an average P/E of 21.78. INTC's Forward P/E has been as high as 13.31 and as low as 8.93, with a median of 11.03, all within the past year.

We also note that INTC holds a PEG ratio of 1.69. This figure is similar to the commonly-used P/E ratio, with the PEG ratio also factoring in a company's expected earnings growth rate. INTC's PEG compares to its industry's average PEG of 2.63. INTC's PEG has been as high as 1.78 and as low as 1.19, with a median of 1.47, all within the past year.

We should also highlight that INTC has a P/B ratio of 3.17. The P/B ratio is used to compare a stock's market value with its book value, which is defined as total assets minus total liabilities. This stock's P/B looks attractive against its industry's average P/B of 5.48. Over the past 12 months, INTC's P/B has been as high as 3.57 and as low as 2.42, with a median of 2.89.

Finally, investors should note that INTC has a P/CF ratio of 7.85. This metric focuses on a firm's operating cash flow and is often used to find stocks that are undervalued based on the strength of their cash outlook. This company's current P/CF looks solid when compared to its industry's average P/CF of 12.03. Over the past year, INTC's P/CF has been as high as 8.47 and as low as 5.44, with a median of 6.86.

Value investors will likely look at more than just these metrics, but the above data helps show that Intel is likely undervalued currently. And when considering the strength of its earnings outlook, INTC sticks out at as one of the market's strongest value stocks.

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Intel Core i7-11700K goes on sale early – and the price might shock you - TechRadar

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While we wait for Intel to reveal its latest 11th generation desktop processors at an event on March 16, it looks like a German retailer may have jumped the gun, and listed the Intel Core i7-11700K for €469 (around $570 / £410 / AU$730).

If the listing is accurate (and it’s still up at the time of writing), then it means Intel’s as-yet-unannounced processor will be quite a bit more expensive than its predecessor.

As the VideoCardz website points out, the same store, Mindfactory.de, sells the Core i7-10700K for €317.50 (around £390 / £280 / AU$500), which is over €150 cheaper than its follow up will be. 

It also means the right-core, 16-thread Intel Core i7-11700K will cost almost as much as the flagship Intel Core i9-10900K. If the price is correct, it looks like we could be paying a premium for Rocket Lake-S processors.

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So, will 11th generation Rocket Lake-S processors be worth the extra cost? It seems Intel is hoping so, with its Cypress Cove architecture promising higher clock speeds, better performance and support for PCIe 4.0.

These processors are expected to be unveiled at an event on March 16, with them going on sale March 30. However, with Mindfactory’s listing still live, it looks like you may be able to buy it earlier.

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Ionos adds AMD hardware to server roster - TechRadar

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European cloud and web hosting firm IONOS has today announced new offerings powered by AMD Ryzen and AMD EPYC processors.

AMD has been making impressive performance leaps recently with its newer chips outperforming their peers in various benchmarks.

An Intel-only shop until now, IONOS notes that it’s been conscious of AMD processors making serious inroads and increasing their presence in the server space in recent years. The company points to a report by our sister publication Tom’s Hardware to highlight AMDs growth in the server segment.

AMD gaining traction

IONOS has started offering hosting options based on the AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3600, AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 3700, and AMD EPYC 7302P. 

"AMD processors offer excellent performance and security features for dedicated servers and cloud operations. With the new offerings, we now provide our customers even more options to choose the right technology for them, while still ensuring cost efficiency,” IONOS CEO Achim Weiss said in a press statement.

IONOS now has a dedicated page to help users configure their AMD-powered server. You can choose to pair the four AMD processors with various amounts of RAM and use either a HDD or a SSD. By default all servers run Linux, and Windows is available at an additional cost. 

At the lower end of the spectrum, the configuration options start at £55/month for the Ryzen 5 Pro 3600 with 32 GB of DDR4 RAM and 1TB of HDD storage. On the other end of the scale, configurations with the EPYC 7302P server with 128GB of DDR4 RAM and 1 TB of NVMe SSD start at £180/month. 

To make the new offering even more attractive, IONOS is giving credits of up to £100 for new users of their AMD-powered servers.

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) EVP & CSO Paul Darren Grasby Sold $633,150 of Shares - Yahoo Finance

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Distressed Indonesian Clothing Maker Drops to Record Lows

(Bloomberg) -- Distressed Indonesian apparel firm PT Pan Brothers has dropped to record lows in credit markets, adding to concerns about the nation’s clothing sector, which has been particularly vulnerable in the pandemic.What’s happening:PT Pan Brothers has made clothes for Ralph Lauren, Prada and Adidas. But in debt markets it’s lost its panache. The manufacturer’s dollar bonds have slid further to record lows of about 36 cents on the dollar. The declines come after it earlier postponed a new global debt offering and had to get a temporary extension from creditors on a loan in the U.S. currency.The company and its subsidiaries need to repay or refinance $310 million of offshore debt this year and next, consisting of the loan and a $171 million bond that will mature in January 2022, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Its exports, which make up more than 80% of sales, stagnated in the first nine months of last year as the pandemic shuttered retail stores. The firm’s net profit rose 0.4% in that period to $19.2 million, the slowest pace in three years, according to its latest financial report.Pan Brothers said in a Dec. 3 investor meeting that some customers had delayed payments and its financial statement shows net trade receivables increased 11% annually to $127.5 million in the January-September period.Why it matters:As the second-biggest listed clothing firm in Indonesia, Pan Brothers is signaling wider stresses in the industry. Apparel is one of Indonesia’s top 10 non-oil and gas exports, and the sector was among the hardest hit last year as the pandemic curtailed demand. Overseas shipments fell 18.7% annually, according to the nation’s statistics bureau.Troubles for the sector may have a wider impact on the economy. A reduction in operations by apparel firms during the virus outbreak has added to the number of people laid off in the world’s fourth most populous nation. Clothing makers for years employed the second-highest number of people in the manufacturing sector, which is the main contributor to Indonesia’s gross domestic product. In 2020, they slumped to 13th place, government data show.Rival PT Sri Rejeki Isman, the country’s biggest listed apparel firm, has also asked lenders for an extension on the maturity of a dollar loan.Pan Brothers is continuing talks with banks for a new syndicated loan. The company had previously said it would use funds from the new global bond to settle its debt, but it may face a hard time attracting investors with the existing note trading in distressed territory.What does the company say:Pan Brothers expects to be able to proceed with the global bond sale in the second quarter to solve its refinancing issues. It’s ready to provide a corporate guarantee for the new notes and also use its own and the units’ assets as collateral, according to the offering prospectus.Who are Pan Brothers:Founded in 1980, the company which is based near Jakarta, produces clothes mainly for export. It said at the December meeting that it had 25 factories across three provinces in Indonesia that make 117 million clothing articles annually.It ventured into making masks and other personal protective equipment in March after the pandemic disrupted business. While it initially produced PPE for domestic distribution, it received requests from overseas as well and such sales ended up accounting for $58 million, or 12.6%, of its total exports throughout January-September.What do rating firms say:Fitch Ratings cut Pan Brothers’ long-term issuer default rating and its existing unsecured dollar note to C from CC in February. It also downgraded the company’s national long-term rating to the same level, which denotes that a default or default-like process has begun, or the issuer is in standstill.The clothing firm’s lengthy negotiations with lenders and short standstill period reflect its weak liquidity position and constrained access to alternative funding sources. The only resolution of the company’s capital structure is through restructuring, at which point Fitch could downgrade the issuer default rating to a restricted default level, according to a Feb. 1 note from Fitch.Moody’s Investors Service cut Pan Brothers’ ratings in January to Ca from Caa1. The outlook remains negative, which reflects the additional uncertainty around the recovery rate for its dollar bond in the event of a default, analyst Stephanie Cheong said in a Jan. 15 report.What are traders watching next:The focus now is on whether Pan Brothers will be able to achieve a definite agreement with lenders on the syndicated loan. Investors are also watching if the company will be able to raise the funds it’s targeting with the planned bond offering, with an annual coupon that it says will be a maximum of 12%.Two Indonesian companies with stronger ratings--Sri Rejeki and PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure--decided to pull their global bond sales due to what they called unfavorable market conditions.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

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U.S. Retailer Lists Rocket Lake CPUs, Core i9-11900K For $599 - Tom's Hardware

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Milwaukee PC (via Harukaze5719), a retailer that has been around since 1988, has shared the pricing for Intel's 11th Generation Rocket Lake processors that will soon vie for a spot on our list of best CPUs for gaming. The company didn't reveal the launch date but did affirm that the new 14nm chips are coming soon, meaning they'll be new entries in our CPU Benchmark hierarchy soon.

The Core i9-11900K will be this generation's flagship, and according to Milwaukee PC, the chip will retail for $599.99. For comparison, the Core i9-10900K debuted at $499.00, so we're looking at 20.2% increase in price for its successor, despite losing two cores, but we do caution that these could be either placeholder or inflated listings. Besides, the Core i9-11900K does bring the new Cypress Cove cores along with Intel's 12th Generation Xe LP graphics unit, so we should wait for in-depth performance testing before passing judgment. If you don't fancy integrated graphics, the Core i9-11900KF will save you $20.

From a price-to-performance standpoint, the Core i7-11700K will likely be one of the fan favorites again. The Rocket Lake part shares the same core configuration as the Core i9-11900K, albeit slower clock speeds. Apparently, the Core i7-11700K carries a $484.99 price tag, representing a 26.3% rise in pricing compared to the previous Core i7-10700K. At least from what we've seen so far from benchmark leaks, the Core i7-11700K paints itself as the new Core i9-10900K.

Intel 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S Pricing

Processor	Pricing (Excl. VAT)	Cores / Threads	Base Clock (GHz)	L3 Cache (MB)	Part Number
Core i9-11900K	$599.99	8 / 16	3.5	16	BX8070811900K
Core i9-11900KF	$579.99	8 / 16	3.5	16	BX8070811900KF
Core i9-11900	$509.99	8 / 16	2.5	16	BX8070811900
Core i9-11900F	$479.99	8 / 16	2.5	16	BX8070811900F
Core i7-11700K	$484.99	8 / 16	3.6	16	BX8070811700K
Core i7-11700KF	$454.99	8 / 16	3.6	16	BX8070811700KF
Core i7-11700	$389.99	8 / 16	2.5	16	BX8070811700
Core i7-11700F	$359.99	8 / 16	2.5	16	BX8070811700F
Core i5-11600K	$309.99	6 / 12	3.9	12	BX8070811600K
Core i5-11600KF	$279.99	6 / 12	3.9	12	BX8070811600KF
Core i5-11600	$264.99	6 / 12	2.8	12	BX8070811600
Core i5-11500	$234.99	6 / 12	2.7	12	BX8070811500
Core i5-11400	$214.99	6 / 12	2.6	12	BX8070811400
Core i5-11400F	$179.99	6 / 12	2.6	12	BX8070811400F

Customers with tight budgets will be happy to know that the Core i5-11600K will only set them back $309.99. Out of the three major K-series parts, the Core i5-11600K accounts for the least price increase. The Core i5-11600K only costs 14% more than the widely popular Core i5-10600K. At launch, we crowned the Core i5-10600K as the ultimate mainstream gaming chip, but that was back before AMD's Ryzen 5000 series landed. We're excited to see whether the torch will pass to the Core i5-11600K.

Once again, gamers who plan to pair the Core i5-11600K could opt to grab the Core i5-11600KF. The iGPU-less variant easily nets them $30 in savings that can be put to good use in other components.

Intel 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S Pricing (Image credit: Milwaukee PC)

Intel has committed will launch Rocket Lake next month, and thanks to an MSI representative, we've narrowed the timeframe down to late March. The processors are backward compatible with the current 400-series motherboards through a simple firmware upgrade. However, motherboard manufacturers have already revealed their new 500-series offerings that are designed to extract every bit of performance out of Rocket Lake.

Rocket Lake is in all likelihood the last wave of Intel processors to grace the LGA1200 platform. Many consider it a band-aid to fend off AMD's Ryzen 5000 (codename Vermeer) army until Alder Lake is ready. Although Intel maintains the notion that the hybrid desktop chips belong to the "performance" segment, it remains to be seen whether there is any truth in the chipmaker's claims.

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Intel's secret weapon could make your next laptop upgrade much cheaper - TechRadar

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Intel has quietly upgraded its enigmatic Compute Element that now sports an i7-1165G7 Processor that can be clocked up to 4.70 GHz.

Code named Elk Bay, the miniscule board measures just 95 x 65 x 6 mm, and is part of Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) lineup of small-form-factor barebones computer kits that enable DIYers to roll them inside all kinds of projects.

The Compute Element 11 takes NUC’s modularity one-step further by allowing users to directly plug it into a spare PCIe slot to get an instant computing boost.

Environmentally-friendly computing

The quad-core i7-1165G7 Tiger Lake processor in the recently launched NUC 11 ships with 12M of cache and 16GB of LPDDR4 RAM. It also gets all the benefits of Intel’s 11th generation platform such as Iris Xe graphics, and ships with the standard complement of ports including HDMI and USB.

In fact, just think of the plug-and-play computer as a self-sufficient module complete with CPU, integrated graphics, SSD, and memory. All it requires is a standard power cable and it’s good to go. 

In essence, you can just  plug the NUC 11 Compute Element into a spare PCIe slot on your existing PC’s motherboard. It won’t interfere with the existing processing unit, but you’ll be able to use the ports on the Compute Element and literally have one PC inside another, saving you the rigmarole of upgrading individual components.

Another interesting use case is the Elite Group NU50 laptop. It’s powered by the Compute Element, which makes it easy to upgrade. Instead of replacing the entire laptop, if you need more juice you can just swap out the Compute Element, saving your old laptop for ending up in a landfill.

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Intel gaming GPU rumours suggest six Xe cards coming in 2021 - PC Gamer

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A new specs list for the upcoming Intel Xe DG2 graphics cards has popped up on Twitter, shared by the usual tweetering suspects. It does feel a little like extrapolated data mixed with speculation based on prior leaks and rumours. Some sort of rumour mill round-robin, if you will. There are ruder ways to explain it, but I'm going to rise above.

The listed numbers here seem logical, given the more reliable end of the specification speculations, and with the Intel Xe DG1 and Tiger Lake's Iris Xe GPU silicon already out in the wild. The listing highlights six different variants of Intel's prospective discrete graphics card, though I'm a little sceptical about all of those options actually making it out into the market.

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The most recent noises we've heard from any sort of Intel official channel came from the drivers Intel dropped back in January. These listed support for a 128 EU version and a 512 EU version of the discrete DG2 graphics card, and didn't show any other supported Xe silicon.

We have seen early DG2 testing kits being listed on the EEC database recently, so it would seem that at least the early test GPUs might be of the 128 and 512 EU (execution unit) variety. 

If you're thinking the EU count might be analogous to the stream processors, or shader units, Nvidia or AMD refer to as GPU or CUDA cores, you're probably thinking these look a little off the pace of current graphics cards. But the way Intel's execution units work (PDF warning) is that each has a pair of floating point units (ALUs) inside them which can process four 32-bit floating point operations per clock. That means each of Intel's EU can almost be said to be equivalent to eight stream processors.

Though each of those ALUs in the execution unit is able to run either integer or floating point operations, in a similar way to the FP/INT branch inside Nvidia's GPUs. That gives Intel's chips the opportunity to mix and match floating point and integer operations, but does mean you wouldn't always get the full FP32 potential at all times.

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The point of all this is that we can talk about the top-end 512 EU Intel Xe DG2 card coming with 4,096 stream processors, which would potentially put it above the AMD RX 6800. Though only if it could hit the same 1.7GHz clock speed. But, even if we take the released DG1's current 1.65GHz clock speed as a starting point we get a potential 13.5 TFLOPS of processing power, vs. the 13 TFLOPS the base RX 6800 starts at. 

It is fair to say, however, that the RX 6800 is capable of boosting to 2.1GHz in which case it can deliver around 16.2 TFLOPS, which would mean the top DG2 would have to be capable of at least 2GHz performance to be able to consistently beat big Navi.

If this latest GPU list is correct, the 384 EU card would also sit above the AMD RX 6700 XT, clock speeds notwithstanding. The rest of the anticipated cards could then fill in the low end of Intel's Xe DG2 lineup, with the bottom 96 EU chip potentially matching the placement of the current DG1 card with OEMs looking to deliver low-end editing machines.

We still don't have an expected release date for these genuine gaming versions of Intel's Xe GPUs, but we're still positive about a 2021 release for the cards. And if Intel can get some out while Nvidia and AMD are still struggling with stock, then it could be a hell of a time for Intel to offer a third way for gamers to get graphics cards. If they're competitive, anyway.

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