Nomura Securities Maintains a 'Reduce' on Intel (INTC); 3Q Earnings Preview

October 12, 2011 9:44 AM EDT
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Nomura Securities maintains a 'Reduce' on Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) price target of $18.00.

Nomura analyst, Romit Shah, said, "We expect Intel to report 3Q revenue of $13.5bn (up 4% q/q) or at the low-end of the company’s revenue guidance of $14bn +/- $500mn. We are modeling gross margin of 63.5%, which is 50bps below guidance of 64%. We are forecasting Q3 EPS of $0.57 vs. consensus of $0.61. We believe microprocessor activity was sub-seasonal in Q3 due to weak consumer and enterprise PC demand. We believe the company is benefitting from supply constraints at AMD (NYSE: AMD) that could add a couple hundred million to revenue in Q3 and Q4. As such, we believe our forecast of flat revenue growth in Q4 could be conservative."

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Shares of Intel closed at $22.99 yesterday.


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