
Meta (NASDAQ: META | META Price Prediction) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) both reported Q1 2026 results that sharpened a debate about who actually earns money from the AI buildout.
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is the developer of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).
| Revenue (TTM) | $53.76B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $20.00B |
| EBITDA | $14.17B |
| Operating Margin | 6.88% |
| Return on Equity | -2.91% |
| Return on Assets | 0.63% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $11.40 |
| Book Value | $22.18 |
| Price-to-Book | 5.43 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 10.31 |
| EV/Revenue | 11.48 |
| EV/EBITDA | 54.03 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | -71.70% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 7.20% |
| Shares Outstanding | $5.03B |
| Float | $5.02B |
| % Insiders | 14.72% |
| % Institutions | 63.98% |
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Meta (NASDAQ: META | META Price Prediction) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) both reported Q1 2026 results that sharpened a debate about who actually earns money from the AI buildout.

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD | AMD Price Prediction) are up 7% to $555.26 in early trading Thursday, leading a broad semiconductor rebound.

Chip stocks were set for a rebound on Thursday as investors stepped back into the AI hardware trade after two brutal sessions of profit-taking. Micron rose 3.5% in premarket trading to $982.05, while AMD and Intel also gained over 2.5% after recent Wall Street target hikes helped restore some confidence in the sector.

The AI trade mounts a comeback as investors get over the worst of their fears about a flare-up in tensions between the U.S. and Iran.


A systemic margin cascade emanating from the KOSPI index triggered a violent, automated liquidation across the broader semiconductor sector on Tuesday. When highly leveraged positions in Asian markets face abrupt margin calls, global hedge funds are frequently forced to liquidate their most liquid holdings to raise cash quickly.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC | INTC Price Prediction) has done the unthinkable.

SIMO's cheaper valuation and strong growth potential make it a better investment option than INTC despite both firms' solid fundamentals.

This article was written by Doug Nathman, with research by his team at Trefis.

Mad Money host Jim Cramer has been a vocal fan of shares of Intel (NASDAQ:INTC | INTC Price Prediction).