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We are going through our biggest restructuring in 40 years

Intel (INTC) is leaving investors with a bad case of shock and awe.

Shares of the chip giant crashed roughly 25% on Friday morning, following quarterly earnings on Thursday that could only be described as brutal. The company’s ticker page on Yahoo Finance became the No. 1 most visited this morning, surpassing

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(AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) after both tech titans reported better-than-expected quarters.

Intel missed analyst estimates widely on sales, ****** profit margin, and earnings as it encountered more challenging market conditions and higher-than-expected costs to ramp AI chip production.

The company took the drastic action of suspending its dividend, which will go into effect in the fourth quarter. Intel has paid a dividend for 125 straight quarters previously, including $3.1 billion in 2023.

The company further announced a 15% headcount reduction to preserve liquidity. It had about 125,000 employees as of the end of the second quarter.

The company also cut its capital expenditure spending for 2024 by 20% compared to its prior estimate. Capital expenditure for 2025 is seen to be about $5 billion lower than 2024 levels.

“This is the biggest restructuring of Intel I’d say since the memory microprocessor decision four decades ago,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told me in a live interview on Yahoo Finance. Gelsinger says he’s in it for the long haul despite being disappointed in the quarter and

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“This is what I signed up for [when I came in as CEO],” Gelsinger added.

The quarter and commentary cast fresh doubt on Intel’s efforts to regain a leadership position in an industry dominated by better-performing names Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD).

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President Joe Biden listens to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, left, as Intel factory manager Hugh Green watches during a tour of the Intel Ocotillo Campus, in Chandler, Ariz., on March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Earlier this year, Intel won $8.5 billion in grants and another $11 billion in loans from the Biden administration to build semiconductor plants in four states. The build-outs are part of Intel’s goal to become a leading maker of chips for other companies, rivaling No. 1 player Taiwan Semiconductors (TSMC).

Now, Wall Street is voicing concern yet again on Intel’s turnaround plan.

Said JPMorgan analyst Harlan Sur, “This marks the third consecutive quarter of negative revenue reset, and disappointing guidance, which we believe reflects the challenging industry fundamentals combined with company-specific drivers.”

Sur reiterated his Underweight (Sell equivalent) rating on Intel.

The earnings rundown

Net Sales: -1% year over year to $12.8 billion vs. estimate of $12.95 billion

Client Computing Sales: $7.4 billion vs. estimate of $7.53 billion

Data Center & AI Sales: $3 billion vs. $3.07 billion

Network & Edge Sales: $1.3 billion vs. $1.4 billion

Mobileye Sales: $440 million vs. $429.7 million

Intel Foundry Sales: $4.3 million vs. $4.47 billion

Adjusted ****** Margin: 38.7% vs. 43.6% estimate

Adjusted EPS: $0.02 ($0.13 a year ago) vs. estimate of $0.10

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