Intel's numbers show that PC makers bought more chips than expected in the quarter that ended June 27. Part of the reason is a pickup in end user demand, but another big reason is that customers have burned through massive amounts of inventory to save money, and now need to restock.
The No. 2 PC maker, Dell Inc. warned this week that the U.S. computer market might have hit bottom, but its sales to businesses remain weak. CEO Michael Dell said penny-pinching computer buyers appear to be holding on to their existing machines for longer than is typical.
I don't know how you people read ER, but this is a strong ER no matter how you read it.
Revenue drop? Of course, the stock price also dropped a lot from last year (actually, more than 15%).
The key here is 12% Q over Q increase. Usually Q2 is a weak quarter. 12% increase basically confirms that "the bottom WAS in". Of course, there are a lot of ways to read "the bottom", because Intel also said a while back "we are resetting to a new low level and grow from there." So the upside is not huge from here. Maybe 20-22 bucks, that is all.
I don't know how you people read ER, but this is a strong ER no matter how you read it.
Revenue drop? Of course, the stock price also dropped a lot from last year (actually, more than 15%).
The ...
polopolo 发表于 2009-7-15 09:56
Well, Intel earns about $1B each qtr,
Let's say it will earn more in the 4th qtr, so total earning is about $6B, so it will PE will be 17 at current price.
For company like intc, I do not see 17 is low PE at all
Tech is a very seasonal industry, so Q3 and Q4 will exceed 1B by a lot easily. By the way, Intel operates in a high gross margin industry, which basically says they have a printing press, but the printing press itself is very expensive (in Intel case, equipments costs several billions a year). This is not unusual in high tech industry, think MSFT. But Intel is one of the few hardware companies that can do this.