Intel's Earning Release 1-13-2011

New quarterly/annual reports start as Alcoa kicked off another round of earning releases on 1/10/2011.Intel reported on Thursday with great quarterly and annual results. However, the market reactions was not as great: 1% drop on the share price on Friday (Price is at 21.08).

Intel share price rose ~7.6% since last earning report while S&P500 gained ~10% and Nasdaq gained ~11%. It's sort of funny while investors all look at Intel for the signal of tech sector but just waiting to decide what else they should invest. People could still say it's still good to have INTC as part of portfolio to minimize risk and get dividend. So see if you belong to that group.

I like Intel's thoughts on security issues, plans for cloud computing and mobile computing but I would like to see those things payoff before I start to put it into my growth stock list:).

Now, let's take a look at the financials after Intel's latest report.

Sales growth and margins are all very good.

I guess it's pretty safe to say recession is really over by looking at Intel's EPS trend:). Again, great earnings (some upside surprise as well) but market didn't react well. I would say Intel won't beat the S&P500 by next quarter.

Previous quarterly report analysis on Intel:

http://mzexcel.blogspot.com/2010/10/intels-er.html