Intel Stock (NASDAQ:INTC) Slides as CPU-Z Stats Show Substantial Sales Decline
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The reports from CPU-Z revealed that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D gave AMD a huge boost in sales, particularly for those who like to make their own PCs. That chip did not just help on that front, the reports noted, as it also gave AMD a hefty boost in CPU sales shares overall. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D managed to become the most popular chip at several different chip stores, selling the most units and becoming overall most popular.
Since CPU-Z collects data via user validation, the report requires it be taken with a certain grain of salt. But it allows a way to check sales that does not depend on measuring shipments. We already knew that AMD now has about 80% of the CPU market under its control, based on figures from Amazon (AMZN), but CPU-Z's reports give a look from a slightly different angle, one that underscores the results provided from Amazon's figure. The latest data does Intel no favors, having lost around 10% of its market share while AMD landed an extra 16.6%.
Down But Not Out
Yet Intel is not out of this fight by any means. In fact, it just lowered prices on the Intel Core i5-14600K processor to their lowest levels yet. Now, the processor is running at right around $200 in some places, which will make this chip even more accessible to home PC builders.
In fact, with the current economic environment looking like it is, there will likely be some who may have wanted an AMD chip, but might instead settle for the lower-cost 14 th Gen Core processor from Intel instead. With reports suggesting that it can still hold its own in head-to-head face-offs, yet do so at a downright bargain price, the i5-14600K may just be what Intel needed to get some of that lost market share back even in these uncertain times.
Is Intel a Buy, Hold or Sell?
Turning to Wall Street, analysts have a Hold consensus rating on INTC stock based on one Buy, 27 Holds and four Sells assigned in the past three months, as indicated by the graphic below. After a 47.77% loss in its share price over the past year, the average INTC price target of $23.11 per share implies 18.63% upside potential.
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