INTC Holds the Gap Above $80 as KeyBanc Resets to $110
Intel's post-earnings bid is consolidating but the gap is intact. INTC is at $81.76, up 22.84% over 24 hours after Thursday's Q1 print delivered $0.29 EPS against $0.01 consensus and a Q2 guide $1.3 billion above the street. KeyBanc kicked off the post-print price target resets at $110, well above a sell side that walked into the print with targets clustered in the $50s. Perp turnover on Hyperliquid climbed to $58M as desks reposition into a range most of the street has not caught up to.
Mover Brief
KeyBanc Sets the New Ceiling
KeyBanc raised its INTC price target to $110 on AI server growth, the first post-print reset to land well above the gap. That is $15 above HSBC's $95 call, which had itself been an outlier pre-earnings upgrade from $50 to $95. The rest of the street went into the print with targets clustered in the $50s and $60s — Stifel at $65, Bernstein at $60, BNP Paribas at $60. Spot at $81.76 is above every live target except HSBC's and KeyBanc's. The models that have not been rebuilt yet will be rebuilt this weekend, and Monday's tape is going to open into a second wave of PT-raise headlines.
The Gap Holds
The perp has pulled back from Friday's $85 high but the gap is intact. INTC is at $81.76, up 22.84% over 24 hours on Hyperliquid, on $58.2 million of turnover. That is roughly 60% above the $36.5 million the book did in the first leg of the move — the tape is digesting, not distributing. Up-to-10x on the HIP-3 market lets perp positioning stay tight around the cash-session close without forcing anyone to park margin they do not want to hold through the weekend. The $80 level is the one that matters now. Losing it turns this into a gap-fill conversation; holding it into Monday hands the initiative to the analysts still rebuilding their models.
What Validated the Bid
The numbers that matter are concentrated in one line. Data center revenue grew 22% year-over-year to $5.1 billion, which is the single item the entire AI server thesis needed to confirm. Total revenue of $13.58 billion beat the $12.42 billion consensus, adjusted EPS of $0.29 printed 29x the penny the street was modeling, and AI-related businesses hit 60% of the mix and grew 40% year-over-year. The Q2 guide is the real payload: $13.8 billion to $14.8 billion in revenue against a $13.07 billion consensus, and $0.20 EPS against $0.09. CEO Lip-Bu Tan used the call to flag that 18A yields are running ahead of plan and Xeon demand is outpacing supply. That is a guide above every Q2 model on the street before the Q1 beat, which is why the PT resets started with KeyBanc at $110 and are going to keep going.
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- 1Intel Q1 2026 earnings releaseintc.com
- 2CNBC: Intel Q1 2026 earnings reportcnbc.com
- 3Motley Fool: Intel Q1 2026 earnings call transcriptfool.com
- 4Investing.com: KeyBanc raises Intel price target to $110investing.com
- 524/7 Wall St: HSBC upgrades Intel to Buy, $95 target247wallst.com
- 624/7 Wall St: Stifel raises Intel target to $65247wallst.com
- 7Yahoo Finance: Intel stock soars 25% on Q1 beatfinance.yahoo.com
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