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TickerINTC
SectorSemiconductors
Mkt cap$627.8B
EV / EBITDA57.5×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite78/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 50863

Intel Corp.

INTCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Intel Corp. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Sustained Capital Deployer deploying $100K across 0 disclosed transactions, down 100% vs the prior cycle · primary market Semis & Hardware.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$100K

−99%

vs $1B in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

−99%

1/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Sustained Capital Deployer

Large disclosed acquisition spend recurs across many years.

Composite score

78

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$53.8B
EBITDA$11.4B
Enterprise value$655.6B
EV / Revenue12.2×
EV / EBITDA57.5×
P/EN/A
Cash$17.2B
Total debt$2B
as of 2026-05-10
§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Behavioral posture, nine reads.

Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.

Active Acquirer

58/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $46.4B disclosed buyer spend
  • Filed within 26d

Buyer Cadence

32/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 26d
  • 449 8-Ks

Target Probability

24/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 124 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

  • 124 activism filings

Pressure Watch

23/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 124 activism filings
  • Latest activism 5.3y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 124 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
78/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 449 8-Ks
  • Filed within 26d
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $655.6B
  • 10-Q 32d ago
  • 2 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Capital cadence.

Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.

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19
20
21
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23
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25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $15,451M · Peak count: 12

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/A$100KN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
20228N/AN/AN/A
2021N/A$209MN/AN/A
20206$837M$140MN/A
§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Strategy posture.

The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.

Archetype mix

  • Geographic Expansion
    20%
  • Technology Acquisition
    20%
  • Platform
    20%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    20%
  • Bolt On
    20%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • platform
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • geographic_expansion
  • technology_acquisition
  • talent_acquisition
  • bolt_on
  • tuck_in
§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

The goodwill arising from the acquisition is attributed to the expected synergies and other benefits that will be generated from the combination of Intel and Moovit.

10-KFY2021

Habana Labs strengthens our AI portfolio and accelerates our efforts to capitalize on the nascent, fast-growing AI silicon market opportunity.

10-KFY2020

The acquisition-related intangible assets are primarily related to Moovit's monthly active user base and application platform.

10-KFY2021

The acquisition is expected to advance our IDM 2.0 strategy by accelerating our global end-to-end systems foundry business.

10-KFY2022
§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Market context.

Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.

Primary market

Semis & Hardware

Market spend (2023–2025)
$118.8B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$89.3B
Recent vs prior
+33%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

57.5×EV / EBITDA

INTC trades at a +38.0-turn premium to the Semis & Hardware peer median of 19.5×.

EV / Revenue
12.2×
Net debt / EBITDA
-1.3×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
19.5×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
Intel Corp.INTC
57.5×12.2×-1.3×$53.8B$100K
30.8×8.0×3.8×$3.2B$6B
21.7×6.6×-0.1×$25.9B$6.9B
19.5×4.5×2.8×$4.7B$1.8B
18.1×5.4×-0.4×$44.5B$997M
14.5×3.5×-0.2×$18.5B$3.1B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Semis & Hardware. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Target landscape.

Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.

No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.

Stated target categories

No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing activity & signal stream.

Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.

Filing cadence

  • 10-K (annual)342026-01-23
  • 10-Q (quarterly)972026-04-24
  • 8-K (event)4492026-04-30
  • Proxy / DEF 14A1072026-03-23
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)1242021-01-29

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2021-01-29

    124 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Audited corpus.

No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.

This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.

Intel Corp.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster