Designs and manufactures processors in its own fabrication plants, and is building a contract foundry business to fill them.
Intel (INTC) scores 2.8 out of 10 as of , computed from its reported financial statements. That reads as low quality. The reading rests on solvency, and efficiency is what holds it back.
2 pillars, profitability and growth, are unscored because the filings behind them carry too little to judge. Each is shown as a dash rather than a zero, and the overall score is the weighted average of what could be scored.
Data provided by Twelve Data. Scores are computed by Lemma Analysis from reported financials.
This is the clearest case in large-cap technology of a household name attached to difficult financials, which is exactly what a quality score is for. Building fabrication capacity is among the most capital-intensive undertakings in any industry, so efficiency and solvency carry the reading while profitability recovers or does not. A score well below the sector here is not a measurement error. It is the point.
Intel (INTC) has a Lemma Quality Score of 2.8 out of 10 as of October 14, 2026, which reads as low quality. A low reading means the reported numbers show weakness on several pillars at once, which is a reason to understand the business before anything else. Five pillars feed it, and every one of them is computed from what the company reported rather than from its share price.
There are not yet enough Technology scores to rank Intel inside its sector, so the comparison below runs across all sectors. Every other company among the 49 companies scores higher, which puts Intel at the very bottom of the group. The median across the group is 6.4, and the top quarter begins at 7.2, so Intel is well below the typical company here.
Profitability has no score for Intel. Fewer than half of the pillar’s metric weight could be computed from the reported statements, so it is drawn as a dash and left out of the overall rather than counted as a zero. For context, the median profitability score across 34 companies is 8.1. Without it the overall leans on balance sheet, growth and consistency, and says little about margins or returns on capital.
Intel’s solvency score is 4.2 out of 10 (average). Against a median of 7.6 among 39 companies, that is well below the group and the 8th percentile. Middling solvency says the balance sheet is neither a strength nor a constraint today.
There is no growth score for Intel: too little of the pillar could be measured from the filings to give an honest reading. The overall is therefore the weighted average of the other pillars. Across 47 companies the median for this pillar is 5.3. Growth needs at least three years of comparable annual statements, so a short or interrupted history leaves it blank.
Intel’s efficiency score is 1.8 out of 10 (weak). Against a median of 6.3 among 45 companies, that is well below the group and the 2nd percentile. Poor conversion of assets and earnings into cash can come from heavy investment phases, and it matters whether that investment is paying off.
On predictability, Intel scores 2.1, a weak reading. Its peers have a median of 5.6 across 49 companies, which places it well below them, at the 5th percentile. A low predictability score often belongs to cyclical businesses, where good and bad years alternate with the economy or with commodity prices.
The profile is uneven. Solvency leads at 4.2 while efficiency trails at 1.8, a gap of 2.4 points, so the overall averages a clear strength against a clear soft spot. A solvency lead means the balance sheet is the company’s strongest asset, a cushion that buys time when trading gets harder. An efficiency shortfall means profit is not turning into cash as readily as it could.
The pillar with the most room to move the score is predictability. If it rose to the median of every company scored, 5.6, Intel’s overall score would go from 2.8 to about 4.1. Only three of the five pillars could be scored. Together they carry 55 of the 100 weight points (the full set is profitability 25, solvency 20, growth 20, efficiency 15, predictability 20), and the overall is the weighted average of those alone.
These are the companies whose overall scores sit closest to Intel’s. Each page is built the same way, so the pillars can be compared side by side.
How much profit the company generates from its capital and sales.
The company’s ability to service debt and meet its obligations.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are compounding.
How well assets and earnings convert into cash and output.
How stable and consistent results have been over time.
Each metric is scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks, where higher is better. Metrics roll up into five pillars, and the pillars combine into the overall score using the weights shown. Sector-sensitive metrics are judged relative to peers in the same sector.
This score is a systematic, backward-looking read of reported fundamentals. It does not judge valuation, management quality, competitive moat, or future prospects, and can be distorted by one-off items or unusual accounting. Treat it as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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On this reading Intel scores 2.8 out of 10, which reads as low quality. Its strongest pillar is solvency, its weakest is efficiency. Quality is not the same as a good investment: the score says nothing about the price you would pay.
Intel ranks at the 0th percentile of the 49 companies Lemma publishes a score for. The median there is 6.4 and the top quarter starts at 7.2, against Intel’s 2.8.
Five pillars, each scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks and then weighted into one overall reading: profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability. Everything comes from reported financials, and nothing comes from price, sentiment or forecasts.
This page last changed on October 14, 2026. The score moves with the financial statements, so the page changes when a new filing moves the reading rather than on a schedule. Live figures for INTC are in the app.
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