zumindest die bislang veroeffentlichte meinung ist positiv fuer intel und, darauf basierend, den tech-bereich. vielleicht wurde aber mit 2.5% tagesplus bei intel schon einiges vorweggenommen
"SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Intel Corp. on Thursday posted a huge jump in fourth-quarter profit, topping Wall Street estimates, as the world's biggest chipmaker saw higher sales for PC processors.
Shares of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip company rose 2.7% in after-hours trading.
News Hub: Economists cautious on outlook for 2010WSJ's Phil Izzo parses the latest findings from The Wall Street Journal's monthly survey of leading economists. Intel /quotes/comstock/15*!intc/quotes/nls/intc (INTC 21.74, +0.26, +1.21%) reported a fourth-quarter profit of $2.3 billion, or 40 cents a share, compared with a profit of $234 million, or 4 cents a share, for the year-earlier period.
Revenue was $10.6 billion, up from $8.2 billion for the same quarter in the year-earlier period. Adjusted income was 55 cents a share.
Analysts had expected the chip giant to report earnings of 30 cents a share, on revenue of $10.2 billion, according to a consensus survey by Thomson Reuters.
For the current quarter, Intel said it expects revenue of $9.7 billion, plus or minus $400 million. Analysts currently project sales of $9.35 billion, according to a consensus survey by Thomson Reuters.
"Nice beat," said analyst Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates. "Outlook is pretty strong too. ... Some people were worried the top line would be light, but not so. This is great news for the industry."" |