By Khadija Saeed
Publication Date: 2025-12-31 22:16:00
NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 5:02 PM ET — After-hours
- Intel shares fell about 1% in Wednesday’s regular session and were little changed in after-hours trading.
- Investors continue to weigh Nvidia’s newly disclosed $5 billion equity purchase in Intel via a private placement.
- Focus turns to early-January macro data and Intel’s next quarterly update as 2026 trading begins.
Intel Corp (INTC) shares fell about 1.0% in Wednesday’s regular session to $36.90 and were little changed in after-hours trading. The stock ranged from $36.84 to $38.01 on the day, with volume around 51 million shares.
The move tracked a tech-led dip that pulled the S&P 500 down 0.73% and the Nasdaq off 0.76% in holiday-thin trading, Reuters reported. “It’s perfectly fine in any bull market to have moments of cost,” said Giuseppe Sette, co-founder and president of Reflexivity. Reuters
For Intel, the year-end pullback matters because the stock has become tightly linked to sentiment on big, capital-heavy turnarounds in semiconductors. Investors have been weighing how quickly Intel can stabilize finances while spending to expand manufacturing capacity.
Nvidia has purchased Intel shares worth $5 billion, Intel said in a filing on Monday, completing a transaction announced in September. Nvidia agreed to pay $23.28 per share for more than 214.7 million Intel shares in a private placement — a sale directly to an investor rather than in a public offering — after U.S. antitrust agencies cleared the…
