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Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

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Re: Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

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Post by viral007 »

FDAiscooked wrote: post #2

Intel has been atrociously managed. If you invested $1 in Intel in 1998, your investment would still be worth $1. Less than that if you adjust for inflation.

I can attest to it, the value hasn't grown much in my inactive portfolio. This portfolio was set up as set it and forget it in 1999. I will need to run a realized gain/loss statement.

Re: Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

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Post by papercrane »

FDAiscooked wrote: post #2

Intel has been atrociously managed. If you invested $1 in Intel in 1998, your investment would still be worth $1. Less than that if you adjust for inflation.

You can't just look at the stock price. INTC has split and had dividends since 1998.

If you bought $10,000 of INTC in Sept 19th, 1998 and held it to today the stock would be worth $17,000 and you would've collected almost $12,000 in dividends.

Re: Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

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Post by dgacmu »

FDAiscooked wrote: post #2

Intel has been atrociously managed. If you invested $1 in Intel in 1998, your investment would still be worth $1. Less than that if you adjust for inflation.

With the stock split and dividends reinvested, the $1 would now be worth $1.64, _not_ inflation adjusted. You'd still be in bad shape if you inflation adjust - the $1 with inflation would be $1.93. So you've still lost money overall, alas.

If you didn't reinvest the dividends you'd be ahead, though. Which is kind of ironic - but you'd have taken out a fair bit of money from 2016-2022 when the price was high.

Re: Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

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Post by happyopossum »

papercrane wrote: post #13
FDAiscooked wrote: post #2

Intel has been atrociously managed. If you invested $1 in Intel in 1998, your investment would still be worth $1. Less than that if you adjust for inflation.

You can't just look at the stock price. INTC has split and had dividends since 1998. If you bought $10,000 of INTC in Sept 19th, 1998 and held it to today the stock would be worth $17,000 and you would've collected almost $12,000 in dividends.

That's just over a 4% annualized return, if we back out inflation it's about 1.5%.

That's still crap. The only way you'd be in decent shape is if you took the dividends and invested those in any of INTC's competitors.

Re: Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

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Post by defen »

papercrane wrote: post #13
FDAiscooked wrote: post #2

Intel has been atrociously managed. If you invested $1 in Intel in 1998, your investment would still be worth $1. Less than that if you adjust for inflation.

You can't just look at the stock price. INTC has split and had dividends since 1998. If you bought $10,000 of INTC in Sept 19th, 1998 and held it to today the stock would be worth $17,000 and you would've collected almost $12,000 in dividends.

Just imagine if you'd invested that money in Domino's Pizza instead (the hungry investor strategy). You'd have like $350,000.

Re: Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

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Post by Dalewyn »

synergy20 wrote: post #14

Intel is 1/3 of AMD by market cap but 6x the employee, that's 18x difference. If QCOM takes over INTC, they might need let a LOT go to revamp it, like 80% of them.

It's not happening though, an acquisition of Intel means the end of x86 due to cross-licensing terms between Intel and AMD which stipulate they all terminate upon either party being acquired.

Granted, Qualcomm has interests in ARM so this might actually be what they want: Embrace, No Extending, Extinguish.

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