Jin Cramer on Intel: "I Am Confident It Is Indeed Headed in the Right Direction"

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is one of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks Jim Cramer commented on. Cramer showed a bullish sentiment toward the company in the long term. He remarked:

“Rounding out the Nasdaq-100 top 10 is the 84% gain from Intel. After years of underperformance, Intel’s showing signs of life under this terrific new CEO by the name of Lip-Bu Tan. And the stock’s had a major comeback in the back half of the year after the Trump administration invested almost $9 billion in the business and NVIDIA invested another $5 billion a month later. These cash injections help Intel clean up its balance sheet. It’ll take a long time to truly turn this company around, but I am confident it is indeed headed in the right direction.”

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) designs and manufactures processors, chips, memory, and related hardware. Additionally, it provides software, optimization solutions, and AI-enabled platforms. Cramer discussed the company during the October 1, 2025, episode. The Mad Money host commented:

“Then there’s an amazing comeback story in the list, and it’s the story of Intel. Here’s a company where fortunes are changing on the fly, thanks to a phenomenal new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. He’s a legendary semiconductor investor and the man who turned around the wayward Cadence Design Systems. Under his reign, the stock appreciated some 3,200% over a 13-year period. When he came in, he realized that Intel was even worse off than anyone thought.

So what did he do? He did the right thing. He decided first to fix the balance sheet, managed to wrangle $8.9 billion from the federal government in return for a 10% stake. He also raised $2 billion from SoftBank and $5 billion from NVIDIA, where Jensen Huang is an old friend. He saw real potential despite the fact that at one point, well, Intel tried to put NVIDIA out of business. Even as the fruits of all this money are so elusive, the stock still rallied almost 50% last quarter.”

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