Intel rose 414% in a year. On price it is 13.6 points ahead over five.
INTEL (INTC) returned +414.2% over twelve months on price, and +88.5% over five years against +74.9% for the S&P 500 price index. The year was a rebound from the bottom of its own 52-week closing range, and the fall it rebounded from sits inside the same five-year window.
A twelve-month return of 414% and a five-year return of 88.5%
INTEL (INTC) closed at $101.65 on 7 August 2026.1 It is a company rather than a fund, and it designs and manufactures its own chips. Over twelve months it returned +414.2% on price. The S&P 500 price index returned +22.4%. Over five years Intel returned +88.5% on price and the index +74.9%. So a year that multiplied the share price fivefold finishes the five-year window 13.6 percentage points ahead of the index. Both figures are price only and exclude dividends, for Intel and for the index. On a total-return basis the comparison would move, and total return is outside this note. That comparison is the subject of this note. The 414% is a rebound, not a compounding record, and the fall it rebounded from happened inside the same five years rather than before them. Its 52-week closing range ran from $19.95 to $140.94, and the low end of that range is where the rebound started. It has not been smooth since. At $101.65 it sits 27.9% below its closing high, its deepest fall inside the year was 41.9% measured on closing prices, and it has lost 18.6% over the past three months. The twelve-month and five-year figures describe the same holding over different windows.
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