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It is important to understand that every business has both direct, and indirect competitors:
DIRECT Competitors: Companies that offer the exact same product or service (or very similar) that your company provides.
INDIRECT Competitors: Products or services that may be similar or in related industries, or may have a strong influence on your company's key revenue sources. In Intel's case, the direct competitors are obvious: other semiconductor companies like AMD (for PCs) and Texas Instruments (Mobile Phones and Devices). However, an indirect competitor (or competitive trend) to monitor might be Apple Computer's growing computer market share, and their recent decision to start making their own semiconductor chips, rather than using Intel's processors. Further, as Intel is trying to grow its video processor chip division, it is important to watch what the leader in that market, NVidia (NVDA) is doing.
There are actually two ways to look at Competitors from Yahoo! Finance... The first is the link above, clicking the "Competitors" link in the sidebar. That provides the side-by-side comparison of the top competitors' key financials and other statistics. But there is also the link to your stock's competitors by going through the Sector > Industry link here... After we went on to click the Industry link for "Semiconductor - Broad Line" we find that they list the top 5 industry performers (by Market Capitalization) in this Industry subcategory, which helps us to find these "direct" competitors to Intel... The five top performing companies indicated are:
Intel (INTC): #1 by Market Capitalization in this Industry list
Texas Instruments (TXN)
STMicroelectronics (STM)
Analog Devices (ADI)
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Google News Headlines: This simply searches for your company name or stock symbol, to see relating stories among its competitors. All additional perspective helps, to determine factors which can affect your stock positively or negatively. Knowing the latest news about your company and its competitors can stop you from buying, compel you to sell, or further encourage you buy a stock...
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