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FCF Margin for Intel (INTC)

As of · Reported

Metric

TTM

-5.8%

YoY change

+20.12pp

Trough year (2024)

-29.5%

Peak year (1996)

27.4%

FCF Margin history chart for Intel (INTC) from 1989 to 2025

Latest: -9.4%

FCF Margin change chart for Intel (INTC) from 1989 to 2025

Latest: +20.12pp

FCF Margin history table for Intel (INTC) from 1989 to 2025

  • 2025-9.4%+20.12pp
  • 2024-29.5%-3.15pp
  • 2023-26.3%-11.08pp
  • 2022-15.3%-26.80pp
  • 202111.5%-15.33pp
  • 202026.9%+3.35pp
  • 201923.5%+3.41pp
  • 201820.1%+3.65pp
  • 201716.5%-4.05pp
  • 201620.5%-0.39pp
  • 201520.9%+2.61pp
  • 201418.3%-0.73pp
  • 201319.0%+5.83pp
  • 201213.2%-5.69pp
  • 201118.9%-7.44pp
  • 201026.3%+7.38pp
  • 200918.9%+3.70pp
  • 200815.2%-4.65pp
  • 200719.9%+6.21pp
  • 200613.7%-9.51pp
  • 200523.2%-3.92pp
  • 200427.1%+1.04pp
  • 200326.1%+9.54pp
  • 200216.5%+11.47pp
  • 20015.1%-13.18pp
  • 200018.2%-8.75pp
  • 199927.0%+8.99pp
  • 199818.0%-3.97pp
  • 199722.0%-5.47pp
  • 199627.4%+24.50pp
  • 19952.9%-1.75pp
  • 19944.7%-5.20pp
  • 19939.9%+2.93pp
  • 19927.0%-1.44pp
  • 19918.4%-0.23pp
  • 19908.6%-0.38pp
  • 19899.0%—

FCF Margin values are taken from Intel's reported income statements (quarterly 10-Q and annual 10-K filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). Each row shows the period end date and the filing date. YoY compares each figure to the same period one year earlier. Amounts are in USD as filed.

About FCF Margin at Intel (INTC)

According to Intel's latest reported financial statements, the company's latest reported free cash flow margin is -5.8%. Free cash flow margin is free cash flow divided by revenue — the share of each sales dollar that converts into cash after capital expenditures. Because free cash flow cannot be inflated by non-cash accounting, FCF margin is a clean read on how efficiently a business turns revenue into deployable cash.

Headline figure above is from the reporting period ending (reported ). Chart and table below cover the full reported history back to .

The 2025 reading of Intel (INTC) free cash flow margin is -9.36% – expanded 20.1 percentage points year-over-year.

Across the available history, free cash flow margin reached its high of 27.43% in 1996 and its low of -29.48% in 2024.

Intel FCF Margin by Year

Intel FCF Margin 2025: -9.4%

In 2025, Intel reported free cash flow margin of -9.36%, expanded 20.1 percentage points from 2024.

Intel FCF Margin 2024: -29.5%

Intel free cash flow margin in 2024 was -29.48%, contracted 3.2 percentage points from 2023. This figure represents the lowest annual value in the available history.

Intel FCF Margin 2023: -26.3%

2023's free cash flow margin for Intel came in at -26.33%, contracted 11.1 percentage points from 2022.

Intel FCF Margin 2022: -15.3%

Intel posted free cash flow margin of -15.25% in 2022, contracted 26.8 percentage points from 2021.

Intel FCF Margin 2021: 11.5%

Intel free cash flow margin in 2021 was 11.55%.

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