Intel, Meta Platforms, & Lucid Motors: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly 6-25-26
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast · 2026-06-25 · 2 min
Substance score
8 / 100
Five dimensions, 20 points each
Scott Becker reviews three major tech and automotive stocks: Intel's 263% year-to-date rally (the good), Meta Platforms' 30% decline from its 52-week high (the bad), and Lucid Motors' 75% drop over 12 months (the ugly).
Key takeaways
- Intel has experienced a remarkable 263% year-to-date stock surge that surprised many investors and marks a significant turnaround for the chipmaker.
- Meta Platforms stock has declined approximately 30% from its 52-week high and shows weakness over recent months with mounting challenges.
- Lucid Motors' stock has collapsed 75% over the past 12 months, making it a struggling player in the electric vehicle market compared to Tesla and Rivian.
- The three companies represent contrasting performance scenarios worth monitoring for investors and private equity professionals.
Topics in this episode
What our scoring noted
Our reviewer’s read on each dimension, with quotes from the episode.
Insight Density
The entire episode is a recitation of three stock price movements with no analysis of causation, competitive dynamics, or forward-looking reasoning. There is not a single non-obvious claim made in the full runtime.
Intel is about 263% year to date. That's a massive turnaround
Nothing seems to be going right for Meta Platform
Originality
The episode contains zero original thinking - it is a surface-level summary of publicly available stock performance data, credited to a Bar Chart article, with no contrarian or first-principles framing whatsoever.
A great article in Bar Chart. Nothing seems to be going right for Meta Platform
Woulda, coulda, shoulda, uh, I wish I invested in Intel
Guest Caliber
There are no guests; it is a solo two-minute monologue by the host/publisher. No practitioner, operator, or domain expert perspective is offered at any point.
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast
Specificity & Evidence
The only specifics present are three stock-price percentage figures (263%, 30%, 75%), which are publicly available data points, not business evidence. No revenue, margin, product, or operational detail is provided for any of the three companies.
Intel up 263%
Meta, uh, platforms, Facebook down about 2830 over the last 52 weeks
Conversational Craft
This is a brief solo monologue with no guest, no questions, no follow-ups, and no pushback of any kind. The format precludes any conversational craft by design.
So those are our three stocks today. The good, the bad and the ugly.
Thank you for listening to the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity podcast. Looking forward to our CEO summit next month
Conversation analysis
Computed from the transcript - who did the talking, and the verbal tics along the way.
Share of words spoken
- Speaker A83%
- Speaker B14%
- Speaker C3%
Filler words
Episode notes
In this episode, Scott Becker breaks down Intel's remarkable surge, Meta's ongoing struggles, and Lucid Motors' steep decline in a look at three very different stock stories.
Full transcript
2 minTranscribed and scored by The B2B Podcast Index.
Speaker A: This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. Today's discussion is Intel, Meta Platforms and Lucid Motors. The good, the bad and the ugly. So here's the deal with these three companies. Uh, first the good. Intel is about 263% year to date. That's a massive turnaround that at least many of us didn't see coming to the US And Nvidia got involved with intel, but a massive, massive Turnaround, up about 260% year to date. Woulda, coulda, shoulda, uh, I wish I invested in Intel. Second, Meta Platforms stock is down nearly 30% from its 52 week high and it's looked really frail over the last few sessions. Last few months it's really struggling. A great article in Bar Chart. Nothing seems to be going right for Meta Platform. So that's the bad and they're done about 30% of the last 52 weeks. So that's the good is intel, the bad is Meta Platforms. The ugly has to be Lucid Motors. Lucid Motors, the electric car maker. It's sort of the poor stepchild to Tesla and Rivian. Although, uh, Tesla's down 2 year to date and Rivian, I haven't seen what their stock is doing most recently. Uh, but ultimately Lucid is down about 75% over the last 12 months. Uh, that's a disaster in the, in the big scheme of things. So those are our three stocks today. The good, the bad and the ugly. Intel up 263%. Meta, uh, platforms, Facebook down about 2830 over the last 52 weeks. And Lucid Motors taking it on the chin, finding no charge in its electric vehicles, down 75% over the last 52 weeks. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity podcast. Looking forward to our CEO summit next month and can't wait. Thank you for listening to the Becker business and Becker Private equity podcast. Thank you very much.
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