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SoftBank (SFTBF) poured 67% of its $18B US portfolio into Intel (INTC), a $12B single-stock bet on the American semiconductor turnaround.
Symbotic (SYM) at 10% and T-Mobile (TMUS) at 9% are SoftBank’s next-largest US holdings, dwarfed by the massive Intel concentration.
Intel grew Q2 revenue 25% YoY and nearly doubled EPS estimates, yet dropped 27% before Son’s 13F filing hit public disclosure.
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On August 14, 2026, Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group (OTC:SFTBF) disclosed via 13F that it had funneled 66.81% of its disclosed US equity portfolio into a single name: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC). The position, held as of June 30, 2026, totaled 86,956,522 shares valued at $12,141,739,167. For a fund of SoftBank’s scale, that level of single-stock concentration is a directional bet on an American semiconductor turnaround.
What Son Bought, and Why the Size Matters
The other holdings look almost decorative next to Intel. Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) sits at 9.85% ($1.79B) and T-Mobile US (NASDAQ:TMUS) at 9.23% ($1.68B). Everything else, including SoftBank’s fintech basket of Klarna, Chime, eToro, Nu Holdings, and Inter & Co, rounds to noise against the Intel weighting.
Son’s team was not chasing momentum blindly. Recall that SoftBank had already committed a $2.0 billion strategic investment into Intel that closed in Q3 2025, alongside NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s $5.0 billion equity investment. The 13F confirms Son doubled down at scale, buying the recovery story rather than trimming into strength.
The Underlying Thesis
Intel’s operating fundamentals justify at least part of the aggression. Q2 FY2026, reported July 23, 2026, delivered revenue of $16.128 billion, up 25.4% year-over-year, and non-GAAP EPS of $0.42 against a $0.22 estimate. Data Center and AI revenue jumped 59% YoY to $6.262 billion. CEO Lip-Bu Tan called it “the strongest revenue growth in more than 15 years” and flagged the seventh consecutive quarter of exceeding financial expectations.
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The bigger signal is capex. Zinsner guided 2026 capex above $20 billion, with 2027 significantly higher. That is a company building physical AI infrastructure with government support behind it, precisely the “critical asset” profile Son historically pays up for (the same power, cooling, and networking suppliers behind that buildout are the subject of a free report we put together here: 7 Stocks Powering the AI Boom). Intel’s Q3 2026 guide sits at $15.8B to $16.8B in revenue with 42% non-GAAP gross margin.
