AMD
AMD price target boosted on strengthening AI outlook
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BUY- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) saw its price target raised to $600 from $450 by Wedbush following the chipmaker's Advancing AI 2026 event, with the analysts writing that new partnerships and improving supply chain conditions increased confidence in Advanced Micro Devices's data-center AI growth trajectory.
- Advanced Micro Devices hosted its Adv advancing AI event on Wednesday and Thursday, featuring a keynote presentation from CEO Lisa Su and management followed by an investor roundtable, with management avoiding discussing near-term financial performance ahead of AMD's second-quarter 2026 earnings report.
- The analysts noted that AMD is increasingly positioning itself as an end-to-end compute franchise spanning GPUs, CPUs, networking, software, client computing, and physical AI, with newly announced agreements with Microsoft and Anthropic providing greater confidence that AMD's data center AI silicon and systems revenue will substantially accelerate in the second half of 2026 and through 2027.
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Growth Stock Scoring Breakdown
| METRIC | VALUE | WEIGHT | ANALYSIS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Growth TTM ? | 35.0% | 25% | 85.0 ptsExcellent (35.0%) - Strong growth |
| EPS Growth Next 5Y ? | 65.8% | 25% | 100.0 ptsExceptional (65.8%) - Very high expectations |
| Target Price Upside ? | 9.4% | 20% | 35.0 ptsBelow Screener (9.4%) - Target: $571.18 vs Current: $522.03 |
| Gross Margin % ? | 47.1% | 15% | 60.0 ptsSolid (47.1%) - Decent margins |
| Drawdown from 52-Wk High ? | -10.7% | 15% | 40.0 ptsMild Pullback (-10.7%) - Light entry opportunity |
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About AMD
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company internationally.
- It operates in three segments: Data Center, Client and Gaming, and Embedded.
- The company offers artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators, microprocessors, and graphics processing units (GPUs) as standalone devices or as incorporated into accelerated processing units, chipsets, and data center and professional GPUs; and embedded processors and semi-custom system-on-chip (SoC) products, microprocessor and SoC development services and technology, data processing units, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), system on modules, AI network interface cards, and adaptive SoC products.
- It provides processors under the AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen AI, AMD Ryzen PRO, AMD Ryzen Threadripper, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO, AMD Athlon, and AMD PRO A-Series brands; graphics under the AMD Radeon graphics and AMD Embedded Radeon graphics; professional graphics under the AMD Radeon Pro graphics brand; and AI and general-purpose compute infrastructure for hyperscale providers.
- The company offers data center graphics under the AMD Instinct accelerators and Radeon PRO V-series brands; server microprocessors under the AMD EPYC brand; low power solutions under the AMD Athlon, AMD Geode, AMD Ryzen, AMD EPYC, and AMD R-Series and G-Series brands; FPGA products under the Virtex-6, Virtex-7, Virtex UltraScale+, Kintex-7, Kintex UltraScale, Kintex UltraScale+, Artix-7, Artix UltraScale+, Spartan-6, and Spartan-7 brands; adaptive SOCs under the Zynq-7000, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs, Versal HBM, Versal Premium, Versal Prime, Versal AI Core, Versal AI Edge, Vitis, and Vivado brands; and compute and network acceleration board products under the Alveo and Pensando brands.
- It serves original equipment and design manufacturers, public cloud service providers, system integrators, distributors, and add-in-board manufacturers.
- The company was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.