Waverton Investment Management Ltd Has $280.98 Million Position in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. $AMD

Waverton Investment Management Ltd reduced its position in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) by 4.2% in the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 1,736,942 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock after selling 75,289 shares during the period. Advanced Micro Devices accounts for 3.6% of Waverton Investment Management Ltd’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 11th biggest holding. Waverton Investment Management Ltd’s holdings in Advanced Micro Devices were worth $280,976,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the business. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. raised its position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 61.0% during the 3rd quarter. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. now owns 161 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 61 shares during the last quarter. ORG Wealth Partners LLC boosted its position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 39.7% in the 3rd quarter. ORG Wealth Partners LLC now owns 162 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock worth $26,000 after purchasing an additional 46 shares during the last quarter. Pinney & Scofield Inc. grew its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 81.0% during the second quarter. Pinney & Scofield Inc. now owns 190 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 85 shares during the period. Aviso Financial Inc. grew its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 400.0% during the third quarter. Aviso Financial Inc. now owns 200 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock worth $32,000 after purchasing an additional 160 shares during the period. Finally, Signature Resources Capital Management LLC increased its holdings in Advanced Micro Devices by 170.4% in the third quarter. Signature Resources Capital Management LLC now owns 219 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $35,000 after purchasing an additional 138 shares during the last quarter. 71.34% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Advanced Micro Devices Stock Down 1.7%

Shares of AMD stock opened at $200.21 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 2.01 and a current ratio of 2.85. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $219.59 and its 200-day moving average is $208.39. The stock has a market cap of $326.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 75.55, a PEG ratio of 0.76 and a beta of 1.94. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has a 52-week low of $76.48 and a 52-week high of $267.08.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, February 3rd. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.53 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.32 by $0.21. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 8.84% and a net margin of 12.52%.The company had revenue of $10.27 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.65 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.09 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 34.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts predict that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 3.87 EPS for the current year.

Key Stories Impacting Advanced Micro Devices

Here are the key news stories impacting Advanced Micro Devices this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Flex will manufacture AMD’s Instinct platform in the U.S., strengthening domestic supply, shortening lead times for AI accelerators and supporting customer demand for onshore AI infrastructure. Flex Announces U.S. Manufacturing Collaboration with AMD
• Positive Sentiment: Reports that Meta may take up to a 10% stake as part of a major multi‑year AI chip pact (and related deals tying AMD to Meta and Nutanix) increase the visibility of a large, recurring data‑center revenue stream and could include performance‑linked equity incentives. Confirmation would be a major catalyst. Meta to take potential 10 per cent stake in AMD
• Positive Sentiment: Mizuho raised its price target on AMD, signaling bullish analyst sentiment that can support buying interest and validate management’s AI growth narrative. Mizuho Raises PT on Advanced Micro Devices
• Positive Sentiment: AMD expanded its Ryzen AI 400 and Ryzen AI PRO 400 desktop/mobile portfolio (Copilot+ support), broadening consumer and enterprise AI PC offerings and creating another channel for AI silicon revenue outside data centers. AMD Gives Consumers and Businesses More AI PC Options
• Positive Sentiment: Wind River (Aptiv) announced a strategic collaboration with AMD to deliver a unified Open RAN + AI‑RAN platform, extending AMD’s reach into telco infrastructure and edge AI workloads. This validates AMD’s positioning for telecom AI compute. Wind River Announces Strategic Collaboration with AMD
• Neutral Sentiment: GSMA’s Open Telco AI initiative lists AMD as a compute provider — a positive signal of ecosystem adoption but early stage; commercial impact will depend on operator deployments. GSMA launches Open Telco AI
• Neutral Sentiment: ASML’s roadmap for next‑gen lithography underscores continued industry investment in advanced nodes — broadly positive for chipmakers dependent on TSMC/Intel but not an immediate AMD‑specific catalyst. Exclusive-ASML plots future of chipmaking tools for AI beyond EUV
• Neutral Sentiment: Super Micro launched EPYC‑powered high‑density AI servers, signaling continued demand for AMD EPYC in AI servers but reflecting partner execution rather than a direct AMD product announcement. Super Micro Links High Density AI Servers

Insider Activity

In other Advanced Micro Devices news, CEO Lisa T. Su sold 125,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.14, for a total transaction of $26,892,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 3,277,476 shares in the company, valued at $705,116,186.64. This trade represents a 3.67% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, SVP Ava Hahn sold 2,442 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $234.42, for a total value of $572,453.64. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 16,359 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,834,876.78. This represents a 12.99% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold 271,892 shares of company stock valued at $58,476,908 over the last ninety days. 0.06% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities analysts have issued reports on the company. Sanford C. Bernstein set a $235.00 target price on Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Wednesday, February 4th. Wedbush reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $290.00 price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research report on Wednesday, February 4th. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Tuesday, February 24th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c+)” rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their target price on Advanced Micro Devices from $180.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 5th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have assigned a Buy rating and ten have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $290.53.

Advanced Micro Devices Company Profile

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (NASDAQ: AMD) is a global semiconductor company that designs and sells microprocessors, graphics processors, chipsets and adaptive computing solutions for a broad set of markets. The company’s product portfolio includes consumer and commercial CPUs under the Ryzen and Threadripper brands, data center processors under the EPYC brand, and Radeon graphics processing units for gaming and professional visualization. AMD also offers semi-custom system-on-chip (SoC) products for gaming consoles and other specialized applications, and provides supporting software and platform technologies for OEMs, cloud service providers and end users.

Founded in 1969, AMD has evolved from a supplier of logic chips into a diversified, fabless semiconductor designer.