Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) EVP Jean Hu Sells 15,000 Shares of Stock

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) EVP Jean Hu sold 15,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $474.08, for a total transaction of $7,111,200.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 160,979 shares in the company, valued at approximately $76,316,924.32. This trade represents a 8.52% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Advanced Micro Devices Stock Performance

Shares of AMD stock opened at $476.67 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.91, a current ratio of 2.61 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The business has a 50 day moving average of $507.14 and a two-hundred day moving average of $383.86. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has a 52 week low of $149.22 and a 52 week high of $584.73. The company has a market cap of $778.15 billion, a P/E ratio of 122.54 and a beta of 2.48.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 4th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.66 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.62 by $0.04. The business had revenue of $11.54 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $11.31 billion. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 12.30% and a net margin of 15.58%.The business’s quarterly revenue was up 50.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.48 EPS. As a group, analysts anticipate that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 6.44 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities research analysts have commented on AMD shares. Benchmark raised their price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $485.00 to $685.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 22nd. Mizuho increased their price objective on Advanced Micro Devices from $615.00 to $625.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, July 27th. Sanford C. Bernstein restated an “outperform” rating and issued a $650.00 target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research report on Wednesday, August 5th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their target price on Advanced Micro Devices from $385.00 to $550.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 5th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC upgraded Advanced Micro Devices to a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have given a Buy rating, nine have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $553.72.

Institutional Trading of Advanced Micro Devices

Several institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Joseph Group Capital Management bought a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the 4th quarter valued at about $25,000. Sarver Vrooman Wealth Advisors bought a new stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices in the 4th quarter worth approximately $27,000. Cornerstone Financial Management LLC acquired a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Basepoint Wealth LLC acquired a new position in Advanced Micro Devices in the fourth quarter worth approximately $30,000. Finally, JNBA Financial Advisors grew its position in Advanced Micro Devices by 142.9% in the second quarter. JNBA Financial Advisors now owns 51 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock worth $30,000 after buying an additional 30 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.34% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about Advanced Micro Devices

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

• Positive Sentiment: AI growth outlook remains robust: AMD’s second-quarter revenue increased 50% year over year to approximately $11.5 billion, with data-center revenue more than doubling to $6.7 billion. Management’s roughly $13 billion third-quarter revenue outlook and 56% gross-margin forecast support expectations for continued momentum. AMD growth outlook
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst upgrade and product catalysts: Raymond James upgraded AMD, citing a potential $201 billion revenue opportunity by 2030 from agentic AI. AMD is also preparing the MI455X accelerator and Helios rack system, while ROCm 10, UCIe connectivity and new secure-AI initiatives could strengthen its ecosystem. Raymond James AMD upgrade
• Positive Sentiment: Enterprise AI positioning: AMD’s equity investment and joint development agreement with Nutanix could help it offer more complete inference and agentic-AI systems as an open alternative to Nvidia’s platform. AMD and Nutanix partnership
• Neutral Sentiment: Anthropic’s mixed chip strategy: Anthropic reportedly previously committed substantial spending involving AMD but later signed a six-year, $45 billion lease for Nvidia-powered capacity. The news suggests AMD remains relevant, but Nvidia may be the preferred provider for the largest AI workloads. Anthropic AMD and Nvidia spending
• Negative Sentiment: Insider and fund selling: EVP Forrest Norrod sold about $7.9 million of AMD stock and EVP Jean Hu sold approximately $7.1 million, both under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans. ARK Invest also sold about $18.2 million of AMD while rotating into Broadcom and Cerebras, weighing on sentiment after AMD’s substantial rally. AMD insider sale filing
• Negative Sentiment: Competition and risk factors: Nvidia’s blowout results emphasized AMD’s weaker margins and software ecosystem, while AMD’s elevated valuation, potential semiconductor tariffs, export restrictions and rising memory costs increase the execution risk required to sustain its growth expectations. Nvidia versus AMD investment comparison

About Advanced Micro Devices

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.