Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $0.19 EPS

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) issued its earnings results on Tuesday. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $0.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.07 by ($0.19), Zacks reports. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 6.62% and a net margin of 7.52%. Advanced Micro Devices updated its Q1 2025 guidance to EPS.

Advanced Micro Devices Stock Down 6.3 %

Shares of AMD opened at $112.01 on Thursday. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $125.02 and a 200-day moving average price of $140.59. The company has a current ratio of 2.50, a quick ratio of 1.78 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The firm has a market capitalization of $181.77 billion, a P/E ratio of 100.91, a P/E/G ratio of 1.03 and a beta of 1.66. Advanced Micro Devices has a 12-month low of $106.50 and a 12-month high of $227.30.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Citigroup decreased their price target on Advanced Micro Devices from $200.00 to $175.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, January 21st. HSBC reiterated a “reduce” rating and issued a $110.00 price target (down from $200.00) on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research note on Wednesday, January 8th. Evercore ISI raised their target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $193.00 to $198.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. Melius Research reissued a “hold” rating and issued a $129.00 price objective (down previously from $160.00) on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Tuesday, January 28th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated an “overweight” rating and issued a $180.00 price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research report on Wednesday, October 30th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have assigned a hold rating, twenty have issued a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $161.30.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, CEO Lisa T. Su sold 76,496 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $142.66, for a total value of $10,912,919.36. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 3,566,762 shares in the company, valued at approximately $508,834,266.92. The trade was a 2.10 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 0.65% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

About Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. It operates through Data Center, Client, Gaming, and Embedded segments. The company offers x86 microprocessors and graphics processing units (GPUs) as an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, 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 unites, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and adaptive SoC products.