Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) Trading Up 2.2% – Should You Buy?

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD)’s stock price shot up 2.2% during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $209.88 and last traded at $207.69. 27,012,101 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 13% from the average session volume of 30,977,115 shares. The stock had previously closed at $203.17.

Key Stories Impacting Advanced Micro Devices

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

• Positive Sentiment: Company launched a new Ryzen AI Embedded family (P100, X100) for edge AI — expands addressable market and underscores AMD’s AI roadmap. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Launches a New Family of x86 Chips
• Positive Sentiment: High-profile endorsements and coverage (Jim Cramer and others) are highlighting AMD’s AI accelerator performance, helping sentiment among retail and some institutional investors. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)’s Got Great Performing AI Chips, Says Jim Cramer
• Positive Sentiment: Shares reacted to a leaked shipping manifest that listed a new Ryzen 9 Pro CPU — product pipeline news can lift near-term demand expectations for client CPU sales. AMD Stock Climbs on New Ryzen 9 Pro CPU Leak
• Positive Sentiment: Investor commentary calling it “time to hop in” (buy-side/market commentary) supports demand from momentum/long-only flows. ‘Time to Hop In,’ Says Investor About AMD Stock
• Neutral Sentiment: Coverage notes AMD outperformed the broader market intraday — helpful for sentiment but mainly descriptive of price action rather than a new catalyst. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Outperforms Broader Market: What You Need to Know
• Neutral Sentiment: AMD appears on multiple bullish AI-stock lists and analyst pieces projecting upside from data-center and AI tailwinds — supports longer-term thesis but is diffuse. Here Are My Top 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks for 2026
• Neutral Sentiment: Reported short-interest data is unreliable (shows 0 shares / NaN change), so there’s no clear short-squeeze signal from the published figures.
• Negative Sentiment: Analysis pieces remind investors that AMD’s stock can be highly volatile and has experienced sharp drawdowns in the past — a valuation/volatility risk that could cap near-term upside. Why AMD Stock Can Fall
• Negative Sentiment: Premarket weakness in the broader microchip group tied to macro headlines (DoJ/other news, jobs data) can pull AMD down with the sector despite company-specific positives. NVDA, INTC and AMD Forecast – Microchips Slightly Negative Early on Monday

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

AMD has been the subject of several research analyst reports. Truist Financial reduced their price objective on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $279.00 to $277.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, December 19th. Mizuho upped their price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $275.00 to $285.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 12th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c+)” rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Monday, December 29th. Stifel Nicolaus raised their price objective on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $240.00 to $280.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 5th. Finally, Morgan Stanley restated an “equal weight” rating and issued a $260.00 target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research report on Wednesday, November 12th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have issued a Buy rating and eleven have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $277.06.

Advanced Micro Devices Stock Up 2.2%

The company has a quick ratio of 1.68, a current ratio of 2.31 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. The company has a market capitalization of $338.13 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 102.82, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.86 and a beta of 1.95. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $220.29 and a 200-day moving average price of $193.07.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 4th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.17 by $0.03. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 8.04% and a net margin of 10.32%.The firm had revenue of $9.25 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $8.76 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.92 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 35.6% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 3.87 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Advanced Micro Devices

In other news, EVP Mark D. Papermaster sold 17,108 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $240.12, for a total value of $4,107,972.96. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president owned 1,714,505 shares in the company, valued at $411,686,940.60. This represents a 0.99% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, EVP Forrest Eugene Norrod sold 19,450 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $229.37, for a total value of $4,461,246.50. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 300,348 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $68,890,820.76. This trade represents a 6.08% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold a total of 178,358 shares of company stock valued at $39,229,623 in the last three months. 0.06% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Advanced Micro Devices

A number of large investors have recently made changes to their positions in AMD. ORG Wealth Partners LLC lifted its position in 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 buying an additional 46 shares in the last quarter. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. increased its position in Advanced Micro Devices by 61.0% in the 3rd quarter. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. now owns 161 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock worth $26,000 after purchasing an additional 61 shares during the last quarter. Pinney & Scofield Inc. raised its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 81.0% during the 2nd quarter. Pinney & Scofield Inc. now owns 190 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 85 shares in the last quarter. Dogwood Wealth Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 2,311.1% during the 2nd quarter. Dogwood Wealth Management LLC now owns 217 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $30,000 after buying an additional 208 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Avion Wealth lifted its stake in Advanced Micro Devices by 49.3% in the second quarter. Avion Wealth now owns 218 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $30,000 after acquiring an additional 72 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.34% of the company’s stock.

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.