Westfield Capital Management Co. LP Acquires New Stake in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. $AMD

Westfield Capital Management Co. LP acquired a new stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMDFree Report) in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor acquired 250,455 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock, valued at approximately $53,637,000.

Other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Joseph Group Capital Management bought a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter valued at about $25,000. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. grew its holdings in Advanced Micro Devices by 61.0% during the third quarter. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. now owns 161 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $26,000 after purchasing an additional 61 shares during the period. Sarver Vrooman Wealth Advisors bought a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter valued at about $27,000. Basepoint Wealth LLC bought a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter valued at about $30,000. Finally, Aviso Financial Inc. grew its holdings in Advanced Micro Devices by 400.0% during the third quarter. Aviso Financial Inc. now owns 200 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $32,000 after purchasing an additional 160 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 71.34% of the company’s stock.

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Insider Activity at Advanced Micro Devices

In related news, EVP Paul Darren Grasby sold 24,376 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $444.39, for a total transaction of $10,832,450.64. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 105,222 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $46,759,604.58. This represents a 18.81% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, Director Nora Denzel sold 8,626 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $522.00, for a total value of $4,502,772.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 87,173 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $45,504,306. The trade was a 9.00% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold 339,532 shares of company stock valued at $119,504,341 in the last 90 days. 0.50% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several analysts have issued reports on the company. Susquehanna boosted their price target on Advanced Micro Devices from $375.00 to $450.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Northland Securities reissued a “market perform” rating and set a $260.00 price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Monday, April 27th. TD Cowen boosted their price target on Advanced Micro Devices from $500.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Monday. Piper Sandler reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. Finally, Roth Mkm reissued a “buy” rating and set a $500.00 price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty have issued a Buy rating and thirteen have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $419.86.

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Advanced Micro Devices Stock Performance

NASDAQ AMD opened at $466.38 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $760.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 152.91, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.54 and a beta of 2.50. The company has a quick ratio of 1.96, a current ratio of 2.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $358.36 and a 200-day moving average price of $264.99. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has a twelve month low of $115.06 and a twelve month high of $546.44.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMDGet Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May 5th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.37 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.29 by $0.08. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 9.55% and a net margin of 13.37%.The firm had revenue of $10.25 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.90 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.96 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 37.8% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 6.2 EPS for the current fiscal year.

About Advanced Micro Devices

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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.

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