How to buy Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stocks

Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductors business based in the US. Advanced Micro Devices shares (AMD) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

Its last market close was $119.21 – a decrease of 6.07% over the previous week. Advanced Micro Devices employs 26,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $24.3 billion.

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Latest updates for Advanced Micro Devices

November 14, 2024: AMD has announced it plans to reduce its workforce by 4%, which is about 1,000 employees.

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Advanced Micro Devices stock price (NASDAQ: AMD)

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Advanced Micro Devices stocks at a glance

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Information last updated 2024-12-19.

Latest market close	$119.21
52-week range	$120.43 - $227.30
50-day moving average more info button	$145.61
200-day moving average more info button	$157.00
Wall St. target price	$184.09
PE ratio more info button	107.4425
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$1.13

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Advanced Micro Devices price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $118.88 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-6.33%
1 month (2024-11-21)	-13.54%
3 months (2024-09-20)	-23.77%
6 months (2024-06-21)	-26.27%

1 year (2023-12-21)	-15.03%
2 years (2022-12-21)	75.65%
3 years (2021-12-21)	144.25
5 years (2019-12-20)	169.26%

Is Advanced Micro Devices stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Advanced Micro Devices stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Advanced Micro Devices's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Advanced Micro Devices's P/E ratio

Advanced Micro Devices's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 107x. In other words, Advanced Micro Devices shares trade at around 107x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the stock or simply that they're over-valued.

Advanced Micro Devices's PEG ratio

Advanced Micro Devices's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.314. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Advanced Micro Devices's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Advanced Micro Devices's EBITDA

Advanced Micro Devices's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $4.5 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Advanced Micro Devices's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Advanced Micro Devices financials

Revenue TTM	$24.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	10.62%
Gross profit TTM	$12.1 billion
Return on assets TTM	1.25%
Return on equity TTM	3.26%
Profit margin	7.52%
Book value	$35.11
Market Capitalization more info button	$197 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Advanced Micro Devices stock dividends

We're not expecting Advanced Micro Devices to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Advanced Micro Devices's stocks ever split?

Advanced Micro Devices's stocks were split on a 2:1 basis on 21 August 2000 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Advanced Micro Devices stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower stock price could have impacted the market appetite for Advanced Micro Devices stocks, which in turn could have impacted Advanced Micro Devices's stock price.

Advanced Micro Devices stock price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Advanced Micro Devices's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $120.43 up to $227.3. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."

Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Advanced Micro Devices's is 1.706. This would suggest that Advanced Micro Devices's stocks are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Advanced Micro Devices overview

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. It provides processors under the AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen PRO, Ryzen Threadripper, Ryzen Threadripper PRO, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon PRO, and AMD PRO A-Series brand names; graphics under the AMD Radeon graphics and AMD Embedded Radeon graphics; and professional graphics under the AMD Radeon Pro graphics brand name. In addition, the company offers data center graphics under the Radeon Instinct and Radeon PRO V-series brands, as well as servers under the AMD Instinct accelerators brand; server microprocessors under the AMD EPYC brands; low power solutions under the AMD Athlon, AMD Geode, AMD Ryzen, AMD EPYC, AMD R-Series, and G-Series brands; FPGA products under the Virtex-6, Virtex-7, Virtex UltraScale+, Kintex-7, Kintex UltraScale, Kintex UltraScale+, Artix-7, Artix UltraScale+, Spartan-6, and Spartan-7 brands; adaptive SOCs under the Zynq-7000, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs, Versal HBM, Versal Premium, Versal Prime, Versal AI Core, Versal AI Edge, Vitis, and Vivado brands; and compute and network acceleration board products under the Alveo brand. It serves original equipment and design manufacturers, public cloud service providers, system integrators, independent distributors, and add-in-board manufacturers through its direct sales force, and sales representatives.

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Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Advanced Micro Devices is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 0.493% of Advanced Micro Devices stocks are held by insiders and 72.058% by institutions. How many people work for Advanced Micro Devices?
Latest data suggests 26,000 work at Advanced Micro Devices. When does the fiscal year end for Advanced Micro Devices?
Advanced Micro Devices's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Advanced Micro Devices based?
Advanced Micro Devices's address is: 2485 Augustine Drive, Santa Clara, CA, United States, 95054 What is Advanced Micro Devices's ISIN number?
Advanced Micro Devices's international securities identification number is: US0079031078 What is Advanced Micro Devices's CUSIP number?
Advanced Micro Devices's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 007903107

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