Wedbush Research Analysts Cut Earnings Estimates for AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) – Research analysts at Wedbush cut their Q2 2025 EPS estimates for shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, April 23rd. Wedbush analyst M. Bryson now anticipates that the semiconductor manufacturer will post earnings of $0.84 per share for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $0.96. Wedbush has a “Outperform” rating and a $115.00 price objective on the stock. The consensus estimate for Advanced Micro Devices’ current full-year earnings is $3.87 per share. Wedbush also issued estimates for Advanced Micro Devices’ Q3 2025 earnings at $0.93 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $1.12 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $5.48 EPS.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 4th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.07. Advanced Micro Devices had a net margin of 6.36% and a return on equity of 7.42%.

A number of other research firms have also commented on AMD. Piper Sandler reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research report on Wednesday, February 19th. TD Cowen decreased their target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $135.00 to $110.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, April 9th. Sanford C. Bernstein dropped their price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $125.00 to $95.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday. StockNews.com downgraded shares of Advanced Micro Devices from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Wednesday, March 26th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group cut shares of Advanced Micro Devices from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and cut their price target for the company from $175.00 to $129.00 in a research report on Friday, January 10th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have assigned a hold rating, seventeen have issued a buy rating and three have issued a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $140.57.

Advanced Micro Devices Trading Up 4.5 %

NASDAQ AMD opened at $94.47 on Thursday. Advanced Micro Devices has a twelve month low of $76.48 and a twelve month high of $187.28. The business’s fifty day moving average is $99.07 and its 200 day moving average is $121.42. The company has a quick ratio of 1.83, a current ratio of 2.62 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The company has a market cap of $152.69 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 95.43, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.11 and a beta of 1.89.

Institutional Trading of Advanced Micro Devices

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of AMD. Howard Capital Management Group LLC boosted its stake in Advanced Micro Devices by 21.6% during the 3rd quarter. Howard Capital Management Group LLC now owns 1,827 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $300,000 after purchasing an additional 324 shares during the last quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 30.2% during the third quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. now owns 2,537,968 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $416,430,000 after buying an additional 588,595 shares during the last quarter. Advisory Resource Group boosted its position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 19.3% during the third quarter. Advisory Resource Group now owns 7,920 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $1,300,000 after buying an additional 1,282 shares during the last quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. raised its position in Advanced Micro Devices by 1.9% in the 3rd quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. now owns 5,407 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock worth $815,000 after buying an additional 103 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Anchor Investment Management LLC lifted its stake in Advanced Micro Devices by 29.6% during the 3rd quarter. Anchor Investment Management LLC now owns 7,673 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $1,259,000 after acquiring an additional 1,754 shares during the period. 71.34% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Advanced Micro Devices news, EVP Philip Guido bought 4,645 shares of Advanced Micro Devices stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 7th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of $107.56 per share, with a total value of $499,616.20. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 33,522 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,605,626.32. This represents a 16.09 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The acquisition was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, EVP Mark D. Papermaster sold 17,500 shares of Advanced Micro Devices stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $95.47, for a total value of $1,670,725.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 1,713,710 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $163,607,893.70. This represents a 1.01 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders own 0.06% of the company’s stock.

Advanced Micro Devices Company Profile

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.