Compass Financial Management LLC Makes New Investment in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. $AMD

Compass Financial Management LLC purchased a new position in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) during the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund purchased 8,258 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock, valued at approximately $4,568,000.

A number of other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in AMD. Luminist Capital LLC bought a new position in Advanced Micro Devices in the second quarter valued at $46,000. BOK Financial Private Wealth Inc. purchased a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices during the second quarter valued at about $53,000. Toews Corp ADV bought a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices during the second quarter worth about $66,000. Joseph Group Capital Management bought a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter worth about $25,000. Finally, Cornerstone Financial Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices in the 4th quarter worth about $27,000. 71.34% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Advanced Micro Devices News Roundup

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

• Positive Sentiment: AI growth outlook remains robust: AMD’s second-quarter revenue increased 50% year over year to approximately $11.5 billion, with data-center revenue more than doubling to $6.7 billion. Management’s roughly $13 billion third-quarter revenue outlook and 56% gross-margin forecast support expectations for continued momentum. AMD growth outlook
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst upgrade and product catalysts: Raymond James upgraded AMD, citing a potential $201 billion revenue opportunity by 2030 from agentic AI. AMD is also preparing the MI455X accelerator and Helios rack system, while ROCm 10, UCIe connectivity and new secure-AI initiatives could strengthen its ecosystem. Raymond James AMD upgrade
• Positive Sentiment: Enterprise AI positioning: AMD’s equity investment and joint development agreement with Nutanix could help it offer more complete inference and agentic-AI systems as an open alternative to Nvidia’s platform. AMD and Nutanix partnership
• Neutral Sentiment: Anthropic’s mixed chip strategy: Anthropic reportedly previously committed substantial spending involving AMD but later signed a six-year, $45 billion lease for Nvidia-powered capacity. The news suggests AMD remains relevant, but Nvidia may be the preferred provider for the largest AI workloads. Anthropic AMD and Nvidia spending
• Negative Sentiment: Insider and fund selling: EVP Forrest Norrod sold about $7.9 million of AMD stock and EVP Jean Hu sold approximately $7.1 million, both under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans. ARK Invest also sold about $18.2 million of AMD while rotating into Broadcom and Cerebras, weighing on sentiment after AMD’s substantial rally. AMD insider sale filing
• Negative Sentiment: Competition and risk factors: Nvidia’s blowout results emphasized AMD’s weaker margins and software ecosystem, while AMD’s elevated valuation, potential semiconductor tariffs, export restrictions and rising memory costs increase the execution risk required to sustain its growth expectations. Nvidia versus AMD investment comparison

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have recently commented on the company. Wolfe Research set a $450.00 price objective on Advanced Micro Devices and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, June 15th. Benchmark boosted their target price on Advanced Micro Devices from $485.00 to $685.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 22nd. Stifel Nicolaus upped their target price on Advanced Micro Devices from $450.00 to $635.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, July 10th. William Blair reiterated a “market perform” rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research report on Friday, July 24th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c+)” rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research note on Monday, August 3rd. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have given a Buy rating, nine have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $553.72.

Advanced Micro Devices Trading Down 0.9%

NASDAQ AMD opened at $476.67 on Friday. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has a 1-year low of $149.22 and a 1-year high of $584.73. The company has a current ratio of 2.61, a quick ratio of 1.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $507.14 and a 200-day moving average of $383.86. The firm has a market cap of $778.15 billion, a PE ratio of 122.54 and a beta of 2.48.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, August 4th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.66 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.62 by $0.04. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 12.30% and a net margin of 15.58%.The company had revenue of $11.54 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $11.31 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.48 EPS. Advanced Micro Devices’s quarterly revenue was up 50.1% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 6.44 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity

In other news, CEO Lisa T. Su sold 15,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, August 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $480.94, for a total transaction of $7,214,100.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 3,102,156 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,491,950,906.64. This represents a 0.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, SVP Ava Hahn sold 2,993 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $488.69, for a total transaction of $1,462,649.17. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president directly owned 26,623 shares in the company, valued at approximately $13,010,393.87. This trade represents a 10.11% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 241,203 shares of company stock valued at $114,011,942. Corporate insiders own 0.50% 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.