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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. $AMD Stake Trimmed by Sierra Summit Advisors LLC

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Key Points

  • Sierra Summit Advisors trimmed its AMD stake by 20.6% in the fourth quarter, though institutional ownership remains high at 71.34% of the company’s shares.
  • AMD insiders have also been selling, including CEO Lisa Su and EVP Paul Darren Grasby; the company says insiders sold a total of 309,598 shares worth about $105.6 million over the last three months.
  • Wall Street sentiment is still mostly positive, with AMD reporting better-than-expected Q1 earnings and revenue and analysts maintaining a Moderate Buy rating with an average price target of $410.
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Sierra Summit Advisors LLC lessened its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD - Free Report) by 20.6% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 5,278 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock after selling 1,367 shares during the quarter. Sierra Summit Advisors LLC's holdings in Advanced Micro Devices were worth $1,130,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Impax Asset Management Group plc lifted its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 326.5% during the 3rd quarter. Impax Asset Management Group plc now owns 52,068 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $8,424,000 after buying an additional 39,861 shares during the last quarter. Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 127.6% during the 3rd quarter. Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC now owns 72,602 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $11,746,000 after buying an additional 40,708 shares during the last quarter. Wedbush Securities Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 7.8% during the 3rd quarter. Wedbush Securities Inc. now owns 84,256 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $13,632,000 after buying an additional 6,095 shares during the last quarter. WealthPlan Investment Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 338.5% during the 4th quarter. WealthPlan Investment Management LLC now owns 6,157 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $1,319,000 after buying an additional 4,753 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Highline Wealth Partners LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 4,891.6% during the 4th quarter. Highline Wealth Partners LLC now owns 8,286 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $1,775,000 after buying an additional 8,120 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 71.34% of the company's stock.

Insider Transactions at Advanced Micro Devices

In other news, EVP Paul Darren Grasby sold 24,376 shares of the company's 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 in the company, valued at $46,759,604.58. The trade was a 18.81% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CEO Lisa T. Su sold 125,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $445.51, for a total value of $55,688,750.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 3,021,899 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $1,346,286,223.49. This trade represents a 3.97% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold a total of 309,598 shares of company stock worth $105,644,316 over the last three months. 0.50% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

AMD has been the subject of several research reports. Truist Financial set a $478.00 price target on Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price target on Advanced Micro Devices from $270.00 to $385.00 and gave the company a "neutral" rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Benchmark lifted their price target on Advanced Micro Devices from $325.00 to $485.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Sanford C. Bernstein upgraded Advanced Micro Devices from a "market perform" rating to an "outperform" rating and boosted their target price for the stock from $265.00 to $525.00 in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Finally, Northland Securities restated a "market perform" rating and issued a $260.00 target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Monday, April 27th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty have assigned a Buy rating and twelve have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Advanced Micro Devices currently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $410.00.

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Key Headlines Impacting Advanced Micro Devices

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Advanced Micro Devices Stock Up 8.1%

AMD opened at $447.58 on Thursday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $287.25 and a 200 day moving average price of $243.95. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has a twelve month low of $107.67 and a twelve month high of $469.21. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 1.96 and a current ratio of 2.72. The firm has a market cap of $729.82 billion, a P/E ratio of 146.75, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.23 and a beta of 2.40.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, May 5th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.37 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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 period in the previous year, the company earned $0.96 EPS. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 37.8% on a year-over-year basis. Research analysts forecast that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 6.2 EPS for the current year.

Advanced Micro Devices Profile

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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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