American Financial Advisors LLC Acquires Shares of 1,716 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. $AMD

Key Points

• American Financial Advisors LLC invested approximately $244,000 in Advanced Micro Devices, acquiring 1,716 shares during the 2nd quarter.
• Advanced Micro Devices reported earnings of $0.48 EPS for the last quarter, below the analysts' expectation of $0.54, but its revenue increased by 31.7% year-over-year.
• Currently, 71.34% of AMD's stock is owned by institutional investors, reflecting strong institutional interest in the semiconductor company.

American Financial Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD - Free Report) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund purchased 1,716 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock, valued at approximately $244,000.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Mpwm Advisory Solutions LLC acquired a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices in the 4th quarter valued at about $30,000. Farmers & Merchants Trust Co of Chambersburg PA lifted its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 277.8% in the 1st quarter. Farmers & Merchants Trust Co of Chambersburg PA now owns 272 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $28,000 after purchasing an additional 200 shares during the period. American Capital Advisory LLC lifted its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 90.3% in the 1st quarter. American Capital Advisory LLC now owns 274 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $28,000 after purchasing an additional 130 shares during the period. Investors Research Corp lifted its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 117.9% in the 1st quarter. Investors Research Corp now owns 305 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares during the period. Finally, Kozak & Associates Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 67.6% in the 1st quarter. Kozak & Associates Inc. now owns 305 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock valued at $29,000 after purchasing an additional 123 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 71.34% of the company's stock.

Advanced Micro Devices Stock Down 0.3%

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices stock traded down $0.53 on Friday, hitting $157.39. The company had a trading volume of 55,344,690 shares, compared to its average volume of 46,751,016. The stock has a market capitalization of $255.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 90.45, a P/E/G ratio of 1.88 and a beta of 1.92. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has a 1 year low of $76.48 and a 1 year high of $186.65. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $164.80 and a 200-day moving average of $128.75. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 1.81 and a current ratio of 2.49.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August 5th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.54 by ($0.06). The company had revenue of $7.69 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $7.41 billion. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 7.54% and a net margin of 9.57%.The business's revenue for the quarter was up 31.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.69 earnings per share. Advanced Micro Devices has set its Q3 2025 guidance at EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 3.87 earnings per share for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

AMD has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Raymond James Financial boosted their price objective on Advanced Micro Devices from $120.00 to $200.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 6th. The Goldman Sachs Group raised Advanced Micro Devices to a "hold" rating and set a $140.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Thursday, July 10th. Piper Sandler upped their target price on Advanced Micro Devices from $140.00 to $190.00 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on Advanced Micro Devices from $120.00 to $180.00 and gave the stock a "neutral" rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 6th. Finally, Melius Research raised Advanced Micro Devices from a "hold" rating to a "strong-buy" rating and upped their target price for the stock from $110.00 to $175.00 in a research report on Monday, June 23rd. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-one have assigned a Buy rating, thirteen have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $180.88.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, EVP Mark D. Papermaster sold 17,998 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, July 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $155.03, for a total transaction of $2,790,229.94. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 1,713,710 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $265,676,461.30. This trade represents a 1.04% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CEO Lisa T. Su sold 225,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $163.97, for a total value of $36,893,250.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 3,359,748 shares of the company's stock, valued at $550,897,879.56. The trade was a 6.28% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 270,198 shares of company stock valued at $44,183,576. Insiders own 0.06% of the company's stock.

About Advanced Micro Devices

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.