Wealth High Governance Capital Ltda Invests $16.03 Million in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. $AMD

Wealth High Governance Capital Ltda acquired a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD - Free Report) in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm acquired 27,602 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer's stock, valued at approximately $16,034,000. Advanced Micro Devices makes up about 4.8% of Wealth High Governance Capital Ltda's portfolio, making the stock its 5th largest position.

Other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Joseph Group Capital Management acquired a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices in the fourth quarter worth approximately $25,000. Sarver Vrooman Wealth Advisors acquired a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the 4th quarter valued at $27,000. Cornerstone Financial Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the 4th quarter valued at $27,000. Basepoint Wealth LLC bought a new stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices in the 4th quarter worth $30,000. Finally, Graney & King LLC bought a new stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices in the 1st quarter worth $31,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.34% of the company's stock.

Advanced Micro Devices Price Performance

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

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, August 4th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.66 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.62 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $11.54 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $11.31 billion. Advanced Micro Devices had a net margin of 15.58% and a return on equity of 12.30%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 50.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.48 earnings per share. On average, analysts predict that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 6.44 EPS for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, EVP Mark D. Papermaster sold 28,811 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $471.87, for a total transaction of $13,595,046.57. Following the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 1,261,461 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $595,245,602.07. The trade was a 2.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, SVP Ava Hahn sold 2,993 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, August 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $488.69, for a total transaction of $1,462,649.17. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president owned 26,623 shares in the company, valued at approximately $13,010,393.87. This 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. Insiders have sold a total of 241,203 shares of company stock valued at $114,011,942 over the last quarter. 0.50% of the stock is owned by insiders.

More Advanced Micro Devices News

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts recently weighed in on the company. TD Cowen reaffirmed a "buy" rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research note on Wednesday, August 5th. BTIG Research upgraded shares of Advanced Micro Devices to a "buy" rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. Wolfe Research set a $450.00 price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Monday, June 15th. Barclays lowered shares of Advanced Micro Devices from an "overweight" rating to an "underweight" rating in a research report on Friday, June 12th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group set a $650.00 price objective on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research note on Wednesday, August 5th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have issued a Buy rating, nine have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Advanced Micro Devices presently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $553.72.

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.

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