Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) CEO Lisa Su Sells 85,000 Shares of Stock

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) CEO Lisa Su sold 85,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $198.77, for a total value of $16,895,450.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 3,146,006 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $625,331,612.62. The trade was a 2.63% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this link.

Advanced Micro Devices Trading Up 1.6%

AMD opened at $196.58 on Tuesday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $215.67 and its two-hundred day moving average is $210.63. The company has a market capitalization of $320.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 74.18, a PEG ratio of 0.73 and a beta of 1.98. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has a 52 week low of $76.48 and a 52 week high of $267.08. The company has a quick ratio of 2.01, a current ratio of 2.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, February 3rd. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.53 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.32 by $0.21. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 8.84% and a net margin of 12.52%.The business had revenue of $10.27 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.65 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.09 EPS. Advanced Micro Devices’s revenue was up 34.1% on a year-over-year basis. Analysts forecast that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 3.87 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Trading of Advanced Micro Devices

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Joseph Group Capital Management purchased a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices in the fourth quarter valued at about $25,000. Cornerstone Financial Management LLC acquired a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices in the fourth quarter worth about $27,000. Sarver Vrooman Wealth Advisors purchased a new stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter worth about $27,000. Basepoint Wealth LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter worth about $30,000. Finally, Wilkerson Advisory Group LLC acquired a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter valued at about $33,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.34% of the company’s stock.

More Advanced Micro Devices News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Celestica partnership to commercialize “Helios” rack-scale AI platform should expand AMD’s route to market for data‑center GPUs and strengthen its AI-infrastructure footprint. Celestica and AMD Announce Collaboration
• Positive Sentiment: Multi‑year IP license and settlement with Adeia removes legal overhang and gives AMD access to additional semiconductor IP — a clearance that reduces legal risk and could accelerate product development. AMD Ties Up With Adeia
• Positive Sentiment: U.S. export-policy reversal eases restrictions on advanced AI accelerator sales overseas, widening AMD’s addressable market for Instinct GPUs and easing regulatory uncertainty for data‑center ramp. US Export Reversal Clears Path
• Positive Sentiment: Expanded manufacturing/assembly ties (Flex, and Celestica activity) support supply scaling for AMD Instinct platforms and reduce execution risk on large cloud/customer orders. Assessing Flex Valuation After Expanded AMD Partnership
• Positive Sentiment: Multiple analysts remain bullish on AMD’s AI growth path and have reiterated favorable ratings/targets, providing support for the stock amid ongoing AI demand optimism. Analysts Stay Bullish on AI Demand
• Neutral Sentiment: Early reports that RDNA 5 GPUs show improved performance vs. prior generations could help AMD in graphics and inference workloads, but impact depends on final benchmarks and partner design wins. RDNA 5 GPUs May Even the Playing Field
• Neutral Sentiment: Reported short interest data shows no meaningful change (no indication of a large short squeeze or build), so short‑interest dynamics are not a current driver.
• Negative Sentiment: CEO Lisa Su sold 85,000 shares (~$16.9M at reported average price), part of a broader pattern of insider selling that some investors view as a near‑term headwind for sentiment. SEC filing: Insider Sale SEC Filing
• Negative Sentiment: Some Wall Street voices (Goldman, D.A. Davidson) and macro factors (oil‑supply driven market volatility) have flagged near‑term risks and estimate caution, which could pressure the stock if growth expectations are trimmed. Analyst Caution Oil Supply Disruptions and Chip Stocks

Analyst Ratings Changes

AMD has been the subject of a number of research reports. Rosenblatt Securities reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $300.00 price objective on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research note on Wednesday, February 4th. DA Davidson upgraded shares of Advanced Micro Devices to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, February 13th. Evercore reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $358.00 price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research report on Tuesday, February 24th. Piper Sandler reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company reissued an “overweight” rating and set a $345.00 price objective on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Friday, January 30th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have assigned a Buy rating and ten have issued a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $290.53.

Advanced Micro Devices Company Profile

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.