AMD's Stock Faces Challenges Amid AI Growth and Market Concerns
Loop Capital has reaffirmed its buy rating on AMD, highlighting the company's potential to grow revenue even with modest market share in data centers, continued leadership in server chips, and ambitions to lift earnings per share above $20 within five years. Despite recent slow growth, AMD's investments in AI chips, including the MI300 GPU line and open-source AI stack ROcm 7, are beginning to show results, with third-quarter revenue up 36% year-over-year to $9.2 billion and adjusted earnings per share rising 30%. The company's ability to offer a better cost-to-performance ratio than competitors like Nvidia and Intel is expanding its market share, especially in AI inference tasks. Analysts estimate AMD's EBITDA could expand 3.3 times if certain targets are met, making current stock pullbacks an attractive buying opportunity. However, AMD's stock has recently declined nearly 23% in November, marking its worst month in over three years, due to concerns over rising interest rates, increasing memory prices, and intensified competition from Google in AI. AMD CEO Lisa Su projects the data center market to reach $1 trillion by 2030, but investors remain cautious amid macroeconomic pressures and competitive dynamics in AI and chip markets.
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