Artificial-intelligence-focused chip makers are expected to grow briskly. But artificial intelligence requires servers, memory, and more -- so consider other stocks, too.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock price has remained in a deep bear market this year as concerns about the artificial intelligence (AI) industry continued. It has dropped by over 35% from its highest point this year, giving it a market cap of over $246 billion.
Chip stocks have been on a rather rocky ride over the past few weeks, as a range of headwinds have hit this sector hard.
Technology executives remained bullish on AI growth at a major industry conference. Analysts also stayed bullish on AI, especially for Arm and AMD.
The AI supercycle is fueling a heated competition between Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMD and Nvidia Corp NVDA, with both tech giants racing to capture the growing AI market.
In the latest trading session, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) closed at $150.77, marking a +0.61% move from the previous day.
UBS analysts have unveiled their top stock picks for the remainder of 2024 across the Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) sectors. Broad themes across the US technology, media, and telecom sectors in 2024 center on market competition, AI-driven growth, and cost optimization.
Nvidia's lead in AI inference workloads is shrinking as AMD has shown parity with a Nvidia GPU on AI inference workloads for the first time. Nvidia remains a Buy due to its engineering expertise, high margins, market positioning, and CUDA software moat, despite AMD's progress. AMD presents a strong long-term investment with an attractive risk-reward profile as it continues to close the gap with Nvidia in the GPU accelerator market.
AMD has performed several stock splits, most recently in 2000. A single $11 share from AMD's IPO would now be 27 shares, worth roughly $3,800.
Cathie Wood bought shares of AMD, DraftKings, and Tempus AI on Tuesday. AMD is growing its data center and AI chips business, but it's struggling badly in other segments.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is positioned as a challenger to Nvidia in the data center AI chip market, with a promising long-term growth outlook. Q2 results showed 115% YoY growth in data center revenue, while other segments faced headwinds, impacting overall growth. AMD's Q3 guidance indicates 16% YoY revenue growth, driven by AI and stabilization in gaming and embedded segments.