Resona Asset Management Co. Ltd. Buys 11,724 Shares of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. $AMD

Resona Asset Management Co. Ltd. grew its stake in shares of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMDFree Report) by 2.3% during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 514,346 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock after buying an additional 11,724 shares during the period. Resona Asset Management Co. Ltd.’s holdings in Advanced Micro Devices were worth $103,903,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Joseph Group Capital Management bought a new position in Advanced Micro Devices in the fourth quarter valued at $25,000. Cornerstone Financial Management LLC bought a new stake in Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter worth about $27,000. Sarver Vrooman Wealth Advisors purchased a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices in the 4th quarter worth about $27,000. Basepoint Wealth LLC bought a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the 4th quarter valued at about $30,000. Finally, Wilkerson Advisory Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the 4th quarter valued at about $33,000. 71.34% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Insider Activity at Advanced Micro Devices

In other Advanced Micro Devices news, EVP Mark D. Papermaster sold 6,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, June 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $536.33, for a total value of $3,217,980.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 1,233,687 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $661,663,348.71. This trade represents a 0.48% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Nora Denzel sold 8,626 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $522.00, for a total transaction of $4,502,772.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 87,173 shares in the company, valued at $45,504,306. The trade was a 9.00% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 374,739 shares of company stock worth $161,135,671 over the last ninety days. Insiders own 0.50% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research firms recently weighed in on AMD. Royal Bank Of Canada boosted their target price on Advanced Micro Devices from $325.00 to $400.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. Benchmark increased their price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $325.00 to $485.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. HSBC downgraded shares of Advanced Micro Devices from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and lifted their price target for the stock from $335.00 to $340.00 in a research note on Monday, May 4th. Weiss Ratings raised shares of Advanced Micro Devices from a “hold (c)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Finally, KeyCorp increased their target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $330.00 to $530.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have assigned a Buy rating, twelve have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $453.92.

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Advanced Micro Devices Price Performance

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices stock opened at $517.41 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 2.72 and a quick ratio of 1.96. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $482.72 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $314.89. The stock has a market capitalization of $843.69 billion, a P/E ratio of 169.64, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.52 and a beta of 2.47. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has a one year low of $137.59 and a one year high of $584.73.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMDGet Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May 5th. The semiconductor manufacturer reported $1.37 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.29 by $0.08. The firm had revenue of $10.25 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.90 billion. Advanced Micro Devices had a return on equity of 9.55% and a net margin of 13.37%.The business’s revenue was up 37.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.96 earnings per share. Analysts forecast that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. will post 6.15 EPS for the current year.

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Advanced Micro Devices Company Profile

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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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