Should This Make Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) Investors Worry?

The trading price of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) closed higher on Monday, October 28, and closing at $159.92, 2.36% higher than its previous close.

Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $157.045 and $160.28. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 192.70, while its 5Y monthly beta was 1.695. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $227.30 and a 52-week low of $93.11. Over the past month, the stock has lost -2.70% in value.

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc., whose market valuation is $258.83 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in November. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 0.91 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 3.41 for current year and 5.45 for next year.

Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 6.71B for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 6.56B and highs of 6.8B. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 25.61B.

On the technical side, indicators suggest AMD has a Hold on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a Hold, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently Hold.

Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned AMD a recommendation rating is 33. Out of them, 5 rate it a Hold, while 27 recommend Buy, whereas 1 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.

If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 5.22, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that AMD’s price is currently -0.82% off the SMA20 and 2.98% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 52.54, and weekly volatility stands at 2.31%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 3.02%. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.69, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 5.05. With analysts defining $65-$250 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $184 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 59.35% off the estimated low and -56.33% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if AMD’s share price rises to $184, which is the median consensus price. At that level, AMD’s share price would be -15.06% below current price.

To see how Advanced Micro Devices Inc. stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: AMD stock’s performance was 2.36% in the latest trading, and 70.73% in the past year. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has a P/E ratio of 192.70.

An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) indicates that the 3-month average is 41.58 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 30.99.

Currently, records show that 1.62 billion of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 0.58% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 69.75%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-10-15, stood at 47.41 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 1.34 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 294.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in October were up slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 46.4 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 8.49% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.

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