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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer shared his thoughts on as he discussed Big Tech’s AI spending. Cramer noted how the analyst downgrade of the stock was wrong, as he stated:
In November, she (CEO, Lisa Su) thought that her CPU market would grow at about an 18% clip. Turns out, here we are in May, it’s growing at 35%. That’s AMD’s core business. So, that stock’s not going to want to, they’re not going to take weeks or months for AMD stock to go higher. It’s going to happen now. Hey, speaking of AMD, which shot up more than 18% today, there was a piece of research that came out the day before this extraordinary quarter, a downgrade from a Buy to a Hold by a prominent investment house. That’s right, Buy to Hold, AMD.
I said on air, I told you I thought it was fanciful and would be wrong. In the meantime, I’m sure it scared a lot of people out of the stock because it came out right on the eve of the quarter. When an analyst downgrades right before earnings, people assume they must know something. This time, that was very wrong. Very first sentence in the piece was about as wrong as you can get, “First quarter results and second quarter guidance to be in line with our estimates and consensus, as possible upside is limited.”
Oh man… In fact, AMD blew away the estimates, which is why the stock jumped so high. Their next point, 2026 server CPU upside is capped due to foundry capacity constraints. Okay, I asked CEO Lisa Su directly about this issue. She told me it’s simply not a problem, stop worrying about it. I felt stupid even asking. Finally, the piece suggested that AMD had already been rerated, meaning that the big buyers have already pushed the stock up aggressively, so there isn’t enough juice left to keep it running. Once again, dead wrong. Throughout this entire magnificent rally in AMD and other stocks that are part of the AI revolution, you had to do the opposite of what this analyst said.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) designs and manufactures processors, graphics cards, and AI chips for computers, servers, and gaming systems. Some of the company’s products include Ryzen and Radeon.
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