BN · rank #3 · 2026-07-21
AMD
NASDAQ · $821.12B (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Composite score Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank. | 0.87 |
|---|---|
| Forward revenue growth Consensus forward revenue growth. | +57.4% |
| Forward net margin Consensus forward net margin. | +15.4% |
| Net margin TTM Trailing twelve month net margin. | +13.4% |
| Margin expansion Forward minus trailing net margin (percentage points). | +2.0% |
| Forward PEG Forward P/E to growth. Below 1 is cheap for the growth. | 1.16 |
| Debt / FCF Net debt relative to free cash flow. Lower is safer. | 0.45× |
| Analyst upside Spread between the consensus 12m target and the current price. | +7.6% |
| Last EPS surprise Most recent reported EPS versus consensus. | +6% |
| Market cap (USD) | $821.12B |
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Summary
AMD is a semiconductor company generating accelerating revenue growth from Data Center AI infrastructure via EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs, underpinned by proprietary chiplet architectures including 3D V-Cache and Infinity Fabric interconnect.
Rationale
AMD's 57% forward revenue growth, record FCF, low debt-to-FCF of 0.45x, and fwd PEG of 1.16 validate the bottleneck-solver thesis — its chiplet and advanced packaging IP directly addresses compute scaling and memory bandwidth constraints that are structural, not cyclical, bottlenecks in AI infrastructure buildout.
Material risks
- 1Major hyperscaler customers (Google TPUs, AWS Trainium, Microsoft Maia) are aggressively developing custom AI silicon in-house, which directly threatens AMD's GPU accelerator TAM and could erode the sole-source positioning the bottleneck-solver thesis depends on.
- 2Export control tightening on high-performance compute chips to China and other restricted markets could materially impair Data Center segment revenue, which is now the single dominant earnings driver with limited near-term offset from Gaming or Embedded.
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