BN · rank #3 · 2026-09-07
AMD
NASDAQ · $779.62B (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Composite score Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank. | 1.09 |
|---|---|
| Forward revenue growth Consensus forward revenue growth. | +72.0% |
| Forward net margin Consensus forward net margin. | +18.5% |
| Net margin TTM Trailing twelve month net margin. | +15.6% |
| Margin expansion Forward minus trailing net margin (percentage points). | +2.9% |
| Forward PEG Forward P/E to growth. Below 1 is cheap for the growth. | 0.47 |
| Debt / FCF Net debt relative to free cash flow. Lower is safer. | 0.51× |
| Analyst upside Spread between the consensus 12m target and the current price. | +28.5% |
| Last EPS surprise Most recent reported EPS versus consensus. | +23% |
| Market cap (USD) | $779.62B |
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Summary
AMD designs high-performance CPUs and AI accelerators, with its Instinct MI400 series and Helios rack-scale platform now anchoring a data center AI growth cycle backed by named multi-year commitments from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle.
Rationale
The bottleneck-solver thesis is directly reinforced — MI400's 432GB HBM4 and 19.6TB/s bandwidth attack the memory-capacity and interconnect bottlenecks in frontier AI training, and named multi-year hyperscaler orders provide the revenue visibility that distinguishes a structural moat play from pure sentiment rotation.
Material risks
- 1NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem lock-in and hyperscalers' accelerating in-house ASIC programs (Google TPU, Amazon Trainium, Microsoft Maia) could cap AMD's addressable share well below the 5–7% it currently holds, undermining the volume ramp needed to justify the 71.98% forward revenue growth embedded in the signal.
- 2MI400 depends on TSMC 2nm/3nm yields, HBM4 supply from SK Hynix/Samsung, and complex Helios rack qualification — any slip in packaging capacity or customer certification pushes revenue into later quarters and compresses the margin expansion story.
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