QM · rank #5 · 2026-10-23
AMD
NASDAQ · $872.95B (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Momentum 12-1 Return from 12 months ago to 1 month ago. | +281.98% |
|---|---|
| ROE TTM Return on equity, trailing 12 months. | +10.2% |
| Profit margin Net profit margin, trailing 12 months. | +15.6% |
| Market cap (USD) Size filter: > $500M required. | $872.95B |
| Anchor (recent) Close on 2026-09-23 | $614.61 |
| Anchor (far) Close on 2025-09-23 | $160.90 |
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Summary
AMD is a full-stack AI infrastructure company spanning EPYC server CPUs, Instinct GPUs, ROCm software, and rack-scale systems, with anchor commitments from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta underpinning a shift from chip sales to integrated AI platform revenue.
Rationale
The quality_momentum signal is reinforced by 50% YoY revenue growth to $11.5B in Q2 2026, expanding 54% GAAP gross margins, a clean balance sheet ($13.1B cash vs. $3.2B debt), and a forward revenue guide of ~$13.0B in Q3, confirming that momentum is earnings-driven rather than purely sentiment-driven.
Material risks
- 1Hyperscale customers—including Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI—are actively developing custom AI accelerators in-house, which could erode AMD's addressable share precisely among the anchor accounts providing current revenue visibility.
- 2Nvidia's entrenched CUDA ecosystem and rapidly evolving GPU roadmap continue to limit ROCm's software differentiation, leaving AMD's accelerator pricing power vulnerable if the open-platform thesis fails to achieve broad developer adoption before MI450 ramps.
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