AMD shares slump as forecast disappoints focused investors
Corrects paragraph 3 to say $5 billion AI chip sales target is for 2024, not 2025
By Aditya Soni
Oct 30 (Reuters) -Advanced Micro Devices AMD.O shares fell nearly 10% onWednesday after the chip company's revenue forecast failed to impress investors looking for a bigger windfall from the AI boom.
AMD could lose around $25 billion in market value, if the losses hold. The company has been one of the biggest winners of the chip demand boom sparked by the rise of generative AI, with its shares up nearly 156% since end-2022.
Its soft quarterly revenue forecast and a $5 billion AI chip sales target for 2024, however, showed that demand for the processors was rising faster than their production, with CEO Lisa Su saying chip supplies will be tight going into next year.
"It is probably unpalatable for an 'AI name' to even guide inline, let alone below," Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon said.
"At this point AI performance, while not bad in the objective sense, appears unlikely to drive upside to current expectations, and talk of 2025 'lumpiness' in the business will probably increase risk (or at least raise some eyebrows)."
Other chip firms such as Arm ARM.O and Qualcomm QCOM.O also fell nearly 4% each. But AI chip leader Nvidia NVDA.O was down about just2% in a sign that investors did not expect a similar supply shortage impact on the company.
Both Nvidia and AMD rely on chip-making giant TSMC to manufacture their advanced AI chips, but analysts have so far shown little concern about Nvidia's AI chip supply.
"AI still dominates this (AMD) story, and while the company did raise (sales expectations) every quarter this year, the concern from here is that AMD won'tbe able to provide upside to Street estimates that are already $8 billion-$9 billion for calendar 2025," Jefferies analysts said.
At least 10 analysts lowered their target price on the AMD stock, while eight raised their views, moving the median to $187.50, according to LSEG data. That represents an upside of nearly 13% to the company's last closing price.
AMD trades at nearly 32 times its 12-month forward earnings estimates, compared with 36 times for Nvidia.
Reporting by Aditya Soni in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Shreya Biswas
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