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Investing.com -- Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) stock declined 1% Thursday morning after Erste Group analyst Hans Engel downgraded the semiconductor company from Buy to Hold.
The downgrade comes as Engel expressed concerns about AMD’s operating margins, which he noted are "lower than the sector average." He pointed out that the EBIT margin "was even slightly negative in the last quarter." Despite AMD’s outlook for further growth in 2025 based on increasing demand for high-performance CPUs and GPUs in data center environments, the analyst views the current P/E ratio as high given the company’s "below-average return on equity."
Today’s decline partially reverses yesterday’s 2.4% gain. AMD shares have fallen more than 8% in 30 days, though they remain up 30% YoY.
The chipmaker has been positioning itself to capitalize on the growing artificial intelligence market, competing with industry leader Nvidia in the data center GPU segment. However, the company’s profitability metrics appear to be weighing on investor sentiment following the analyst downgrade.
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