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SpaceX shares dropped 14%. Elon Musk’s space company late Tuesday said its capital expenditures topped $18 billion last quarter, double the previous quarter’s total, mainly tied to its artificial-intelligence build-out. AMD shares also fell 7% after Musk said SpaceX would exclusively use chips from rival Nvidia, shares of which gained 4%.
Analysts raised price targets after earnings, while bullish retail traders said AMD could climb as high as $800 on AI-driven growth.
SpaceX's first quarterly report since its IPO sent shockwaves through the AI chip trade, rewarding one ETF with a 21% single-session surge while punishing a chipmaker that just posted record revenue. The winner and loser share the same catalyst.
Advanced Micro Devices has had a stellar year so far. AMD shares were down around 5% on Wednesday following its earnings the previous day. The big question hangs over AMD’s ability to take market share from Nvidia’s graphics-processing units.
Aug 5 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Wednesday, as hopes of a Middle East peace breakthrough offset the slide in shares of SpaceX and AMD after the upbeat forecasts issued by
AMD stock plunged after another strong quarter.
By Johann M Cherian and Shashwat Chauhan Aug 5 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the S&P 500 and the Dow edged up on Wednesday on hopes of a Middle East peace breakthrough, while ones tied to the Nasdaq
AMD stock fell on Wednesday as analysts said the stock had been priced for exceptional results.
AMD stock fell on Wednesday as analysts said the stock had been priced for exceptional results.
$1.4 trillion That's how big the market for data center AI accelerators—microchips designed to process tasks like machine learning—will be by 2030, according to Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su. During yesterday's earnings call, she said the data-center market is expanding “far more rapidly than we projected just six months ago," boosting her company's growth prospects.
US stock futures edged higher on Wednesday as investors reacted to renewed hopes of easing tensions in the Middle East, while corporate earnings from SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) and Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) drove significant pre-market trading. Although geopolitical developments supported overall market sentiment, investors also assessed company-specific news, particularly Elon Musk’s latest comments, which weighed on both SpaceX and AMD shares.
Nvidia stock was gaining early Wednesday after the chip maker got a vote of confidence from Elon Musk’s SpaceX It might not be hurting that its chief artificial-intelligence processor rival Advanced Micro Devices looks set for a bad day. Nvidia shares were up 2.5% at $217.30 in the premarket. The move comes after SpaceX said it would exclusively use Nvidia AI chips.
Advanced Micro Devices shares declined before the bell on Wednesday as the chipmaker's stronger-than-expected revenue forecast fell short of lofty expectations and investors sought clearer signs that a multibillion-dollar AI spending boom will translate into faster growth. The move underscores elevated expectations facing AMD as it aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance amid intensifying competition with Intel racing to regain technology leadership after strong results. "We suspect expectations had moved higher following Intel's results a couple of weeks ago, and the buyside already has a fairly bullish outlook," said Stacy Rasgon, analyst at Bernstein.
Advanced Micro Devices shares declined before the bell on Wednesday as the chipmaker's stronger-than-expected revenue forecast fell short of lofty expectations and investors sought clearer signs that a multibillion-dollar AI spending boom will translate into faster growth. The move underscores elevated expectations facing AMD as it aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance amid intensifying competition with Intel racing to regain technology leadership after strong results. "We suspect expectations had moved higher following Intel’s results a couple of weeks ago, and the buyside already has a fairly bullish outlook," said Stacy Rasgon, analyst at Bernstein.
A rally across global stock markets continued, with sentiment boosted by the prospect of a U.S.-Iran agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
AMD's Q2 2026 results showcase record revenue of $11.5 billion, with data center revenue more than doubling year-over-year, driven by strong AI demand and strategic partnerships.
On Tuesday, shares of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) fell sharply in after-hours trading despite beating second-quarter expectations, as analysts said investors had been looking for a more dramatic AI-driven outlook tied to the company’s Helios platform. AMD Analysts Say Wall Street Wanted a Bigger Helios Forecast Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman said AMD’s results were solid, but the market had been expecting a stronger forecast driven by Helios, the company’s upcoming rack-scale AI p
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and SpaceX (SPCX) are among the most polarizing releases investors have been waiting for, with shares facing an adverse reaction initially following the releases. But should investors mute the noise?
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) reported record second-quarter revenue and profitability, driven by growth in its data center, client and embedded businesses as demand increased for EPYC server processors and Instinct AI accelerators. Revenue rose 50% year over year and 13% sequentially to $11.
Korean memory-chip manufacturer SK Hynix late last month booked roughly $65 billion in profit for the quarter ended June 30, a 13-fold increase from last year. Hynix earned almost as much money in 90 days as it had in the prior 29 years since its IPO, total. The reports, though outstanding on basically every measure, still fell short of Wall Street’s sky-high expectations for chip companies.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. delivered strong Q2 top- and bottom-line beats fueled by data center AI growth.
Sales to data centers grew to 58% of revenue for the company, which has pivoted hard to serving the fastest-growing types of AI workloads.
AMD earnings beat on revenue, profit, and margin, and guidance hit $13 billion. The stock still fell 8% after hours.
AMD (AMD) reported second quarter results on Tuesday after the closing bell. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) came in at $1.66 (compared to analyst estimates of $1.62), and revenue came in at $11.54 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $11.31 billion).Futurum chief market strategist Shay Boloor shares his thoughts with Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton.
Data center segment revenue climbed to $6.7 billion in the second quarter, up 107% from a year earlier, driving total revenue to $11.5 billion
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