Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 4. 10%) stock is seeing significant bullish momentum Thursday. The semiconductor company's price was up 3. 8% as of 3:30 p. ET amid the backdrop of a 0.
3% gain for the S&P 500 (^GSPC 0. 27%) and a 0. 2% gain for the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0. The stock had been up as much as 5. 4% earlier in the day's trading.
AMD's valuation is climbing today ing bullish coverage from HSBC.
The bank's investment branch issued new coverage on the stock this morning, and other investors are buying up s in conjunction with the re note. Image source: Getty Images.
AMD stock gets another boost thanks to bullish analyst coverage In a note published before the market opened today, HSBC upgraded its rating on AMD stock from hold to buy.
The firm also raised its one-year price target on the stock from $100 per to $200 per. As of this writing, HSBC's new price target suggests additional upside of roughly 39%.
HSBC pointed to an imving demand outlook for AMD's graphics cessing units (GPUs) for artificial intelligence (AI) as a key factor in its ratings upgrade and big price target hike.
The firm's analysts think that the company's MI350 GPUs for AI compare favorably with Nvidia's high-end Blackwell cessors, and that next year's MI400 cessors could further strengthen AMD's position in the data-center cessing space.
What's next for AMD.
Thus far, AMD has trailed far behind Nvidia when it comes to the high-value data-center cessor market -- but there are signs that dynamics may be starting to shift in the smaller company's favor.
There's still a lot of guesswork involved when it comes to charting the 's performance outlook in advanced AI cessors, but it seems to be making gress in the crucial artificial intelligence training space.
Even better, AMD could see strong demand for hardware used to power AI inference applications, even if its high-end cessors continue to trail behind Nvidia's for artificial intelligence training purposes.
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