AMD Reports Profit Beat, But Misses on Data Center Revenue

Advanced Micro Devices Reported Fourth-Quarter Results on Tuesday that Beat Wall Street Expectations for SALES and Earnings, but the stock fell about 6% in 6% in extended trading as the Company Missed Estimates In Its KEY DATS KEY DATAS KEY DATASE CENES

Here’s how the chipmaker did, Versus Lseg Consensus Estimates for the Quarter Ended Dec. 28:

• Earnings per share: $ 1.09, adjusted, Versus $ 1.08 Expected
• Revenue: $ 7.66 Billion Versus $ 7.53 Billion

AMD Said it expects $ 7.1 billion in Sales in the First Quarter, Plus or Minus $ 300 Million. It projectioned its gross margin to be about 54%. Analysts Expected AMD to Guide for Revenue of $ 7 Billion

AMD Reported $ 482 Million in Net Income, Or 29 Cent’s Per Share, For the Fourth Quarter, Down from $ 667 Million, or 41 Cents per share in the year in the year -go period.

Su Told Investors on An Earnings Call that AMD Believes It will report “Strong Double-Digit Percentage Revenue and EPS Growth” in 2025.

The company’s most important unit is its business seling chips for data centers, which has been growing in recent quarters, thanks to demand for its Graphics Processing UNITS UNITS UNITS

AMD Reported $ 3.86 Billion in Data Center Sales, which was up 69% on a dear-over-yar basis. The company said the increase was due to sales both in its instinct gpus and its epyc cpus, which compe with Intel’s Processors.

However, analysts pollled by factset was predicting $ 4.14 billion in data center sales during the Quarter.

For the full year, AMD’s Data Center Division Revenue Increased 94% to $ 12.6 Billion. AMD Said That $ 5 Billion of That Sames Were from Its Institute Gpus for Ai.

While amd is far behind market leader NvidiaIt’s released competitive data center gpus in recent years such as the mi300x, that some big infrastructure boyers, Including Meta and AmazonHave embraced.

“We believe this places amd on a steep long-term growth training, LED by the Rapid Scaling of our data center Oming years, ” Su said on the earnings call with analysts.

AMD Categorizes its chips for pcs, laptops, and other individual computers as client revenue, which increase 58% on Annual Basis to $ 2.3 Billion. AMD Said Both Its Chips for Desktops as Well as Mobile Computers Such as Laptops Are Seeing Strong Demand.

AMD is also the second-largest producer of gpus for gaming, behind nvidia. Revenue in the segment Declined 59% to $ 563 Million. The company’s other small division, embedded chips, reported $ 923 million in sales, down 13% year-over-yar.

Watch: AMD Beats on Q4 Results