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Unkwn

01/03/15 7:17 AM

#138678 RE: biginvestors #138677

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What comes up, must come down - and some companies never come up again. AMD most likely is such a case and instead of putting your money at risk you should rather consider to short that stock. It might have some ups here and there, but in the longer term, AMD is in deep trouble.

The reasons for this have been discussed on this board quite often. AMD gets squeezed by Intel in its last remaining PC domain - low cost CPUs. Since AMD has nothing to offer in the higher performance compute space, which is entirely dominated by Intel, they can only compete in price. That was working reasonably in the past and Intel let AMD take that business. But since PCs were in decline and Intel had very price competitive solutions with its mobile based CPUs (BayTrail based Celerons), there is really nothing left for AMD in the PC business. Intel takes it all. Ok, AMD has graphics cards and the console business, but graphics cards are under strong competition from NVIDIA with decreasing market share for AMD. The console business is nice but the margins typically get worse the higher the volume. This year, AMD has sold more than 20 million of those chips to Sony and Microsoft, which certainly will lead to lower ASPs going forward. AMD won't go bankrupt soon I think, but they will suffer a lot from their weak technological position. A turnaround seems pretty impossible since AMD doesn't have the manpower anymore to achieve it.
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RGood

01/03/15 10:21 AM

#138679 RE: biginvestors #138677

Hummm,

As long as PC growth remains positive-the stock will go up.
Getting more traction in cell phone market - waits to be seen.

INTC has been way undervalued when compared to other stocks in with P/E ratios.

I beleive 40 is attainable this year.

Ronster
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techno_bull

01/03/15 12:48 PM

#138680 RE: biginvestors #138677

There are no fundamental reasons for its strong run...

The reason for the strong run in the second half of 2014 is that analysts were finally convinced that Brian and Stacy had successfully adjusted the financials (lowered the bar) and the PC business cooperated to be able to deliver a number of consecutive 'earnings beats' starting in Q2'2014. How many quarterly 'earnings beats' will we get remains to be seen. With some help from Microsoft and progress on reducing contra-revenue in 2015 the 'beats' could continue through Q4 2015.

I posted this in June 2014 and believe we are still on this path to a higher stock price through Q3'2015.

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