![]() Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are surging by more than 11% Monday after the company held its virtual Accelerated Data Center Premiere. At the event, CEO Dr. Lisa Su and her team made several market-moving announcements.
Shares jumped on the news that Meta has become the latest major hyperscale cloud company to adopt AMD’s EPYC CPUs to power its data centers. Meta represents the 10th major hyperscale company to adopt AMD EPYC processors.
We also saw the stock push higher after the company unveiled the AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators, which they called the world’s fastest accelerator for high performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads.
Lastly, AMD provided new details on the expanded next generation AMD EPYC processors codenamed “Genoa” and “Bergamo”
AMD sometimes gets viewed as a play on the PC market, but this labeling is far from accurate. Today’s announcements once again proves this is one of the premier high-performance computing semiconductor companies to be invested in over the long haul. Their data center business is on fire right now, with revenues more than doubling year over year in the latest quarter. Don't look now, but AMD is quickly closing in on Intel's market capitalization.
However, we can’t help but view this 10% jump — which extends the gains since the beginning of October to around 45% — as an opportunity to trim our position. AMD just went on a massive run, and it would be greedy if we never let some stock go. This is simply out of our discipline that bulls make money, bears make money, and hogs get slaughtered.
Bottom line:
We can’t make the sale today because we are restricted from trading the stock, but we want Investing Club members to know that we would sell a little into this strength.
The Charitable Trust currently owns 850 shares of AMD, making its weighting in the portfolio roughly 3.05% at a very low average cost basis of $83.77. We would trim about 100 shares this afternoon if we were not restricted.
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(Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust is long AMD.)
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