NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / May 9, 2017 / Traders News Source, a leading independent equity research and corporate access firm focused on small and mid-cap public companies, is issuing a comprehensive report with no obligation on Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD), a global semiconductor company. The company recently announced financial results and business progress for the 1st quarter. AMD reported ($0.04) EPS for the quarter, meeting consensus estimates of ($0.04). The company reported revenue of $984 million during the quarter. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.12) earnings per share. The revenues for the quarter were up 18.3% compared to the same quarter last year.

While earnings and revenue of the company were largely in line with expectations, the company's future guidance came up short of what investors were expecting. As a result, on May 02, the company's stock crashed by more than 24.2%, loosing around $3 billion market capitalization.

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As per company management, AMD is well positioned for solid revenue growth and margin expansion opportunities across its business in the year ahead as it brings innovation, performance, and choice to an expanding set of markets. The biggest worry ahead for the management is with the firm appearing to be unable to scale up margins vis-a-vie its peers. AMD's CPU competitor, Intel, and its GPU competitor, NVIDIA, have relatively higher gross margin. Even Micron, which had a lower gross margin a year ago, had been able to catch up with its recent quarter gross margin at 38.5%. This implies that, as the firm sees competitive and pricing pressure, it has been unable to sell more value-added high yielding products and or control expenses.

Therefore, to get the profitability on track, AMD needs to articulate its strategy in a more nuanced way and drive it through the organization. A sharp focus on operational efficiencies will continue to remain a key challenge for the company and management's ability to hold margins more successfully than its competitors will be a key monitorable. Considering recent corrections, AMD is presently ahead of the pack, among other semiconductor and chip stocks. Moreover, modest expectations coupled with reduced valuations, has further de-risked the risk reward situation for the company.

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