Stock Forecast: AMD’s New Range of Ryzen Pro Processors Coupled with Outstanding Q1 Results Are Important Weapons Over Intel
This article was written by Esther Hanon, a Financial Analyst at I Know First. 
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“The first quarter was an outstanding start to 2018 with 40 percent year-over-year revenue growth. PC, gaming and datacenter adoption of our new, high-performance products continues to accelerate. We are excited about our long-term roadmaps and focused on delivering sustained revenue growth and profitability.”
--Dr. Lisa Su, President and CEO of AMD
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Summary:
- AMD published their Q1 2018 results on April 25th, 2018 crushing analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and guidance.
- Revenues increased 40% year-over-year. The improving margin scenario provides additional upside for the stock as AMD finally starts producing sizable profits.
- The stock surged 11% in extended trading and had increased ever since the company published their Q1 2018 earnings.
- The Q1 2018 earnings report of AMD also revealed that its Computing and Graphics segment has posted its 5th consecutive quarter of double digit Year-over-Year growth.
- Thanks to stronger Ryzen processors sales, AMD posted an EPS of $0.11 (beats by $0.2), and revenue of $1.65 billion (+39.8% year over year) - beats by $80 million.
- The reasons why AMD is beating estimates are the same. Cryptocurrency miners still bought many Radeon discrete GPUs. Ryzen APUs and processors are also finding more customers.
- The forthcoming release of ASIC miners shouldn't be of concern. They do not threaten the lucrative tailwind of AMD from Ethereum miners.
