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Wall Street Raises AMD Targets as Data‑Center Strength Drives Stock Rally

Analysts lifted price targets after EPYC server ramps and commercial AI deals pushed data‑center revenue sharply higher ahead of AMD’s August 4 earnings report.

Overview

  • The stock jumped more than 3% in Monday premarket trading to about $534 following fresh price‑target boosts from Goldman Sachs and other firms.
  • Goldman raised its target to $640 and Cantor Fitzgerald set the most bullish forecast at $700, joining UBS and Wells Fargo in materially higher valuations.
  • AMD’s data‑center revenue climbed 57% year over year to $5.8 billion as the company ramps EPYC Venice processors and signs large AI deployments such as Rackspace’s 30 MW plan.
  • AMD Ventures joined a $79 million funding round for Japanese autonomous‑driving startup Turing, which uses roughly 10% AMD GPU training capacity.
  • Analysts warn of risks from high valuation, recent insider selling, and supply constraints for chips and memory, and they point to the August 4 earnings print — expected at $1.55 EPS on $11.28 billion revenue — as the next market test.