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year today in the stock market we have
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seen some stocks like uber perform very
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strongly up 28% but also other stocks
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like Tesla down 17 and our focus is
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going to be on AMD which continues to be
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in a downward Trend down over 8% and one
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of the worst performing in the
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semiconductor space now we're going to
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run through our updated valuation based
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on the earnings to understand if there's
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a company to buy or one to avoid and we
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also want to flag it hasn't had the
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great last 12 months down around 35%
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losing more than 1third of their market
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capitalization and isn't trading that
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far off their 52- we low having said
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that both Wall Street and Seeking Alpha
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do consider this company a buy however
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AMD does face according to this analyst
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a double threat for 2025 and when we
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take a look the main reason is in fact
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the company specific related to the data
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center business isn't looking as strong
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as the analyst wanted and on a previous
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episode we have in fact covered the
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amount of downgrades this company has
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had at least 10 were covered so do check
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that out if you want to see the
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specifics but we can see the data
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Revenue did come in at 3.86 billion the
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market wanted 4.14 and that is quite
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some way away and ultimately analysts
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are worried that the strong growth we
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have seen in amd's core x86 franchise is
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starting to slow down and in fact
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perhaps Intel is gaining some market
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share that isn't the only issue as we
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said a double threat that AMD does face
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but there is another one from arm in the
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server CPU market and as we can see
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Microsoft and Nvidia have designed Arm
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based serice CPUs for their own cloud
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data centers that is increasingly taking
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share away from their x86 based chips
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made by AMD and Intel and it also goes
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on to mention that potentially it isn't
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just an issue we are seeing on the
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server side but also Nvidia could be
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about to make an armb CPU for Consumer
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Windows laptops which would further
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amd's client business as we said
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though this is one that analysts are all
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in agreement that they believe this
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company is only going to continue to
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suffer from the competition it fa is
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like Intel like Nvidia yet having said
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that their earnings continue to be very
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strong they've out formed or at least
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been in line over the last four and over
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the next four quarters they do
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anticipate double digit growth to the
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earnings per share and right now believe
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it or not based on the EPS for the full
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year this company is trading at 23.3 on
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a forward P looking basis which on the
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face of it does look very good the
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sector itself sits around 26 so you're
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paying right now a discount to the
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median of around 99.3% but you're also
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getting around a 45% discount to what
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AMD historically trades for around
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41.95 and there are some considerations
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we need to think about AMD in the
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whether or not over the long term it can
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continue to outform the S&P like we've
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seen over the last 10 years not too long
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ago we noticed Lisa sue the co discussed
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dat centers in specific having a very
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large potential compounded annual growth
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rate of 60% at least until 2028 and this
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is the one segment that will be very
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closely looked at at least over the next
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few quarters one that we just heard
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analysts were disappointed in for their
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Q4 however we can see nonetheless up 69%
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year onye and we also noticed their
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operating income was up around double
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from the same quarter in 2023 so whilst
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it did come under analyst expectations
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we are still noting a lot of growth and
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on top of that in particular to the
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growth grade where they get an A the
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earnings per share of this company is
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anticipated to grow at 43% over the next
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3 to 5 years which is not only
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significantly above the sector
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comparative of 15% but also
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significantly above their own 5year
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average of 33% now we're going to jump
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into our updated valuation as we
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we want to talk about how we got to
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$137 which is essentially derived from
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the DCF model now we have here the free
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cash flow year on-ear their latest
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earnings showing the 2024 amount at 2.4
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billion and average growth we can't
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ignore it for today's episode as it does
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go from positive to negative over the
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last 10 making it quite inconsistent now
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25% is what we are looking at today
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which has been lowered from the previous
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episodes of 30% but we have both numbers
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which we will run through for those that
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believe slightly higher is more
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appropriate but as you can see low
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medium and high as well as Bloomberg
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which we'll cover these numbers as
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the pin comment below running through
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your own numbers whether it's for AMD or
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any others but based on 25% with the
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discount rate then we get the present
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value of future free cash flows add
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together with the cash subtract toal
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debt get to the equity value divide by
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the shares outstanding and as you can
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see
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$137 which indicates 23% upside now if
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you do believe that is way too
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optimistic then we can show you for full
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transparency the 20% rate which would be
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$98 which would mean downside of 12% we
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do also want to use the high rate of 30%
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because we also believe in today's
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episode You could argue the 25 or in
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fact 30 and you can see that would come
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to
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$190 indicating 71% now we always have
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this Bloomberg figure here it is to
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remind ourselves that Bloomberg a few
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years ago believed that the generative
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AI industry could be worth around $13
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trillion where they saw growth at around
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42% on a companded annual growth rate at
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least over the next 10 years whil also
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adding the software Revenue would
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benefit significantly with around 280
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billion in terms of demand and therefore
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when we do input the 42% we get to $41
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indicating 261 upside that is more than
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a 3X from the current price now we're
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going to go through two of them today
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we're going to use both the medium and
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the high so if we start off with the
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medium at 25% we aren't just done yet
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because we do like to add a margin of
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safety at 10% execute on that if it
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meets our three golden criteria wide Mo
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strong financial metrics good
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forward-looking data where if you do
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believe that in today's episode a buy
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the
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$123 and we keep going till it's near
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the current trading price right now then
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around the current value of $110 we see
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20% MOS again a reminder based on 25%
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growth to the free cash flow and will
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see themselves believe this company over
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the next year will hit around the $148
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mark which translates to 33% upside now
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as we said you could argue either the
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25% rate or the 30% which we will use
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again just to show you the difference
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between the two as we've highlighted a
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$190 intrinsic value and when we do run
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it through the margin of safety no
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surprises it will be a lot higher than
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the previous figure you are getting at
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least 40% around around the
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$114 Mark and as we said Wall Street 33%
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upside so give us your thoughts whether
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or not in fact you believe 25% to be
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more appropriate 30% or in fact 20% at
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the lower growth rate and whether you're
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buying holding or selling this company
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you could believe a lot of growth over
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the longer term or maybe one with a bit
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movements in the portfolio given the
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volatility over the last few weeks and
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as always have a great day we'll see you
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all on the next one