Bank of America: Favors AMD over Intel and gives the latter a "buy" rating

智通财经2023-04-14

On April 14,, as the first-quarter earnings season approached, Bank of America said that compared withIntel, the bank prefers theAMDBecause the latter may be subject to an acquisitionXilinxWhile benefiting from the industrial and automotive markets.

Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya gave AMD a "buy" rating and Intel an "underperform" rating.Despite the troubles in the PC and data center segments, AMD could gain more than Intel later this year as AMD launches new products including Genoa server CPUs, analysts said.

Analysts said: "Considering AMD's large contact with cloud computing vendors, which are expected to increase their investment in CPU/accelerator under the AI boom, we think AMD is in a better position on the whole. Its 5nm Genoa server CPU also has process node advantages and better multi-threading performance."

The current consensus estimate is that AMD will report revenue of $5.31 billion and earnings per share of $0.56 for the first quarter of this year. Meanwhile, the consensus expectation for Intel to post $11.22 billion in first-quarter sales but a loss of $0.14 per share.

Analysts added that although Intel's stock price has risen sharply in the past few sessions (partly due to its portfolio in AI), the company is likely to continue to lose server market share to AMD until at least 2025. Ahead of Intel's first-quarter results, analysts lowered their estimates for the company's 2023 results, lowering their sales and EPS estimates by 6% and 38%, respectively.

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