AMD shares rose 3.6% by 12:30 p.m. ET Monday after TD Cowen analyst Joshua Buchalter reiterated a buy rating and $675 price target, citing growing adoption of agentic AI and production inference workloads where AMD's CPUs are better suited. The stock had lost about 16% over the past two weeks as semiconductor stocks sold off. AMD recently doubled its estimated total addressable market to $220 billion and expects its AI data center CPU sales to rise 70% in 2027. The article notes the stock still trades above 156 times earnings, but at 102x price-to-free-cash-flow and with 60% forecast growth, its price-to-FCF-to-growth ratio is about 1.7 versus a PEG of 2.6.
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