It’s a big week for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD). The company’s share price has skyrocketed from around $2 a year ago to above $15.50 this week ahead of the launch of its new Ryzen processors. The launch of the new chips has been a highly anticipated event, and market expectations are clearly sky-high.
Unfortunately, as seasoned traders know, sky-high expectations can often spell trouble for red-hot stocks. In fact, there are at least three good reasons that AMD stock investors should consider cashing out of their positions now.
AMD Stock Is Overvalued
Wall Street analysts are projecting that Ryzen processors will drive 32% year-over-year revenue growth for AMD by fiscal Q2. That’s certainly some impressive growth. Unfortunately, all of that revenue growth and much, much more has already been priced into AMD stock. Incredibly, AMD’s market cap has increased nearly sixfold in the past year. It’s going to take a lot of quarters of 30% sales growth to justify 594% market cap growth.
Even with the impressive projected growth numbers, analysts are currently only calling for EPS of -1 cent per share by fiscal Q2. They aren’t projecting Advanced Micro Devices will turn a profit until fiscal Q3 at 7 cents per share. That would represent AMD’s first profit in years.
Despite the generous growth projections, AMD’s forward price-to-earnings ratio currently sits at a bloated 49.5. If Ryzen falls short of projections, that number could end up even higher.
At this point, Ryzen may need to deliver sales numbers well above and beyond the market’s expectations to even justify the stock’s current share price. At the stock’s current share price, it’s hard to make a case for additional upside in the near-term.
Ryzen Launch May Be a “Sell the News” Event
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