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The companies you own inside this consumer staples fund are collectively signaling stronger profits are on the way. The State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLP) returned +9.4% over the past year, but the more telling signal for what comes next lies inside the fund itself. Among its largest holdings, companies making up 32% of the fund's total weight have recently raised their forward guidance for earnings, revenue, or cash flow. A Decidedly Positive Lean That figure is the key to understanding the fund's forward momentum. It stands in sharp contrast to the holdings that trimmed their outlook, which account for just 10.7% of the fund. The rest left their guidance unchanged. When you own an index fund, you own the collective trajectory of its companies, and right now, the weight of the evidence is pointing toward improving fundamentals. Who's Pulling the Weight? This positive tilt isn't abstract; it's driven by specific, heavyweight positions. The single biggest contributor was Walmart (WMT), which accounts for more than 10% of the fund and raised its EPS guidance by 8%. Other large holdings like Coca-Cola (KO), at 7.0% of the fund, also nudged their forecasts higher, showing the positive sentiment is not isolated to a single name. Of course, not every company is on the same path. The most significant downward revision came from Philip Morris International (PM). At 6.1% of the fund, it lowered its EPS guidance by 4%. But on balance, the positive revisions from companies like Walmart carry far more weight across the portfolio. A Signal That Can Lead the Price Why does this matter for you as an owner of XLP? A company’s own guidance is one of the earliest indicators of its future earnings power. When you see a broad-based tilt where the weight of companies raising their outlook is nearly three times the weight of those cutting it, it suggests the fund's underlying earnings momentum is strengthening. This kind of forward-looking check is important, as sometimes a fund's price can get ahead of its fundamentals. For an investor in XLP, this is the bottom line. You own a basket of companies that are, in aggregate, telling the market to expect better results ahead. While no signal is a guarantee, having the fund's own holdings guide their earnings higher provides a fundamental tailwind that a simple price chart or trailing valuation multiple doesn't...

We recently published Ray Dalio Stock Portfolio: 10 Best Stocks to Buy. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is one of Ray Dalio's best stocks to buy. On July 6, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) shares rose 6.6% to $551.98 after Goldman Sachs raised its price target to $640 from $450. The firm reiterated a Buy rating. The analyst noted expectations for strong second-quarter earnings with solid guidance as well as sustained AI demand. The firm said the new target still implies about 16% upside despite the stock’s gain of more than 300% over the past year. Analyst James Schneider wrote, “We see a constructive setup heading into the quarter driven by CPU demand for agentic AI and AI infrastructure spending.” He said Goldman expects AMD to report strong second-quarter earnings in August. Schneider also noted, “Comments on new customer engagement should drive 2027 data center estimates and the stock higher,” pointing to partnerships with Meta Platforms and OpenAI. He called Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD)’s Advancing AI event on July 22-23 a “positive catalyst” and said the company will likely present a constructive outlook for server CPU demand. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is a leading semiconductor company working in high-performance computing and graphics solutions. While we acknowledge the potential of AMD as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 33 Stocks That Should Double in 3 Years and Cathie Wood 2026 Portfolio: 10 Best Stocks to Buy. Disclosure: None. Follow Insider Monkey on Google News.

Barely a week goes by without another megacap cloud provider pledging billions more to AI infrastructure, from data centers and hyperscalers to the server chips that power those systems. The wider market is bracing for that spending to transform the industry, with estimates putting AI’s growth trajectory from about $135 billion in 2023 to more than $20 trillion by 2040. Over the past six months, Advanced Micro Device’s ((AMD) share price has jumped 147%. This places it firmly among the strongest large‑cap semiconductor names, showing investors’ support. Bank of America is leaning into that story, arguing that “exceptional” demand for AMD’s EPYC server chips and AI accelerators could set up yet another beat‑and‑raise quarter. Dear Google Stock Fans, Mark Your Calendars for July 13 Oracle Stock Crashes to a 52-Week Low. Here’s Why It Might Be Time to Buy. Elon Musk Dubs Him ‘Scam Altman’ Not Sam — Then Altman Clapped Back: ‘Homeboy You’re The One Selling Space Datacenters’ Tired of missing midday reversals? The FREE Barchart Brief newsletter keeps you in the know. Sign up now! For anyone watching the stock, there is an obvious question. How much more room is there for upside if this server demand keeps building? Advanced Micro Devices designs server CPUs, accelerators, and client chips that help big companies and cloud providers handle heavy computing tasks more efficiently. The company is based in Santa Clara, California and now has a market value of $871 billion. AMD’s stock is up 158% so far this year and 277.8% over the past 52 weeks. That kind of move has pushed its forward price‑to‑earnings multiple to 90.26 times versus a sector median of 24.75 times, and its price‑to‑sales ratio to 26.26 times compared with a median of 3.37 times, showing the amounts investors are willing to pay for its growth story. In the first quarter of 2026, the company reported sales of $10.25 billion, with sales growth of -0.17%, which still reflects a very large revenue base. Net income was $13.83 billion and net income growth came in at -8.47%. Earnings per share for the quarter ending March 2026 landed at $1.11 against a consensus estimate of $1.06, a positive earnings surprise of 4.72%. The balance sheet shows total assets of $79.6 billion, up 3.53%, and total liabilities near $15.2 billion, up 9.00%. Operating cash flow came in at $2.96 billion, though that figure was down...

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD, Financials), the semiconductor company behind EPYC server processors and Ryzen PC chips, could be headed for another strong quarter as demand for AI infrastructure continues to build. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 9 Warning Signs with AMD. Is AMD fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. In a new research note, Bank of America said it expects AMD to deliver a "beat and raise" quarter, pointing to exceptional demand for its EPYC server processors. The firm believes AMD is continuing to win market share in the data center market as cloud providers and enterprise customers expand AI infrastructure. The optimism comes as spending on AI servers remains one of the strongest areas in the semiconductor industry. AMD has steadily strengthened its position against rival Intel by offering higher-performance server chips, while also expanding its portfolio of AI accelerators. Bank of America believes those trends should support another solid set of quarterly results and an improved outlook for the rest of the year. The firm expects continued momentum from large cloud customers as well as broader enterprise adoption of AI workloads. AMD has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the industry's AI investment cycle, and investors are looking for signs that demand remains strong despite concerns about rising competition. The company's upcoming earnings report will provide a closer look at server chip demand, AI revenue growth and whether management sees the current momentum continuing through the second half of the year.

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Revenue Outlook: Updated total revenue expectation for FY26 is $2.45 billion to $2.55 billion, a decline of 7% at the midpoint compared with prior guidance. Public Cloud Revenue: New outlook for the year is $1.45 billion to $1.50 billion, $125 million lower than prior expectations. Private Cloud Revenue: New outlook is $1.0 billion to $1.05 billion, $25 million lower than prior expectations. EBITDA Outlook: Updated targets are $285 million to $295 million, compared with prior outlook of $305 million to $315 million. 2Q '26 Preliminary Revenue: Expected to be between $641 million and $649 million, down 3.1% at the midpoint. 2Q '26 Public Cloud Revenue: Expected between $399 million and $403 million. 2Q '26 Private Cloud Revenue: Expected between $242 million and $246 million. 2Q '26 EBITDA: Expected to be $58 million to $62 million. Capital Expenditures: First deployment under AMD agreement expected to be approximately $75 million. AI Compute Capacity Revenue: Expected $15 million to $20 million per megawatt deployed, with a committed floor of $10 million per megawatt for initial deployment. AI Compute Capacity EBITDA Margins: Expected to be in the 50% plus range. ATM Equity Offering: Announced a $250 million at-the-market equity offering for growth capital related to GPU initiatives. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 5 Warning Signs with RXT. Is RXT fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: July 09, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Rackspace Technology Inc (NASDAQ:RXT) is strategically positioning itself as a leader in the enterprise AI market, particularly in regulated industries and sovereign markets. The company has established a strong partnership with Palantir, becoming a preferred deployment and operations partner for regulated and sovereign environments. Rackspace has curated a robust ecosystem of best-of-breed partners, including Uniphore, VMware, and Rubrik, to enhance its AI capabilities and offerings. The company is focusing on higher-margin opportunities by transitioning away from low-margin public cloud infrastructure resale revenue. Rackspace is launching a $250 million at-the-market equity offering to support growth capital related to its GPU initiatives, indicating a proactive approach to financing...

I have covered AMD twice this July. First, Goldman Sachs raised its price target to $640 from $450 on July 5. And before that, when Wells Fargo made the same fundamental argument at the start of the month. Both times, the central thesis was the same: The server CPU story is being underappreciated, while the GPU narrative gets all the attention. Goldman is now going deeper ahead of AMD's Aug. 4 earnings report, and the note shared with me at TheStreet makes the case more specifically than either price target call did. The "powerful advantage" Goldman sees heading into the print is not the Instinct MI450 GPU ramp. Not the hyperscaler AI spending surge. And not the balance sheet. It is the EPYC server CPU, and it is being driven by something the market has only recently started to price correctly: agentic AI. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ranks as the ninth-best performing S&P 500 component year to date, according to Slickcharts. The question Goldman is answering is whether the earnings on Aug. 4 keep it there. Also Read: History of AMD: Timeline and Facts In the note shared with me at TheStreet as part of its broader semiconductor earnings preview, Goldman Sachs analyst James Schneider specifically outlined AMD's setup. The firm expects upside to Q2 results and Q3 guidance, with Data Center strength as the primary driver and tepid PC trends as the partial offset. Goldman's Q2 and Q3 EPS estimates are 1% above the Street consensus. Also Read: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Latest News and Stories More importantly, their 2027 EPS estimate of $14.50 is 13% above Street, according to the note. That gap is the real signal: Goldman believes the market is underestimating AMD's earnings power in 2027 by a material amount, and server CPUs are the mechanism. AMD guided for 70% year-over-year growth in server CPU revenues for Q2, according to the note. Goldman believes commentary on agentic AI driving server CPU demand could push data-center estimates higher both for Q3 guidance and the 2027 outlook. More AMD: AMD CEO Lisa Su drops rare message on AI careers Bank of America resets AMD stock price target AMD CEO makes bold move to boost AI in key market AMD’s stock buybacks explained: History, balance & outlook The firm raised its EPS estimates by approximately 7% on average heading into the print, driven by higher server CPU revenues and margin improvements, according to the...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced today that it will report fiscal second quarter 2026 financial results on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, after the market close. Management will conduct a conference call to discuss these results at 5:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. PT. Interested parties are invited to listen to the webcast of the conference call via the AMD Investor Relations website ir.amd.com. AMD also announced it will participate in the following events for the financial community: KeyBanc’s Technology Leadership Forum on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 Citi’s 2026 Global TMT Conference on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026 Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. Webcasts of the presentations can be accessed on AMD’s Investor Relations website ir.amd.com. About AMD AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) drives innovation in high-performance and AI computing to solve the world’s most important challenges. Today, AMD technology powers billions of experiences across cloud and AI infrastructure, embedded systems, AI PCs and gaming. With a broad portfolio of AI-optimized CPUs, GPUs, networking and software, AMD delivers full-stack AI solutions that provide the performance and scalability needed for a new era of intelligent computing. Learn more at www.amd.com. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo and the combination thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. ContactCarolyn GussAMD [email protected] Liz StineAMD Investor [email protected]

Despite a record quarter, Samsung's (005930.KS) preliminary earnings results are causing volatility in the memory sector, just ahead of SK Hynix's (000660.KS) Friday IPO. Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré takes a closer look in the video above.

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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) are the two largest producers of discrete GPUs. They both produce data center GPUs for the booming AI market. However, Nvidia often attracts more attention than AMD because it controls more than 90% of the discrete GPU market. AMD, which tries to compete against Nvidia with its cheaper chips, only holds a single-digit share. Nvidia also generates most of its revenue from its data center GPUs, but AMD still sells x86 CPUs for the slower-growth PC market. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue » Nvidia's stock has rallied more than 930% over the past five years, while AMD's stock has risen nearly 520%. Yet Nvidia still trades at just 21 times its projected EPS for fiscal 2027 (which started in January 2026), while AMD trades at 97 times its projected EPS for 2026. Therefore, it certainly seems like Nvidia, with a market cap of $4.71 trillion, is still fundamentally cheaper than AMD, which is only worth $854 billion. So are analysts setting the bar too high for AMD, and too low for Nvidia? Let's dig deeper to find out. From fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2026, Nvidia's revenue and net income grew at CAGRs of 69% and 94%, respectively. That explosive growth, driven by surging sales of data center GPUs to hyperscalers and AI companies, repeatedly crushed Wall Street's estimates. Even after the AI boom lit a blazing fire under Nvidia's business, its analysts still underestimated its growth potential. In the first quarter of fiscal 2027, its revenue surged 85% year over year to $81.6 billion, beating analysts' expectations by a whopping $2.5 billion. From fiscal 2026 to fiscal 2029, analysts expect Nvidia's revenue and EPS to each grow at CAGRs of 46%. That growth should be driven by its new Vera Rubin platform, which merges its Vera CPUs and next-gen Rubin GPUs; the growth of the agentic AI market, increased government spending on AI solutions, and the expansion of its sticky software ecosystem. The auto sector will also likely install more of its chips in autonomous vehicles. But if you expect Nvidia to consistently beat analysts' estimates over the next three years as those catalysts kick in, then it...

Shares of peer stocks SanDisk and Western Digital rallied over 12% in the overnight session. Booming demand for memory chips from AI data centers and component shortages have fueled a memory supercycle, benefiting the major players in the sector. Stocktwits sentiment for MU and DRAM was ‘extremely bullish.’ Memory chip stocks rallied in overnight trading late Wednesday, joining Micron after the chipmaker posted record fiscal third-quarter results and indicated that rapid growth will be sustained over the next few years. SanDisk and Western Digital stocks rose over 12% each, while Seagate shares were up 10%. See what 10M+ investors are talking about. Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox Micron’s stock was up nearly 16%, and the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) was up 10%. The euphoria spilled over to legacy chipmakers as well, with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices stocks climbing 5.4% and 3.7% respectively. Micron said revenue increased 346% to $41.46 billion last quarter, handily beating analysts’ expectations of $35.3 billion. Earnings came in at $25.11 per share, beating expectations of $20.28 per share. Notably, Micron’s gross margin surged to 84.9% in the third quarter from 39% a year earlier, placing it among the highest-margin companies in the technology sector. The company’s revenue and profit outlook for the current quarter, which ends in August, also blew past expectations. Booming demand for memory chips from AI data centers and component shortages have fueled a memory supercycle, benefiting major players including SanDisk, Seagate, and Western Digital as well as Korean giants SK Hynix and Samsung. Micron management said the chip shortage would go beyond 2027, a significant change from previous guidance that called for it to end by the start of next year. “Supply shortages in memory and storage will take considerable time to improve,” CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said on the call. “Even as we expect industry supply to improve gradually in 2028, we currently do not have line of sight as to when memory supply will be able to catch up with increasing demand.” Mehrotra's remarks also come as the most direct rebuttal to "The Big Short" investor Michael Burry's memory storage cycle-top thesis from earlier this month, in which he said, "multi-year contracts are the feature that will become the bug." “This is a significa...