Goldman Sachs Upgrades AMD to Buy, $450 Price Target

Analyst: James Schneider 1 min read Reproduced verbatim
Rating
Buy
from Neutral
Target
$450
from $240 (+88%)
Outcome
Reached
on May 8, 2026
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What the analyst said

Goldman Sachs analyst James Schneider upgraded AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) from Neutral to Buy with a price target of $450.00 (from $240.00).

“We upgrade AMD to Buy with a 12-month price target of $450 (27% upside) given tailwinds to its server CPU business we expect from agentic AI, as well as upside in datacenter GPUs in 2027 and beyond.

First, we expect proliferation of agentic AI in enterprise and consumer workloads to act as a medium-term tailwind to the server CPU TAM, benefiting AMD.

We expect AMD to be an outsized beneficiary of enterprise agentic AI adoption, where we see x86 having staying power as agents interact with enterprises’ exiting x86 infrastructure.

Second, we see upside to AMD’s datacenter GPU revenue in 2027 and beyond.

We are most bullish on the 6 GW deployment opportunity at Meta, and we expect stable share at Microsoft – although we await more visibility into OpenAI’s deployments.

All in, our 2027/28 EPS estimates are ~20% above the Street (VA), and we expect stock price outperformance to be driven by positive estimate revisions.

We continue to prefer Buy-rated Broadcom and Nvidia on a relative basis, but we believe AMD presents a compelling opportunity for exposure to agentic AI adoption via server CPUs.”

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Where the price stands

AMD trades at $491. The 23 analysts who set a target in the last 3 months range from $510 to $800, with a median of $685. This $450 target is 34% below the median, the lowest on the Street.

Since the note AMD has moved +38% (from $355). 12-month window: day 181 of 365, closes on May 6, 2027.

Track record

This call✓ Target reached on May 8, 2026, 2 days after the note.

Firm track recordGoldman Sachs: 78% of its 36 targets at least a year old were reached within 12 months (#16 of 26 firms); on AMD, 3 of 3. Accuracy ranking →

Earnings reactionOne of 22 notes after AMD’s May 5 results: 22 raised · 0 cut · 0 kept. See every call →

Goldman Sachs on AMD

Goldman Sachs price targets on AMD

8 calls from February 5, 2025 to July 6, 2026. The target went from $125 to $640 (+412%). The rating moved from Hold to Buy.

Goldman Sachs targetAMD share price
  1. July 6, 2026Target raised from $450 (+42%)Buy$640
  2. May 6, 2026Kept the $450 targetBuy$450
  3. May 6, 2026 This noteUpgraded to Buy, target raised from $240 (+88%)Buy$450
  4. February 25, 2026Target raised from $210 (+14%)Hold$240
  5. February 4, 2026Kept the $210 targetHold$210
  6. February 4, 2026Target raised from $140 (+50%)Hold$210
  7. July 10, 2025Target raised from $125 (+12%)Hold$140
  8. February 5, 2025Earliest call shownHold$125
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