At least four analysts have lowered their ratings on the chip stock so far this year, with the latest being Ben Reitzes of Melius Research. “We should have done this 10 months ago after an epic run for AMD,” he wrote, as he moved to a hold rating from his prior buy stance.

Advanced Micro Devices shares fell to a 1-year low this week due to DeepSeek's AI chat assistant news. See why I continue to rate AMD stock a strong buy.

Wall Street forecasts Advanced Micro Devices will report revenue of $7.53 billion for Q4, up 22% year-over-year, in-line with management guidance of $7.5 billion, plus or minus $300 million. Earnings of $1.09 per share, a 41.5% increase, are expected.

Another analyst is casting doubt on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s growth potential in graphics processing units, leading to the latest downgrade of the semiconductor stock. Wolfe Research’s Chris Caso cut his rating on AMD shares AMD to peer perform from outperform on Thursday, reflecting more muted expectations for GPU revenue this year.

AMD needs to deliver amid the uncertainties caused by DeepSeek on the need for more compute. Read why I will maintain my bullish proposition heading into its upcoming earnings release.