Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMD) high-performance computing and visualization products help gamers get the most from their favorite titles, and over the past five years, the most out of investors' portfolios.
Since July 2017, AMD stock's five-year return has outperformed a number of the world’s most popular tech and multinational investment bank companies: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AAPL), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:NVDA), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:MSFT), Ford Motor Company (NYSE: NYSE:F), Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: NYSE:WFC) and Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:SBUX).
Advanced Micro Devices designs microprocessors for the computer and consumer electronics industries. The majority of the firm's sales are in the personal computer and data center markets via CPUs and GPUs.
AMD also supplies the chips found in prominent game consoles such as the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox. The firm was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Here's how the returns break down from July 2017 to present:
- Ford is up from $11.53 to $12.90 for a return of 11.84%
- Wells Fargo is down from $54.17 to $43.00 for a return of -20.62%
- Amazon is up from $51.28 to $123.75 for a return of 141.32%
- Nvidia is up from $42.03 to $181.03 for a return of 330.72%
- Apple is up from $37.57 to $154.98 for a return of 312.51%
- Microsoft is up from $73.79 to $263.99 for a return of 257.76%
- Starbucks is up from $57.98 to $83.56 for a return of 44.12%
- And finally, AMD is up from $13.88 a share to $91.42 for a return of 558.68%
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