Dankzij de goede verkoop van Athlon processors verwacht Salomon Smith Barney dat AMD voor het eerst sinds tijden weer winst gaat boeken. De winstverwachting voor het vierde kwartaal hebben zij bijgesteld van break-even naar $0,11 per aandeel:
Given the promising outlook for AMD's Athlon processor and a continuing strong Flash memory market, we are raising our Q4 EPS estimate from $0.00 to $0.11 and 2000 from $1.50 to $2.00. We are also raising our price target slightly from $32 to $35.We now believe AMD shipped as many as 1.1 million Athlons in the quarter, higher than our earlier estimate of 950,000 units. We raised our 2000 forecast from 9 million to 12.5 million units. In addition, Flash demand remains very strong. Flash should present some upside to our present Q1 forecast of $224 million, up 15% sequentially.