What Is AMD Stock (AMD): The Ticker and How to Get Exposure

Most people meet a chipmaker's name long before they meet the company behind it. The name turns up in a PC build, in a benchmark chart and in a headline about artificial intelligence. Then one day it turns up in a search box followed by the word "stock", and the results come back as a jumble of price tickers, product reviews and forum arguments.

With AMD the confusion is honest, because the same ticker names three different things: a company, a share in that company, and a family of processors sitting inside millions of computers. Ask about AMD in a hardware forum and someone will hand you a graphics card; ask a broker and you will get a quote.

A share is a slice of a company. Own one and you own a small piece of everything the company owns and earns, plus a vote at its annual meeting. The slice stops at ownership: discounts on its chips and decisions about its roadmap both stay with the company.

AMD is a company whose products the artificial-intelligence build-out now depends on, and that demand has moved its share price and may yet enlarge its share count.

What is AMD stock?

AMD stock is a share of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a chip designer incorporated in Delaware and run from Santa Clara, California. It trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker AMD. There is one class of common stock, and 1,632,475,042 shares of it were outstanding on July 29, 2026.

One class matters more than it sounds. Some technology companies issue two or three classes so that founders keep control with special voting shares, which leaves outside holders with a weaker vote. AMD has none of that. Every share carries the same rights as every other share, and the whole count sits in a single line on the company's quarterly filing (source: AMD Form 10-Q, Q2 2026).

The identifiers are worth writing down, because a broker's search box sometimes asks for an identifier and not a name. AMD's CUSIP is 007903107 (source: AMD investor FAQ). Its ISIN, the international version of the same identifier, is US0079031078 (source: Stock Analysis, AMD company profile).

AMD is in the S&P 500 (source: Stock Analysis, S&P 500 stocks). It is also in the Nasdaq-100 (source: Stock Analysis, Nasdaq-100 stocks). Index funds and retirement accounts therefore hold it on behalf of people who never picked it. Owning one of those funds means owning a small indirect stake in AMD, and a fund that holds the index's shares buys or sells AMD as money flows in or out.

The share's price, its market value and its earnings multiple all move every trading day. The identifiers do not.

Market value, which everyone calls market cap, is the share count multiplied by the price. At the September 24 close that is 1,632,475,042 shares times $629.26, or about $1,027.3 billion (source: Yahoo Finance, AMD). The arithmetic also tells you where the round numbers sit. On this share count, a $1 trillion valuation arrives at $612.57 a share, a price AMD first closed above on September 21, 2026. AMD's 2026 record high covers what produced the run.

The trailing price-to-earnings ratio compares the price to the profit the company has actually reported over the past year. At about 160 it says that buyers are paying about 160 times last year's earnings per share, which only makes sense if they expect those earnings to grow a great deal. AMD earned $3.90 a share over the trailing twelve months (source: Stock Analysis, AMD statistics). Providers compute the ratio from slightly different earnings figures and revise the earnings figure from time to time, so quoted figures differ by a few points and rarely match to the decimal.

What one share of AMD gives you

One share gives you one vote, a claim on the company's profits if it ever pays them out, and a claim on whatever remains if the company is wound up. AMD returns cash through share buybacks rather than dividends. AMD's investor FAQ says the company does not pay a cash dividend at present (source: AMD investor FAQ).

A company that pays no dividend is reinvesting, and AMD reinvests heavily. It spends its profit on designing the next generation of chips, on buying the manufacturing capacity to make them, and at times on buying back its own shares. A buyback shrinks the share count, which makes each remaining share a slightly larger part of the company. That is the quiet way a company returns cash without promising a payment it might later have to cut.

A split is the one change to the share count that leaves a holder's stake alone: it multiplies the number of shares and divides the price by the same factor. AMD's last was a two-for-one in August 2000 (source: AMD stock split history).

The share count moves in the other direction too, and this is the part most beginners miss. Companies issue new shares to pay employees, to fund acquisitions, and sometimes to seal a supply agreement with a large customer. Each new share dilutes every existing share a little. AMD has agreed to issue as many as 320 million new shares to two customers if a long list of conditions is met, which would be a meaningful addition to a count of 1.63 billion (source: AMD Form 10-Q, Q2 2026). The warrants and AMD's share count works through the conditions and the arithmetic.

Influence over the product sits outside what the share buys. A holding gets you the same processor price, the same launch date and the same distance from the roadmap as anyone else. The vote it carries is a vote on directors and a handful of shareholder proposals, exercised once a year, and a single share is one vote among more than 1.6 billion.

Who owns AMD stock covers who holds the large blocks that decide those votes.

Where AMD's money comes from

AMD reports in three segments. Data Center covers the chips that go into servers and artificial-intelligence systems. Client and Gaming covers processors for laptops and desktops, graphics cards, and the custom chips inside game consoles. Embedded covers the programmable parts that end up in cars, factories and network gear.

The split is lopsided now, and the direction of travel is the whole story of the share price. In the quarter ended June 27, 2026, AMD reported total revenue of $11.5 billion. Data Center supplied $6.7 billion of that, or 58.2%, having roughly doubled from the $3.2 billion of a year earlier (source: AMD Form 10-Q, Q2 2026). Reporting the quarter, AMD called the $11.5 billion of total revenue a record and said data-center revenue had more than doubled year over year (source: AMD second-quarter 2026 results).

What each segment sells explains why the mix moved so fast. Data Center revenue comes from server processors and AI accelerators sold to cloud providers and other large data-center buyers, and AMD's quarterly filing credits its growth in the June quarter mainly to EPYC processors and Instinct MI350 Series GPUs. Across the whole company, the same filing says AMD depends on a small number of customers for a substantial portion of its business. Client and Gaming revenue comes from processors and chips sold to PC makers, console makers and distributors. Embedded revenue comes from programmable chips and processors sold into industrial, automotive and networking equipment.

Customer concentration cuts both ways. A few large buyers can lift a quarter quickly when they order, and the same few can slow it when they pause. AMD's annual report shows the risk is not confined to Data Center: one Client and Gaming customer accounted for 18% of AMD's revenue in fiscal 2023, although no customer reached 10% in 2024 or 2025 (source: AMD Form 10-K, fiscal 2025).

Which part of AMD the market is really buying

Data Center earned $2.1 billion of operating income in the quarter ended June 27, 2026, while the whole company earned $2.0 billion (source: AMD Form 10-Q, Q2 2026). The segment made more than the company did, because the costs collected under "all other" took $1.1 billion back out.

That is what people mean when they say AMD is now an artificial-intelligence company. The laptop and console business still brings in a third of the revenue and still matters, while the data-center line is what now sets the share price. The AI and data-center story traces how that shift happened, and what moves the AMD share price covers the standing drivers.

One quirk of AMD's calendar catches people out. AMD's second quarter of 2026 ended on Saturday, June 27, because AMD uses what its investor FAQ calls "a 52 or 53 week fiscal year ending on the last Saturday in December". Its quarters end on Saturdays, not month ends, so its "second quarter" covers different dates than another company's.

What AMD stock, AMD futures and the AMD cooler each mean

Three phrases send people to very different places. "AMD stock" is a share in the company. An "AMD cooler" is the fan and heatsink that ships in the box with some AMD processors. "AMD futures" is a contract whose price is derived from the share, and it is usually typed by someone who just wants today's price.

The three senses collide because one name covers all three, and search engines rank them together. A page reviewing a graphics card and a page quoting a share price are both, correctly, about AMD. The fastest way to tell which one you have landed on is to look at what the numbers measure: a share price carries two decimal places and a percentage change, while a cooler carries fan speeds and socket compatibility.

A ticker on its own is an incomplete address. It identifies a company only together with the market that lists it. That is why the cover of AMD's quarterly report pairs the symbol AMD with the Nasdaq Global Select Market and the class of stock the symbol applies to (source: AMD Form 10-Q, Q2 2026). Type those letters into a broker's search box and the broker resolves them against its own list of markets.

Why a search for AMD futures usually wants the price

A futures contract is an agreement about the price of something at a later date, traded now. Contracts of that family exist on AMD, including the AMDUSDT Perpetual on BloFin, and they are what the phrase technically points at.

Most people who search it want something simpler: the price. They have heard that index futures trade overnight, and they want to know where AMD stands while the Nasdaq is closed. Outside the regular Nasdaq session the share trades only in thinner extended and overnight sessions, so an overnight number may come from one of those or from a contract such as a perpetual. That is worth knowing before reading an overnight quote as though it were the share price.

How to get AMD exposure with crypto on BloFin

BloFin's one live AMD product is the AMDUSDT Perpetual, a contract whose price tracks the AMD share through an index and settles in USDT, so a stablecoin balance is enough to hold AMD exposure. BloFin lists no tokenized AMD share alongside it, although the xStocks issuer does issue one, called AMDx, for other venues (source: Backed Assets, AMD xStock).

AMD's investor FAQ is direct about the traditional route: "You can buy shares of AMD stock through a brokerage firm or a stock purchase service provider. AMD does not sell stock directly". That route needs a broker who will take you as a customer, which for much of the world means a local intermediary, a currency conversion and a wait.

The perpetual route starts from a stablecoin balance. What you buy is a position, and the difference is simple: the vote, the ownership claim and any future dividend all stay with shareholders. What the position gives you is profit and loss that follows the AMD share price, in a market that keeps trading through the hours when the Nasdaq is shut. Outside the regular session, BloFin may accept only orders that close or reduce a position (source: BloFin, stock futures trading hours).

An index sits between the contract and the share. The contract has its own price, set by its own buyers and sellers, and it can drift from the share. To keep the two together the venue publishes an index price built from third-party price quotes for the share, and a mark price beside it, both quoted separately from the contract's last trade. Read together at 01:38 UTC on September 23, the contract had last traded at $622.22 while the index stood at $621.73 and the mark price at $622.27. The prices you trade at set your realized profit, while the mark price drives an open position's unrealized profit and loss, its margin ratio and liquidation (source: BloFin, index, mark and last price).

Settling in USDT means every part of the position is denominated in a stablecoin. You post USDT as margin, your profit and loss accrues in USDT, and you never hold a share or a dollar in a bank account at any point. That is what makes the route reachable from a crypto balance, and it is also why a position carries no currency conversion on the way in or out.

Trading hours are the other real difference, and they cut both ways. The share trades thinly once the regular Nasdaq session ends, while the contract keeps trading, subject to the venue's rules outside regular hours. Rules for hours, corporate actions and any order restrictions around them are set by the venue in the notice for each market, so the notice for this contract is the document to check before holding through a session break. What the AMD perpetual is covers the instrument in full, and the routes to AMD exposure compares them side by side.

What the contract actually specifies

The contract size is the friendly part. Because one contract is a hundredth of a share, the smallest position you can open costs a few dollars, while a single AMD share costs more than $600. The contract went live on the venue on May 6, 2026 (source: BloFin, AMDUSDT listing notice). BloFin listed the contract at up to 10x and has since raised the maximum to 20x, so the contract details page is the version to trust on the day you trade (source: BloFin, AMDUSDT contract details). The contract's live price and next funding rate are on the AMDUSDT Perpetual page.

One position, two ways: Shares and the perpetual

Say you have $1,000 and you want AMD exposure. Through a broker, at the September 24 close of $629.26, that buys 1.59 shares (source: Stock Analysis, AMD price history). You own them outright, you can hold them for a decade, and nothing accrues against the position.

On the perpetual, the same $1,000 works as margin. Posted against a position at 2x, it supports about $2,000 of AMD exposure, which is 3.18 AMD, or 318 contracts. Your profit and loss then tracks 3.18 shares instead of 1.59, in both directions. A 10% rise in AMD adds about $200 instead of $100, and a 10% fall subtracts it.

Two running costs belong to the contract alone. The first is funding, a payment exchanged every eight hours between the two sides of the market, which is how a perpetual contract keeps its price near the share's. When the rate is positive, longs pay shorts. At the 00:00 and 08:00 UTC settlements on September 23, 2026 the rate was negative at 0.012%, so longs were being paid about $0.24 per settlement on $2,000 of exposure (source: BloFin, AMDUSDT funding data). Funding on the AMD perpetual explains the mechanism and how the rate moves.

The second is liquidation. The venue closes a leveraged position once the margin stops covering the loss, while a share position survives any drawdown on paper. That is the whole trade-off: leverage buys a bigger position and a shorter fuse.

Those extra trading hours show up in the price. On September 22 the perpetual touched $604.37 around 08:00 UTC, more than five hours before the Nasdaq opened, while the share's own low in the regular session that day was $606.31 and its close $623.77 (source: Stock Analysis, AMD price history). That early trading is useful when news breaks at night, and it is a risk when a gap opens against you while you sleep. Overnight and weekend gaps covers what that does to a leveraged position.

What to watch once you hold AMD

Three things move the AMD price from here, and a fourth moves your return on a perpetual. Earnings come first, led by the data-center number. The share count comes second, since new shares dilute every existing holding, and rival chips come third. Funding is the fourth: a cost or credit for holding, and only on a perpetual position.

Is AMD stock a good investment sets out the case on both sides.

Earnings land four times a year, and the market's reaction turns on the gap between the guidance AMD gave and the number it delivers. A quarter where data-center revenue grows 20% and the guidance implied 30% can send the share down on a day the company reports record revenue. How to read an AMD earnings report walks through the lines that move the price and the order the market reads them in.

Funding is the payment that accrues whether the price moves or not, and it is small until it is not. At the rate read on September 23, a $2,000 position paid or received about $0.24 every eight hours, which is roughly $0.72 a day and about $22 over a month (source: BloFin, AMDUSDT funding data). At the 3% rate a crowded market can reach, the same $2,000 position would pay or receive $60 at a single settlement, and in a flat market, on the paying side, funding becomes the position's main risk.

The competitive question splits in two directions. AMD against Nvidia covers the accelerator market the data-center revenue depends on, and AMD against Intel covers the processor business the two have fought over for decades.

If you would rather follow someone with a track record, copy trading mirrors another trader's positions in your own account. On September 25, 2026, though, BloFin's copy-trading list did not include AMDUSDT, so a copied position could not hold AMD that day.

Prices, funding rates and contract terms all move, so read the live figures before you size anything, and trading AMD with leverage takes you through the order types and how leverage is set on the contract.

Looking to gain exposure to AMD with stablecoins? To get started, you'll need to first create a BloFin account, fund your account with cryptocurrency, and navigate to the AMDUSDT Perpetual trading page.

Frequently asked questions

What does AMD stand for?

AMD stands for Advanced Micro Devices, the name the company was founded under. Its investor FAQ gives the founding date as May 1, 1969, and says the company set up headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The listing moved from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to the Nasdaq in 2015. The full name, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., is still the one printed on the cover of its quarterly report (source: AMD Form 10-Q, Q2 2026).

Is AMD listed on the Nasdaq or the NYSE?

AMD's common stock is registered on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, and its investor FAQ describes the stock as "traded through the Nasdaq Stock Exchange". Before the Nasdaq it was listed on the NYSE: the same FAQ says AMD "debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 15, 1979" and that "[o]n January 2, 2015 AMD moved to the Nasdaq Stock Exchange".

How many AMD shares are there?

There were 1,632,475,042 shares of AMD common stock outstanding on July 29, 2026, the date on the cover of its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 27, 2026. Filings state the count on one specific date rather than continuously, because the number changes as shares are issued to employees or bought back, so a count is always a snapshot with a date attached.

What does the AMD company do?

AMD designs processors and sells them; it does not own the factories that make its leading-edge chips. Its annual report names Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and GlobalFoundries as the third-party foundries that make the wafers for its main product lines. The same report puts its workforce at about 31,000 people at the end of fiscal 2025 (source: AMD Form 10-K, fiscal 2025). Its products run from the chips inside laptops and game consoles to the accelerators that train artificial-intelligence models in data centers. Lisa Su leads it, chairing the board as well as running it (source: Stock Analysis, AMD company profile).

Can I get AMD exposure using stablecoins?

Yes, through a derivative rather than the share itself. AMD does not sell stock directly, as its investor FAQ states, but the AMDUSDT Perpetual on BloFin tracks the AMD share price and settles in USDT, so a stablecoin balance is enough to open a position. The same market can also be sold short, so a position can profit from a fall as well as a rise. What you hold either way is a contract, not a share: no vote, no ownership, and funding and liquidation rules a share position does not have.

Researched and written by the BloFin Academy editorial team with AI-assisted drafting. All facts independently verified. Primary sources include AMD's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 27, 2026 and its Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 filed with the SEC, AMD's second-quarter 2026 results release, its investor FAQ and stock split history, Backed Assets' AMD xStock page, the Yahoo Finance and Stock Analysis records for the September 22 and 24, 2026 closes, and BloFin's AMDUSDT contract, funding and trading-hours pages and its help center article on index, mark and last price, current as of September 25, 2026.

Nothing in this article constitutes financial advice, and nothing in it is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold AMD in any form. The AMDUSDT Perpetual gives you a position on AMD's price and none of a shareholder's rights: no vote, no ownership claim and no dividend if one is ever declared. Funding is paid or charged every eight hours for as long as the position is open, outside the Nasdaq session BloFin may accept only orders that reduce a position, and a leveraged position can be liquidated by a price move far smaller than the leverage multiple suggests. Past performance does not indicate future results. Do your own research and consider your risk tolerance before you trade on BloFin.