Though often overshadowed by its bigger competitor, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) is a chipmaking powerhouse in its own right.
For the previous ten years, AMD’s CEO Lisa Su, who took the helm in October 2014, has led the company on its stock market and business journey to its press time share price of $174.43.
When she took over, the semiconductor stock was trading at about $2.79, meaning that during Su’s decade in charge, it had rallied 6,151.97%.
Such performance means that any investor who chose to welcome Lisa Su’s appointment with a $1,000 investment in AMD would now have $62,519.71 – a staggering $61,500 in profits over a single decade.
How Lisa Su is guiding AMD’s ship
During her tenure, Su has guided Advanced Micro Devices through a string of business successes, such as the restructuring program soon after she took over and several acquisitions, including the $50 billion purchase of Xilinx between 2020 and 2022.
Unfortunately, however, the 2014 restructuring was accompanied by a 7% reduction in the company’s workforce.
Additionally, over the years, AMD has faced some stock market woes despite its overall growth of 6,151.97%.
The most notable have been the long period of sideways trading from 2009 to 2016 and the deep downturn in 2021, which saw the shares drop from almost $160 to about $60 before recovering to their press time prices.
More recently, CEO Su has led Advanced Micro Devices into the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, notably through the 2023 acquisition of Nod.ai and 2024 of the Finnish Silo AI.
Finally, the CEO has ensured AMD retains its reputation as offering far better value on GPUs and CPUs for gaming-orientated and similar PC builds, thus ensuring its continued popularity among hobbyists.
