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More like what are you smoking. Reality check for some:
Intel Q1 2000 Revenues : $6.7 Billion
Earnings : $460 Million (after taking $1.1Billion in charges against earnings)
AMD Q1 Revenues : $1.2 Billion
Earnings : $125 Million
So, in a bad quarter for Intel vs. a near-record quarter for AMD, Intel still generated more than 5X as much revenues as AMD, and more than 3X the earnings (and without charges, their earnings would have been more than 10X as much) as compared to AMD.
Bottomline, AMD had a fair quarter, compared to the all the rest of the semis. But in this case, good only translates in to a 1% growth over their last quarter, which is essentially flat growth, and what I had been predicting/expecting for them. >>
Yeah, it looks pretty bleak until you compare those flatline numbers from AMD to the numbers that INTC put up:
Intel earnings story
"Intel reported first-quarter net income
fell to $485 million, or seven cents a diluted share,
from $2.70 billion, or 39 cents a share, a year ago.
Revenue was $6.68 billion, down 16% from $7.99 billion in the first quarter of 2000 and a 23% decline from the fourth quarter."
Oh, and i don't think you even want to try to play doing a straight revenues comparison. Yeah, Intel has pretty large revenues in absolute terms when compared to AMD, but INTC is small potatoes in the revenue department. Intel had last year about $33.7mm in revenues. Compare that to MO (Phillip Morris) with $80.4mm, IBM with $88.4, or, if you really want to play with the big boys, try XOM (Exxon Mobil) with $228.4mm. Sorry, you lose, please try again.
I'm not saying that AMD or its stock is the best thing since sliced bread, but perhaps you should leave the buy-side analysis to the professionals... most people know precious little enough about finance and how to value stocks as it is, we don't need even more FUD being peddled around the place.