Oppenheimer has upgraded AMD to Outperform with a $600 price target, according to StreetInsider and a post on X by Wall St Engine relaying the note on 9 November; a post by Stock Market News says the move was from Market Perform. Per that post, analyst Rick Schafer wrote: “We see DC up 135% (85% of sales) next year.”
The $600 target is 29.3% above AMD’s pre-market price of $464.15 at 6:19 a.m. ET on Nasdaq, and 33.6% above the $449.04 close on 6 November, by our arithmetic.
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The key insight: Oppenheimer has upgraded AMD to Outperform with a $600 target, 29.3% above Monday’s pre-market price by our arithmetic; per the relayed note, it sees Data Center up 135% next year at 85% of sales, against AMD’s own floor of more than 80% of 2027 revenue.
According to the Wall St Engine post, Schafer wrote the upgrade after AMD’s earnings and discussions with its chief financial officer. The post quotes the note: “DC accelerates materially into 2027 as DCAI (GPU) sales overtake EPYC server CPU, despite the latter up >2x next year.”
On capacity, the post quotes: “We model roughly 3GW/4GW in 2027/2028, respectively.” On pricing: “We see favorable pricing trends as AMD negotiates next-gen deals as an incumbent.”
The post says Oppenheimer expects OpenAI and Meta to drive AI GPU growth through the first quarter, with Anthropic ramping in late Q1, and Oracle, Microsoft and Humain contributing into 2028. It also cites AMD’s annual GPU roadmap, with MI500 planned for 2027 and MI600 for 2028.
AMD’s 2027 floors are from its Q3 2026 release and call (3 Nov); Oppenheimer’s +135% is from its note as relayed by Wall St Engine (9 Nov). The 2026 base and both 2027 figures are our arithmetic; neither is a company result.
What Was Posted on X
Oppenheimer upgrades $AMD to Outperform, with a $600 PT
Analyst Rick Schafer following AMD’s earnings and discussions with CFO:
“We see DC up 135% (85% of sales) next year.”
“DC accelerates materially into 2027 as DCAI (GPU) sales overtake EPYC server CPU, despite the latter up >2x next year.”
“We model roughly 3GW/4GW in 2027/2028, respectively.”
“We see favorable pricing trends as AMD negotiates next-gen deals as an incumbent.”
Oppenheimer expects OpenAI and Meta to drive AI GPU growth through Q1, with Anthropic ramping in late Q1. It expects Oracle, Microsoft and Humain to contribute to growth into 2028, with visibility extending through 1H28.
The firm also highlights AMD’s annual GPU roadmap, with MI500 planned for 2027 and MI600 for 2028.
Wall St Engine’s post at 11:02 UTC on 9 November relays Oppenheimer’s upgrade of AMD to Outperform with a $600 price target, quoting analyst Rick Schafer: “We see DC up 135% (85% of sales) next year.” The piece takes the note’s quotations from this post.
Against AMD’s Own Guidance
AMD’s own floor is lower. On its 3 November call, chief executive Lisa Su said AMD expects Data Center to be “more than 80% of our total revenue in 2027”, and the company expects revenue to grow more than 80% in 2027. In AMD Says Data Center Will Be Over 80% of Its 2027 Revenue, we worked out that those two floors imply at least about $75 billion of Data Center revenue in 2027, against roughly $33.9 billion this year.
Applying Oppenheimer’s 135% to that $33.9 billion gives about $79.7 billion of Data Center revenue in 2027, Oppenheimer’s forecast and our arithmetic. Oppenheimer’s 85% share of sales also sits above AMD’s “more than 80%”. Neither figure is a company result.
As we read the relayed note, the gap with AMD’s own guidance is small: about $79.7 billion of 2027 Data Center revenue on Oppenheimer’s 135%, against at least about $75 billion on AMD’s floors, both our arithmetic.
As we read it, the note leans on named customers: per the relaying post, OpenAI and Meta drive near-term GPU growth, with Anthropic, Oracle, Microsoft and Humain later.
Rick Schafer, Oppenheimer, as relayed by Wall St Engine
“We see favorable pricing trends as AMD negotiates next-gen deals as an incumbent.”
Three Implications
FOR AMD HOLDERS The $600 target is 29.3% above the $464.15 pre-market price at 6:19 a.m. ET, by our arithmetic from Nasdaq data.
FOR THE GPU MARKET Per the relaying post, Oppenheimer models roughly 3GW of AMD GPU deployments in 2027 and 4GW in 2028.
FOR THE NOTE ITSELF We have not read Oppenheimer’s note; its content here comes from the Wall St Engine post.
The framework argues: “The $1T capex cycle is being underwritten by a $1T concentrated demand commitment from two counterparties whose combined free cash flow is deeply negative.”
As we read it, the customers the relayed note names for AMD’s near-term growth, OpenAI and Meta, are where that concentration shows up for a chip supplier. The framework predates this note and does not discuss Oppenheimer.
What Is Not Established
We have not read Oppenheimer’s note itself. The quotations, the 3GW and 4GW model, the customer timeline and the roadmap come from the Wall St Engine post; StreetInsider’s readable headline confirms the upgrade. AMD has not commented on the note.
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Oppenheimer has upgraded AMD to Outperform with a $600 target, 29.3% above Monday’s pre-market price by our arithmetic. Per the relayed note, it sees Data Center up 135% next year at 85% of sales; AMD’s own floors are more than 80% of revenue and more than 80% growth in 2027.
A note on sourcing. Oppenheimer’s upgrade, target and quotations are from a post on X by Wall St Engine relaying the note and from StreetInsider’s headline; we have not read the note itself. AMD’s guidance is from its 3 November release and call. Price figures are Nasdaq data; percentages and implied revenue are our arithmetic.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
