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AMD FY25 Q1 earnings report

FY25 Q1 · 2025-03-29Release date 2025-05-06B$ · USD billions

Historical earnings report · Management guidance reflects expectations at the time of the release, not subsequent outcomes. The financial comparison uses the site’s normalized dataset, including comparative figures restated in later filings.

Server/PC growth coincided with emerging export-control risk.

Revenue
7.438 B$
Operating income
0.806 B$
FCF · company definition
0.727 B$

Assessment · Server/PC growth coincided with emerging export-control risk. Reading consolidated margins alongside FCF separates business scale from cash realization. The next assessment depends on the business-specific checks set out below.

01 Business performance and growth drivers

Data Center 3.7 B$(+57%), Client 2.3 B$(+68%), Gaming 0.647 B$(−30%), Embedded 0.823 B$(−3%).

Versus the preceding quarter, consolidated revenue changed by -0.220 B$ and operating profit by -0.065 B$; operating margin changed by -0.5 percentage points. Segment commentary explains the consolidated result. Sequential changes without controlling for acquisitions, seasonality and product transitions are not long-term growth rates.

Evidence · 1 ↗

02 Profit quality and margins

GAAP/non-GAAP gross margins were 50%/54%; next-quarter projected regulatory charges are not current-quarter expenses.

On consolidated revenue of 7.438 B$, operating margin was 10.8% and net margin 9.5%. Net profit differed from operating profit by -0.097 B$, reflecting non-operating items, taxes and related effects. This difference cannot by itself be attributed to product demand or operating competitiveness.

Evidence · 1 ↗

03 Cash flow and financial capacity

Quarterly operating cash flow of 0.939 B$ less capital expenditure of 0.212 B$ gives common-basis FCF of 0.727 B$. Ending cash and cash equivalents were 6.049 B$, versus total liabilities of 13.669 B$. Liabilities are not equivalent to borrowings; cash excludes separately reported short-term investments.

Common-basis FCF was 9.8% of revenue. Both operating cash flow and capital expenditure refer to this quarter, not annual or trailing-twelve-month periods. Working-capital movements and non-cash adjustments mean operating cash flow need not equal net profit.

Evidence · 1 ↗ · 2 ↗

04 Management commentary and contemporaneous guidance

Management highlighted EPYC/Instinct momentum alongside expanding R&D and go-to-market investment.

Next-quarter revenue guidance: 7.4±0.3 B$; non-GAAP gross margin 43% including roughly 0.8 B$ of export-related charges, about 54% excluding them.

Evidence · 1 ↗

05 Risks and next checks

MI308 restrictions affect inventory costs and addressable sales; adjusted margins do not eliminate that risk.

Evidence · 1 ↗

Quarterly results · CY-aligned presentation

Metric · B$2024 full-year total1Q
FY24 Q1
2024-03-30
2Q
FY24 Q2
2024-06-29
3Q
FY24 Q3
2024-09-28
4Q
FY24 Q4
2024-12-28
2025 total of 1 included quarters1Q
FY25 Q1
2025-03-29
QoQ ΔYoY Δ
Revenue25.7855.4735.8356.8197.6587.4387.438−0.2201.965
Operating income1.9000.0360.2690.7240.8710.8060.806−0.0650.770
Operating margin (%)7.3690.6584.61010.61711.37410.83610.836−0.537 pp10.178 pp
Net income1.6410.1230.2650.7710.4820.7090.7090.2270.586
FCF · company definition2.4050.3790.4390.4961.0910.7270.727−0.3640.348
Operating cash flow · total3.0410.5210.5930.6281.2990.9390.939−0.3600.418
Net cash CapEx · common0.6360.1420.1540.1320.2080.2120.2120.0040.070
Cash CapEx · Chinese company definition—————————
FCF · total calculation2.4050.3790.4390.4961.0910.7270.727−0.3640.348
Net cash · liquid assets less borrowings3.4113.5673.6212.8243.4113.1463.146−0.265−0.421
Liquid assets · including short-term investments5.1326.0355.3404.5445.1327.3107.3102.1781.275
Borrowings · interest-bearing debt1.7212.4681.7191.7201.7214.1644.1642.4431.696
Cash and cash equivalents3.7874.1904.1133.8973.7876.0496.0492.2621.859
Total liabilities · accounting liabilities11.65811.69711.34812.65111.65813.66913.6692.0111.972

CY denotes the calendar quarter with the greatest overlap with the fiscal period. If the first period has no start date, 89 days before its end is used only for calendar mapping. Financial values are not recalculated into calendar quarters. Incomplete years show totals of included quarters; cash, liabilities, borrowings and net cash use the last period-end balance. QoQ and YoY show absolute changes; margin changes are percentage points. Dashes indicate missing evidence or incomparable periods or definitions. Total liabilities never substitute for borrowings.

Definitions and evidence coverage

A dash means unavailable or undisclosed, not zero. Company-defined FCF may differ from total operating cash flow less common-basis CapEx. Total liabilities are accounting liabilities, not interest-bearing debt.

Management commentary summarizes the contemporaneous official earnings release; this report does not represent a full conference-call Q&A review.

Official source documents

  1. amd reports first quarter 2025 financial results ↗
  2. Canonical financial data filing reference ↗
  3. Filing source of the existing audited financial series ↗
  4. Financial filing · 2024-03-30 ↗
  5. Financial filing · 2024-06-29 ↗
  6. Financial filing · 2024-06-29 ↗
  7. Financial filing · 2024-09-28 ↗
  8. Financial filing · 2024-09-28 ↗
  9. Financial filing · 2024-12-28 ↗
  10. Balance sheet · 2024-12-28 ↗