Top AMD Shareholders

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is a global semiconductor company. It sells microprocessors, chipsets, graphics processing units (GPUs), development services, server and embedded processors, and technology for game consoles.

The top shareholders of AMD are Dr. Lisa T. Su, Harry A. Wolin, and Mark D. Papermaster. Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., and State Street Corp are the top institutional holders.

AMD's 12-month trailing net income and net revenue is $854 million and $22.7 billion, respectively. The company's market cap is about $275 billion. This financial data is from AMD's annual report covering its 2023 fiscal year (released at the end of January 2024).

Top 3 Individual Insider Shareholders

Dr. Lisa T. Su

As of Dec. 5, 2023, Dr. Lisa Su owns a total of 3,347,640 AMD shares, representing 0.22% of the company's total shares outstanding. Dr. Su is president and chief executive officer (CEO) at AMD, positions she has held since 2014. She also serves on the board of directors.

Prior to her current role, she briefly served as AMD's chief operating officer (COO) beginning in July 2014. Dr. Su joined AMD in 2012 as senior vice president and general manager of the global business units. Before that, she worked for Freescale Semiconductor Inc. beginning in 2007. She also worked for 13 years in various roles at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), and worked at Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) from 1994 to 1995.

Dr. Su has published more than 40 technical articles and was named one of the World's 50 Best CEOs by Barron's in 2019. She has an estimated net worth of $740 million as of 2023.

Harry A. Wolin

As of September 2023, Harry Wolin owned a total of 1,433,596 million AMD shares, representing 0.13% of the company's total shares outstanding. Wolin was AMD's senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary. Wolin retired from AMD in 2024.

Wilin was responsible for the company's legal matters, corporate strategy, global trade compliance, corporate investigations, and public affairs. Before becoming general counsel in 2003, he served as vice president of intellectual property. Prior to joining AMD in 2000, Wolin worked 12 years at Motorola Inc., where he last served as vice president and director of legal affairs for the semiconductor products sector.

Mark D. Papermaster

As of Nov. 3, 2023, Mark Papermaster owned a total of 1,554,602 AMD shares, representing 0.12% of the company's total shares outstanding. Papermaster currently is AMD's chief technology officer (CTO) and executive vice president of technology and engineering.

Papermaster led the company's redesign of engineering processes and the development of key technologies, including the award-winning, high-performance x86 CPU family. He is also responsible for overseeing information technology that delivers AMD's compute infrastructure and services. Before joining AMD in 2011, he led the silicon engineering group at Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO). He also served as vice president of devices hardware engineering at Apple Inc. (AAPL) and held several key leadership positions at IBM.

Top 3 Institutional Shareholders

Institutional investors hold between 67-69% of AMD's total shares outstanding. As of Jan. 31, 2024, institutional ownership was 66.94%. For the percentage calculations, the number of outstanding shares as of Jan. 25, 2024, is being used per AMD's Form 10-K (1,615,786,841 shares).

Vanguard Group Inc.

As of Sept. 30, 2023, Vanguard Group owns 140,054,820 million shares of AMD, representing roughly 8.7% of total shares outstanding. The company is primarily a mutual fund and ETF management company with approximately $8 trillion AUM. As of April 2023, Vanguard held $7.6 trillion global assets under management. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) is one of the company's largest ETFs with about $980 billion in total net assets as of Dec. 31, 2023. As of that date, AMD comprises less than 0.6% of VOO's holdings.

BlackRock Inc.

As of September 2023, BlackRock owns 121,643,071 shares of AMD, representing 7.21% of total shares outstanding.The company is primarily a mutual fund and ETF management company with approximately $9.1 trillion in AUM as of Q3 2023. The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) is among one of BlackRock's largest ETFs with approximately $424 billion in AUM. AMD comprises about 0.67% of IVV's holdings as of Feb. 1, 2024.

State Street Corp.

State Street is the third-largest institutional shareholder of AMD, with 64,162,483 shares as of Sept. 30, 2023. This is just under 4% of the company. State Street manages mutual funds, ETFs and other investments with $3.5 trillion in AUM as reported in the company's 2022 annual report. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) is among State Street's largest ETFs with approximately $492 billion in AUM. Microsoft is the largest holding in this ETF, representing 7.28% of SPY's portfolio as of Feb. 1, 2024.

The Bottom Line

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is a global semiconductor company. The top shareholders include Dr. Lisa T. Su, Harry A. Wolin, Mark D. Papermaster, Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., and State Street.