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AMD posts big beat in Q4 with sunny Q1 sales guidance

The No. 2 in GPUs just reported its fourth-quarter results.

Advanced Micro Devices just released better-than-expected fourth-quarter results with an outlook to match, but those weren’t enough to impress investors.

The No. 2 in GPUs reported:

  • Revenues of $10.27 billion (estimate: $9.65 billion, guidance for $9.3 billion to $9.9 billion).

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $1.53 (estimate: $1.32).

For the current quarter, management expects:

  • Revenues of $9.8 billion, plus or minus $300 million (estimate: $9.4 billion).

  • An adjusted gross margin of 55% (estimate: 54.5%).

That revenue guidance for Q1 includes $100 million in sales of MI308 chips to China, as the chip designer was once again able to send some of its AI processors to buyers in the world’s second-largest economy.

In Q4, AMD generated $390 million from sales of these chips to China. Without those revenues, sales would have been a lot closer to the consensus estimate.

The knee-jerk reaction for shares is lower, off nearly 7% in after-hours trading.

“We are entering 2026 with strong momentum across our business,” Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su said in the press release accompanying earnings.

Earlier in earnings season, Intel — AMD’s rival in CPUs — said supply constraints were weighing on its outlook, seemingly giving AMD an opportunity to grow market share.

But of course, it’s the longevity and magnitude of the AI boom, and how big a piece of the pie AMD can grab, that will ultimately determine the success of the shares in the medium term.

During the firm’s analyst day in Q4, Su said the company could post compounded annual revenue growth of over 35% for the next three to five years, with growth above 60% in its data center business.

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Chipotle beats Q4 estimates, but sinks on underwhelming full-year guidance

Chipotle reported earnings results that beat Wall Street estimates, but gave underwhelming full-year guidance.

For the last three months of 2025, Chipotle reported:

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $0.25, compared to the $0.24 analysts polled by FactSet were expecting.

  • Revenue of $3 billion, a bit higher than the $2.9 billion the Street was penciling in.

  • A comparable-store sales decline of 2.5%, less than the 2.9% decline the Street was expecting.

For the full year in 2026, Chipotle expects:

  • Comparable-store sales to be flat, compared to the 1.7% growth analysts were expecting.

Chipotle has struggled to spark sales over the past year and has previously cited strained consumers as a major headwind. The company fell more than 9% in after-hours trading shortly after the report was released.

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Take-Two raises its net bookings outlook, reaffirms November release for “Grand Theft Auto 6”

“Grand Theft Auto” and “NBA 2K” maker Take-Two reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Tuesday. Its shares climbed about 4% in after-hours trading.

The company posted net bookings, or the amount customers spent on its products, of $1.76 billion, up 28% from the same quarter last year. Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.58 billion. In November, Take-Two guided for Q3 net bookings of between $1.55 billion and $1.6 billion.

Take-Two hiked its full-year bookings outlook to between $6.65 billion and $6.7 billion, up from a range of $6.4 billion to $6.5 billion. The new outlook compares to Wall Street’s $6.47 billion estimate. The gaming giant trimmed its full-year net loss guidance to between $369 million and $338 million (prior guidance: between $414 million and $349 million).

In its last quarter, Take-Two pushed back the planned release date of “Grand Theft Auto 6” from May 2026 to November 19, 2026. The company reaffirmed that date in Tuesday’s report. The game’s last trailer came in May 2025.

Shares of Take-Two and other major gaming companies have been sinking since late last week as investors react to early showcases of Google’s Project Genie, which allows users to generate interactive, “playable” worlds with a text or image prompt. As of Tuesday’s close, Take-Two has shed nearly $6 billion in market cap since Project Genie was released.

Analysts have called the market reaction unjustified, saying that the tool doesn’t allow for meaningful interactivity or replay-ability. According to mBank analyst Piotr Poniatowski, Project Genie is — at the moment — essentially a “one-minute-long walking simulator generator.”

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Nvidia slumps to fresh lows after Jensen Huang affirms plans to invest in OpenAI

Nvidia is on track for its worst loss since late November, with shares extending losses after CEO Jensen Huang said the chip designer’s plan to invest in OpenAI is “on track.”

“There’s no drama involved,” he told CNBC. “Everything’s on track.”

With all due respect, there’s definitely some drama.

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia’s plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI had stalled; shortly thereafter, Huang said the letter of intent announced by the two sides in September was “never a commitment,” but that the company still planned to participate in OpenAI’s upcoming funding round.

Then, a whopping eight sources told Reuters that OpenAI is “unsatisfied” with Nvidia’s latest AI chips, and particularly their inference capabilities.

CEO Sam Altman took to X to call the reporting around his firm and the most valuable publicly traded company in the world “insanity.”

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