The stock market closed little changed on Friday as traders came back from the Christmas holiday. S&P 500 was flat at 6,930, while NASDAQ fell 0.1% to 23,593.
Despite the muted session, Wall Street posted solid gains for the week heading into the final trading week of the year.
Tweet of the Day
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— David Sharek (@GrowthStockGuy) December 19, 2025
Chart of the Day
Here is the one-year chart of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as of December 4, 2025, when the stock was at $216.
Last quarter, the company delivered 30% profit growth on 36% revenue growth, driven by MI350 GPUs and 5th-gen EPYC CPUs.
In last quarter’s earrings call, Advanced Micro Devices’ CEO said they expect cloud demand to remain very strong, as hyperscalers significantly increase compute capacity as they scale AI workloads. Customers are planning substantially larger CPU build-outs over the coming quarters to support increased demands from AI, serving as a new catalyst for AMD’s server business.
The biggest catalyst is the company’s 2026 AI cycle, which includes new MI400 accelerators and the Helios rack-scale platform. It has a multiyear deal to supply 6 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs to OpenAI and tens of thousands of MI450 GPUs to Oracle in 2026, 2027, and beyond.
AMD is part of our Growth Portfolio.
