Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock was up on Thursday alongside the release of the March 2026 Steam Hardware Survey. This survey reads user data to show the hardware and software being used on Valve’s video game platform. The latest data for March 2026 showed an increase in users with AMD CPUs.
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Forget margin or options. Here's how the pros trade NVDAAMD saw its market share on Steam increase 1.22% to 44.17%, compared to the 42.95% reported in February. On the flip side of that, Intel (INTC) saw its CPU market share on Steam decrease by 1.22% to 55.82% from 57.04% in February. AMD has consistently seen its Steam CPU market share increase over the past five months, while Intel’s has dropped during that same period.
Turning to GPUs, AMD also saw major gains in this sector. The Steam Hardware Survey showed its GPU market share at 18.55% in March 2026, compared to 10.61% the month prior. This saw it steal a major chunk of rival Nvidia’s (NVDA) GPU market share on Steam, which dropped to 72.83% in March 2026 from 84.68% in February 2026. Intel also experienced a month-to-month GPU market share increase to 8.22% from 4.48%.
AMD Stock Movement Today
AMD stock was up 1.51% on Thursday but was still down 0.36% year-to-date. Even so, the shares have rallied 124.1% over the past 12 months.
AMD stock saw some 19.83 million shares change hands today, compared to a three-month average daily trading volume of about 35.25 million shares.
Is AMD Stock a Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Turning to Wall Street, the analysts’ consensus rating for AMD is Moderate Buy, based on 21 Buy and eight Hold ratings over the past three months. With that comes an average AMD stock price target of $285.16, representing a potential 33.5% upside for the shares.
