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AMD Grants CEO Long-Term Performance-Based Equity Award

Story Highlights
  • AMD approved 2025 cash performance bonuses for top executives, including CEO Lisa Su, with payouts expected in March 2026.
  • The board granted Su a one-time $75 million PRSU award tied to aggressive long-term stock price hurdles to reinforce retention and shareholder alignment.
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AMD Grants CEO Long-Term Performance-Based Equity Award

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An announcement from Advanced Micro Devices ( (AMD) ) is now available.

On February 10 and 11, 2026, AMD’s board and its Compensation and Leadership Resources Committee approved fiscal 2025 annual cash performance bonuses for key executives, including CFO Jean Hu, CTO Mark Papermaster, data center head Forrest Norrod, general counsel Ava Hahn and CEO Lisa Su, with payments expected in March 2026. The board also approved a one-time, $75 million performance-based equity award for Su, structured as PRSUs tied to ambitious long-term stock price hurdles through March 15, 2031, in a design aimed at retaining her leadership, tightly aligning her compensation with shareholder value creation and reinforcing AMD’s long-term strategic and market outperformance goals.

The CEO Value Creation Equity Award converts into PRSUs based on the company’s stock price and pays out only if multi-year performance targets, including stock price CAGRs above market benchmarks and a $600 share-price hurdle, are achieved while Su remains in a full-time leadership role. By linking vesting to sustained price performance and extended tenure, AMD signals confidence in Su as the architect of its strategic plan and underscores to investors that executive rewards will depend on durable market gains rather than short-term results.

The most recent analyst rating on (AMD) stock is a Hold with a $235.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on Advanced Micro Devices stock, see the AMD Stock Forecast page.

Spark’s Take on AMD Stock

According to Spark, TipRanks’ AI Analyst, AMD is a Outperform.

Score is driven primarily by strong fundamentals (improving profitability, strong free cash flow, and a low-leverage balance sheet) and a constructive earnings outlook led by data-center/AI momentum. Offsetting these positives are weak technicals (trading below key moving averages) and a demanding valuation (high P/E), with added near-term uncertainty from China MI308 dynamics and expected semi-custom declines.

To see Spark’s full report on AMD stock, click here.

More about Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is a U.S.-based semiconductor company that designs and sells high-performance computing and graphics chips, including CPUs and GPUs, for data center, PC, gaming and embedded markets. The company competes in the global market for advanced processors and accelerators used by cloud providers, enterprises and consumers.

Average Trading Volume: 37,296,906

Technical Sentiment Signal: Buy

Current Market Cap: $338B

Learn more about AMD stock on TipRanks’ Stock Analysis page.

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