Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is an American chip developer headquartered in Santa Clara, California. AMD develops and produces microprocessors, chipsets, graphics chips and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for the computer, communication and consumer industries. AMD has been fabless since the actual semiconductor production was spun off in Globalfoundries in 2009. The company has been listed in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index since March 20, 2017, has around 9,700 employees worldwide and is the world's second largest x86 processor manufacturer after Intel (as of 2011). The company's shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 1979 to 2014, and have been listed on NASDAQ since January 2, 2015.
According to AMD's latest financial reports and stock price the company's current Operating Margin is 2.16%. At the end of 2023 the company had an Operating Margin of 2.17%.
The operating margin is a key indicator to assess the profitability of a company. Higher operating margins are generaly better as they show that a company is able to sell its products or services for much more than their production costs. The operating margin is calculated by dividing a company's earnings by its revenue.