NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 4:25 PM ET — After-hours
- Advanced Micro Devices closed up 0.28% at $215.58 and was up 0.3% at $215.62 in after-hours trading.
- Nvidia slid while Intel rose after a filing showed Nvidia completed a $5 billion purchase of Intel shares.
- Traders are watching Fed minutes and weekly jobless claims later this week, with U.S. markets closed Thursday for New Year’s Day.
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) rose 0.3% to $215.62 in after-hours trading on Monday, holding a small gain from the regular session. The stock finished up 0.28% at $215.58.
The move comes with U.S. markets down to three sessions left in 2025, a stretch when thin liquidity can exaggerate swings in heavily owned technology and semiconductor names.
U.S. stocks eased from record highs, with the Dow down 0.38%, the S&P 500 off 0.32% and the Nasdaq down 0.53%, a Reuters report showed. “In light volume trading, we’re seeing a reversal of what we saw over the last couple of days,” said Rob Haworth, senior investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. Reuters
AMD saw a sharp intraday swing before settling higher. The stock opened at $211.62, fell as low as $209.33 and reached $216.04, with about 17.50 million shares traded in the regular session.
Chip peers were mixed into the close. Nvidia (NVDA.O) fell about 1.2% and Broadcom (AVGO.O) slipped roughly 0.8%, while the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX.O) edged down about 0.2%.
Intel (INTC.O) gained about 1.3% after a filing showed Nvidia completed a $5 billion purchase of Intel shares at $23.28 per share under an agreement announced in September.
There was no company-specific announcement from AMD on Monday, leaving the stock to trade mainly with broader sentiment around big tech and semiconductors.
Investors remain focused on demand for AMD’s data-center products, where it competes with Intel in server processors and with Nvidia in AI accelerators — specialized chips used to train and run artificial-intelligence models.
The late-December drift in tech has also sharpened attention on the so-called Santa Claus rally — the typically strong stretch covering the last five trading days of the year and the first two of January — tracked by Stock Trader’s Almanac.
On the macro calendar, minutes from the Federal Reserve’s previous meeting and the weekly jobless-claims report are due later this week, in what Reuters described as an otherwise data-light period. U.S. markets are closed Thursday for New Year’s Day.
For AMD, the next major catalyst is earnings. The company has not confirmed a date, but Zacks and Yahoo Finance calendars point to an expected Feb. 3, 2026 report after the bell, with estimates around $1.31 a share.
Heading into Tuesday, traders will be watching whether AMD holds above Monday’s low near $209 and whether chip stocks stabilize as year-end positioning plays out.
