John Harding - Advanced Micro Director

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Director

Mr. John R. Harding is Independent Director of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Before starting eSilicon in 2000 Mr. Harding served as President Chief Executive Officer and director of Cadence Design Systems Inc. . Mr. Harding also held a variety of senior management positions at Zycad Corporation and his career also includes positions with TXL and IBM. Mr. Harding has also held leadership roles at Drew University and Indiana University where he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and a member of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs Advisory Board respectively. In addition Mr. Harding has served as a member of the Steering Committee at the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and was a former National Academies Committee member for Software Growth and Future of the U.S. Economy. In 2012 Mr. Harding was reelected as the value chain producer director to the board of directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance. He was a director of the Global Semiconductor Alliance since 2007. Mr. Harding has served as a member of the board of directors of RF Micro Devices Inc. since 2006. He has also served on the advisory board of Atrenta Inc. since 2007 since 2012.
Age 59
Tenure 12 years
Harding holds a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry and economics from Drew University.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is traded on Munich Exchange in Germany and employs 26 people.

Advanced Micro Devices Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the Advanced Micro's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Advanced Micro inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Advanced. The board's role is to monitor Advanced Micro's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Advanced Micro's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Advanced Micro's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
John Caldwell, Independent Director
Nora Denzel, Independent Director
James Anderson, Senior Vice President General Manager
John Marren, Independent Director
Mark Durcan, Director
Devinder Kumar, Interim CFO, Senior Vice President Corporate Controller
Lisa Su, Senior Vice President General Manager - Global Business Units
Martin Edelman, Director
David Wang, Senior Vice President - Engineering, Radeon Technologies Group
Ruth Cotter, Investor Relations
John Harding, Director
Darren Grasby, Senior Vice President Chief Sales Officer and Presidentident of AMD EMEA
Bruce Claflin, Independent Chairman of the Board
Ahmed Yahia, Director
Forrest Norrod, Senior Vice President General Manager, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom Business Group
Harry Wolin, Senior Vice President General Counsel, Corporate Secretary
Nicholas Donofrio, Independent Director
Joseph Householder, Independent Director
Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President Chief Architect - Radeon Technologies Group
Abhijit Talwalkar, Independent Director
Robert Gama, Chief Talent Officer
Mike Rayfield, Senior Vice President General Manager AMD Radeon Technologies Group
Michael Inglis, Independent Director
Wai Chow, Independent Director
Mark Papermaster, CTO, Senior Vice President
Sandeep Chennakeshu, Executive Vice President - Computing and Graphics Business Group

Advanced Stock Performance Indicators

The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right stock is not an easy task. Is Advanced Micro a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.
Some investors attempt to determine whether the market's mood is bullish or bearish by monitoring changes in market sentiment. Unlike more traditional methods such as technical analysis, investor sentiment usually refers to the aggregate attitude towards Advanced Micro in the overall investment community. So, suppose investors can accurately measure the market's sentiment. In that case, they can use it for their benefit. For example, some tools to gauge market sentiment could be utilized using contrarian indexes, Advanced Micro's short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from Advanced Micro options trading.

Pair Trading with Advanced Micro

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Advanced Micro position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Advanced Micro will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving against Advanced Stock

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Advanced Micro could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Advanced Micro when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Advanced Micro - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Advanced Micro Devices to buy it.
The correlation of Advanced Micro is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Advanced Micro moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Advanced Micro Devices moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Advanced Micro can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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When determining whether Advanced Micro Devices is a strong investment it is important to analyze Advanced Micro's competitive position within its industry, examining market share, product or service uniqueness, and competitive advantages. Beyond financials and market position, potential investors should also consider broader economic conditions, industry trends, and any regulatory or geopolitical factors that may impact Advanced Micro's future performance. For an informed investment choice regarding Advanced Stock, refer to the following important reports:
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Advanced Micro Devices. Also, note that the market value of any company could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in board of governors.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Advanced Micro's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Advanced Micro is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Advanced Micro's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.