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Competitive Comparison

AMD vs. Intel vs. NVIDIA

Three different bets on the same AI-accelerator demand cycle, compared on real fundamentals — a leader I don't own, a challenger I do, and a turnaround story I also hold.

MetricNVIDIA (NVDA)Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)Intel (INTC)
Market cap~$4.8T (implied)$882BN/A (unprofitable trailing)
P/E ratio (TTM)29.95182.11N/A
PEG ratio0.287.52N/A (negative EBITDA growth)
EV/EBITDA29.43xn/a (quarterly EBITDA $2.23B)23.73x
Capex (TTM)$6.57B$282M (quarterly)−$13.10B

EV/EBITDA, compared

NVDA
29.43x
INTC
23.73x

Same EV/EBITDA figures as the table above, plotted for a direct read. Bold = held in this book.

Market cap, P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, and capex sourced via public filings and financial-data aggregators (GuruFocus, StockAnalysis, company earnings releases), as of July 2026. PEG ratio sourced primarily from GuruFocus where available; different providers use different growth-rate assumptions, so figures elsewhere for the same stock can vary by several multiples. Gold-highlighted column(s) indicate the name(s) actually held in this book.

Why I own AMD and INTC, not NVIDIA

NVIDIA is the dominant AI-GPU supplier by a wide margin, and its PEG of 0.28 against 108.9% EPS growth is a genuinely cheap number for a market leader — I don't dispute that. I don't own it because the thesis is already fully priced by the entire market, not because I doubt the business. AMD is my bet that the accelerator market doesn't stay a single-vendor story forever, at a real cost: 182x trailing earnings versus NVIDIA's 30x is the market charging a steep premium for AMD merely becoming a credible second source, not for actually leading. Intel is a different bet entirely — a manufacturing turnaround, sized small on purpose, where the negative PEG and EV/EBITDA reflect a company that hasn't proven the thesis yet rather than one the market has already rewarded.