Arm Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) Stock Rated “Moderate Buy” by Wall Street Analysts

Shares of Arm Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) have received an average rating of “Moderate Buy” from the twenty-seven analysts that are presently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, seven have issued a hold recommendation, eighteen have given a buy recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year target price among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $303.32.

A number of equities analysts have commented on the company. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of ARM in a research note on Thursday. Raymond James Financial reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $166.00 price objective on shares of ARM in a report on Tuesday, August 25th. Rosenblatt Securities cut their target price on ARM from $270.00 to $250.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, July 31st. New Street Research upgraded ARM from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $260.00 target price for the company in a research report on Thursday, July 30th. Finally, Susquehanna increased their target price on ARM from $300.00 to $320.00 and gave the stock a “positive” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 21st.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CFO Jason Child sold 10,400 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $300.00, for a total transaction of $3,120,000.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 153,442 shares in the company, valued at approximately $46,032,600. The trade was a 6.35% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in ARM. Employees Provident Fund Board acquired a new stake in ARM during the 4th quarter worth approximately $120,241,000. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership grew its position in shares of ARM by 1,203.5% in the 1st quarter. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership now owns 945,152 shares of the company’s stock valued at $142,983,000 after buying an additional 872,644 shares during the last quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC bought a new stake in shares of ARM in the 1st quarter valued at about $116,112,000. SG Americas Securities LLC grew its position in shares of ARM by 265.6% in the 1st quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 971,067 shares of the company’s stock valued at $146,903,000 after buying an additional 705,459 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Hyperion Asset Management Ltd increased its stake in shares of ARM by 28.0% in the fourth quarter. Hyperion Asset Management Ltd now owns 1,836,185 shares of the company’s stock valued at $200,713,000 after buying an additional 401,594 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 7.53% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about ARM

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Arm’s annualized contract value increased 13% to $1.73 billion, suggesting continued momentum in licensing ahead of its fiscal second-quarter results. Can ARM’s 13% Contract Value Growth Sustain Momentum in Q2?
• Positive Sentiment: Microsoft’s addition of native Python support for Windows on Arm PCs could improve software compatibility and support broader adoption of Arm-based computers. Microsoft Brings Native Python Support to Windows on Arm PCs
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to highlight Arm’s dominant smartphone architecture and expansion into AI data centers as long-term growth opportunities, although those prospects are already reflected in the stock’s premium valuation. Advanced Micro Devices vs. Arm

ARM Stock Down 6.9%

Shares of NASDAQ:ARM opened at $227.80 on Tuesday. ARM has a 12-month low of $100.02 and a 12-month high of $452.70. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $267.27 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $269.32. The firm has a market cap of $243.31 billion, a PE ratio of 234.85, a PEG ratio of 6.76 and a beta of 3.78.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 30th. The company reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.40 by $0.05. The company had revenue of $1.29 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.26 billion. ARM had a net margin of 20.25% and a return on equity of 12.24%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 22.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.35 earnings per share. On average, research analysts expect that ARM will post 1.15 EPS for the current year.

About ARM

Arm Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARM) is a semiconductor and software design company that develops central processing unit (CPU) architectures and related intellectual property. Rather than manufacturing chips itself, Arm licenses its designs and instruction-set architectures to semiconductor companies and technology manufacturers, which incorporate them into their own products.

The company’s offerings include CPU processor cores, graphics processing units through its Mali product family, system IP, development tools and software.