Cibc World Market Inc. Purchases 27,126 Shares of ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR $ARM

Cibc World Market Inc. increased its position in ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) by 17.5% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 181,976 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 27,126 shares during the period. Cibc World Market Inc.’s holdings in ARM were worth $19,892,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Compound Planning Inc. lifted its position in ARM by 4.6% during the third quarter. Compound Planning Inc. now owns 1,569 shares of the company’s stock valued at $222,000 after purchasing an additional 69 shares in the last quarter. Rathbones Group PLC lifted its position in ARM by 0.7% during the third quarter. Rathbones Group PLC now owns 10,552 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,493,000 after purchasing an additional 70 shares in the last quarter. Kovack Advisors Inc. lifted its position in ARM by 2.0% during the third quarter. Kovack Advisors Inc. now owns 3,602 shares of the company’s stock valued at $510,000 after purchasing an additional 72 shares in the last quarter. Murphy & Mullick Capital Management Corp lifted its position in ARM by 9.1% during the third quarter. Murphy & Mullick Capital Management Corp now owns 926 shares of the company’s stock valued at $135,000 after purchasing an additional 77 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Balboa Wealth Partners lifted its position in ARM by 2.7% during the third quarter. Balboa Wealth Partners now owns 3,108 shares of the company’s stock valued at $440,000 after purchasing an additional 83 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 7.53% of the company’s stock.

ARM Stock Down 12.8%

Shares of ARM stock opened at $342.93 on Friday. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $224.64 and its 200-day simple moving average is $157.98. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a 52 week low of $100.02 and a 52 week high of $427.99. The company has a market capitalization of $362.31 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 408.25, a PEG ratio of 14.29 and a beta of 3.78.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April 1st. The company reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter. ARM had a return on equity of 12.43% and a net margin of 18.37%.The business had revenue of $1.49 billion for the quarter. On average, equities analysts expect that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 1.12 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities analysts recently weighed in on the company. Rosenblatt Securities lifted their target price on ARM from $175.00 to $270.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Raymond James Financial reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of ARM in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of ARM in a research report on Monday, April 20th. Needham & Company LLC lifted their target price on ARM from $200.00 to $255.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, Guggenheim lifted their target price on ARM from $240.00 to $255.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Twenty investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $226.92.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CEO Rene A. Haas sold 23,867 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, March 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $161.17, for a total value of $3,846,644.39. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 290,965 shares in the company, valued at $46,894,829.05. The trade was a 7.58% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, insider Richard Roy Grisenthwaite sold 24,339 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $209.15, for a total value of $5,090,501.85. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 5,543 shares in the company, valued at $1,159,318.45. The trade was a 81.45% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 301,338 shares of company stock valued at $66,030,158.

Key Headlines Impacting ARM

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Arm is gaining credibility as a key AI infrastructure player after management said customers including ByteDance and Oracle are using Arm-based CPUs in data centers, supporting the case for stronger licensing and royalty growth. Arm names ByteDance and Oracle as users of its AI data centre CPUs
• Positive Sentiment: Arm is also benefiting from NVIDIA’s latest AI PC and data-center push, which reinforces demand for Arm’s architecture and could boost future adoption across the semiconductor ecosystem. Arm Stock Jumps As Chip Designer Joins Nvidia PC Effort
• Neutral Sentiment: Recent insider sales by executives, including William Abbey and CAO Laura Kathleen Bartels, may attract attention, but they do not appear large enough on their own to change the company’s fundamentals. SEC insider filing SEC insider filing
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader market commentary notes that the AI trade may be cooling after a strong run, which could keep pressure on high-valuation chip names like Arm even if the growth story remains strong. Markets Rally, But Tech Stocks Get Left Behind as the AI Trade Falters
• Negative Sentiment: Arm’s valuation is being called stretched after a massive rally, and chip-sector weakness following Broadcom’s disappointing results is adding to the risk of a pullback. 2 Chip Stocks Extending Slide After Broadcom Earnings Bust

ARM Profile

Arm Limited (NASDAQ: ARM) is a global semiconductor IP company best known for designing energy-efficient processor architectures and related technologies that underpin a wide range of computing devices. Founded in 1990 as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple and VLSI Technology and headquartered in Cambridge, England, Arm develops the ARM instruction set architectures and core processor designs that chipmakers license and integrate into custom system-on-chip (SoC) products. The company operates a licensing and royalty business model rather than manufacturing chips itself.

Arm’s product portfolio includes CPU core families (such as Cortex and Neoverse lines), GPU and multimedia IP (Mali), neural processing units (Ethos) and a suite of system and physical IP blocks.