Jason Child Sells 10,400 Shares of ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) Stock

Arm Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) CFO Jason Child sold 10,400 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $300.00, for a total transaction of $3,120,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 153,442 shares in the company, valued at $46,032,600. This represents a 6.35% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Jason Child also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Thursday, August 27th, Jason Child sold 10,400 shares of ARM stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $255.33, for a total transaction of $2,655,432.00.

ARM Trading Down 0.2%

ARM stock traded down $0.64 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $332.56. 6,959,052 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 7,791,226. The company has a market capitalization of $355.20 billion, a PE ratio of 342.85, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 9.58 and a beta of 3.89. Arm Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a twelve month low of $100.02 and a twelve month high of $452.70. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $262.29 and a 200 day simple moving average of $252.38.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, July 30th. The company reported $0.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.40 by $0.05. ARM had a net margin of 20.25% and a return on equity of 12.24%. The business had revenue of $1.29 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.26 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.35 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 22.4% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Arm Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 1.15 earnings per share for the current year.

ARM News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Reports that Meta is partnering with Arm on its “Muse” custom AI processor, potentially targeting $2 billion in revenue, have strengthened the case for Arm’s expansion from smartphone royalties into data-center and AI infrastructure. Meta’s Muse Highlights Arm’s Growing Role in AI Infrastructure
• Positive Sentiment: CEO Rene Haas said chip demand is “off the charts” and expressed increasing confidence that Arm can exceed its $2 billion AGI CPU revenue goal. Investors see potential upside as agentic AI increases demand for CPU-based inference and data-center capacity. Arm Just Got a Major Vote of Confidence From Its CEO
• Positive Sentiment: Arm’s architecture could benefit from data-center expansion: the company expects more than four times today’s CPU capacity per gigawatt as AI workloads grow. This supports the long-term investment thesis and explains recent buying interest. Arm Gains 1.5% as Agentic AI Multiplies CPU Cores
• Neutral Sentiment: Unusually heavy options activity indicates heightened speculative interest, but it does not establish a clear directional signal. ARM Sees Unusually Large Options Volume
• Negative Sentiment: After a reported 36% jump, Arm trades at roughly 143 times forward earnings; the supplied market data also shows a trailing P/E above 340. Analysts caution that the AI growth narrative may already be largely reflected in the share price, encouraging profit-taking and making the stock vulnerable to disappointment. Arm Just Jumped 36% Now Its Valuation Is Raising Eyebrows
• Negative Sentiment: Supply constraints at semiconductor foundries and the uncertainty of shifting from a royalty model toward selling complete silicon could restrict near-term execution. Comparisons with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing also highlight that Arm designs chips but does not control their production. Arm vs. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research analysts have commented on ARM shares. Jefferies Financial Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $320.00 target price on shares of ARM in a report on Monday, July 20th. Morgan Stanley boosted their price target on ARM from $202.00 to $212.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Rosenblatt Securities dropped their price target on ARM from $270.00 to $250.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, July 31st. Bank of America restated a “neutral” rating on shares of ARM in a research note on Thursday, July 30th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $255.00 price objective on shares of ARM in a report on Thursday, July 30th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eighteen have given a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $305.72.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On ARM

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. GAMMA Investing LLC boosted its holdings in shares of ARM by 18.7% during the second quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 406 shares of the company’s stock valued at $144,000 after acquiring an additional 64 shares during the period. Allworth Financial LP increased its holdings in shares of ARM by 2.9% in the 2nd quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 2,269 shares of the company’s stock worth $804,000 after acquiring an additional 65 shares during the period. MCF Advisors LLC lifted its position in ARM by 11.7% in the 2nd quarter. MCF Advisors LLC now owns 764 shares of the company’s stock valued at $271,000 after purchasing an additional 80 shares during the last quarter. AdvisorNet Financial Inc lifted its position in ARM by 6.2% in the 1st quarter. AdvisorNet Financial Inc now owns 1,681 shares of the company’s stock valued at $254,000 after purchasing an additional 98 shares during the last quarter. Finally, TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. boosted its stake in ARM by 0.5% during the 2nd quarter. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. now owns 18,674 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,309,000 after purchasing an additional 102 shares during the period. 7.53% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

ARM Company Profile

Arm Holdings plc is a semiconductor and software intellectual property company headquartered in Cambridge, England. Rather than manufacturing chips, Arm develops processor architectures and technology designs that it licenses to semiconductor companies, device manufacturers and other technology businesses for use in their own products.

Arm’s portfolio includes central processing unit (CPU) architectures and processor cores, graphics processing units (GPUs), systems IP, interconnect technology, security solutions and related software and development tools.