Compound Planning Inc. Buys Shares of 2,596 ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR $ARM

Compound Planning Inc. bought a new position in shares of ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm bought 2,596 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $393,000.

Other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Syntax Research Inc. purchased a new position in shares of ARM in the first quarter valued at $30,000. FWL Investment Management LLC purchased a new stake in ARM during the 2nd quarter worth about $34,000. Cassaday & Co Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in ARM during the 1st quarter worth about $40,000. Mcguire Capital Advisors Inc. bought a new position in ARM in the 4th quarter worth about $30,000. Finally, Navalign LLC bought a new position in ARM in the 4th quarter worth about $33,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 7.53% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have weighed in on the company. Benchmark began coverage on ARM in a report on Thursday, July 16th. They set a “hold” rating for the company. Morgan Stanley reissued an “equal weight” rating and issued a $150.00 price target (up from $135.00) on shares of ARM in a report on Tuesday, April 7th. Rosenblatt Securities raised their price objective on shares of ARM from $175.00 to $270.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Barclays boosted their price objective on shares of ARM from $250.00 to $360.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday, June 1st. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein set a $500.00 target price on shares of ARM in a report on Wednesday, June 17th. Seventeen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, ARM currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $297.65.

ARM Stock Down 8.1%

Shares of NASDAQ ARM opened at $224.89 on Thursday. The firm has a market capitalization of $240.20 billion, a P/E ratio of 267.73, a P/E/G ratio of 7.61 and a beta of 3.76. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $331.09 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $211.79. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a twelve month low of $100.02 and a twelve month high of $452.70.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 29th. The company reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.40 by $0.05. ARM had a return on equity of 12.43% and a net margin of 18.37%.The firm had revenue of $1.29 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.26 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.35 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 22.4% compared to the same quarter last year. ARM has set its Q2 2027 guidance at 0.430-0.510 EPS. As a group, research analysts anticipate that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 1.12 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at ARM

In other ARM news, CFO Jason Child sold 31,920 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $226.54, for a total value of $7,231,156.80. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 174,232 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $39,470,517.28. The trade was a 15.48% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider Charlotte Claire Eaton sold 7,805 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $290.01, for a total transaction of $2,263,528.05. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider directly owned 5,000 shares in the company, valued at $1,450,050. The trade was a 60.95% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last three months, insiders sold 216,049 shares of company stock valued at $52,101,605.

Key Stories Impacting ARM

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Arm reported record first-quarter revenue of $1.29 billion, up 22% year over year, while earnings per share reached $0.45 versus the $0.40 analyst consensus. Both results exceeded expectations. Arm Holdings beats Q1 estimates, shares fall in after-hours
• Positive Sentiment: The company forecast second-quarter EPS of $0.43 to $0.51, above the $0.39 consensus estimate, and projected quarterly revenue above Wall Street expectations. The outlook reflects continued demand for Arm-based designs in AI data centers. Arm forecasts quarterly revenue above estimates on AI-driven chip demand
• Positive Sentiment: Demand from hyperscale cloud companies, including Alphabet and Amazon, is supporting Arm’s licensing revenue and royalty growth as increasingly complex AI and data-center chips are shipped. Arm shares dive after hours despite forecasts above estimates
• Neutral Sentiment: Management published its fiscal 2027 first-quarter shareholder letter, providing the formal results and outlook for investors. Arm Holdings plc Reports Results for the First Quarter
• Negative Sentiment: Despite the earnings and guidance beats, shares fell nearly 7% in after-hours trading because investors viewed the sales outlook as insufficiently impressive relative to the market’s very high expectations for AI growth. Analysts also noted that Arm’s premium valuation leaves little room for an merely solid quarter. Qualcomm and Arm Forecasts Fail to Impress Investors

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.