ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) CEO Sells $1,495,744.15 in Stock

ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) CEO Rene Haas sold 9,299 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $160.85, for a total transaction of $1,495,744.15. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 273,680 shares in the company, valued at approximately $44,021,428. The trade was a 3.29% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

ARM Price Performance

Shares of ARM opened at $166.73 on Friday. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $134.93 and its 200-day moving average is $134.92. The stock has a market capitalization of $176.15 billion, a P/E ratio of 222.31, a P/E/G ratio of 7.32 and a beta of 3.33. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a 12-month low of $95.32 and a 12-month high of $183.16.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 5th. The company reported $0.43 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.41 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $1.24 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.23 billion. ARM had a net margin of 17.15% and a return on equity of 14.01%. The business’s revenue was up 26.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.39 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 0.9 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have recently issued reports on ARM. Morgan Stanley reaffirmed an “equal weight” rating and issued a $150.00 price objective (up from $135.00) on shares of ARM in a research note on Tuesday, April 7th. Evercore lowered their price objective on shares of ARM from $215.00 to $170.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. Jefferies Financial Group set a $170.00 price objective on shares of ARM in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. Guggenheim raised their target price on shares of ARM from $201.00 to $240.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 25th. Finally, Barclays reiterated an “overweight” rating and issued a $165.00 target price on shares of ARM in a report on Thursday, March 26th. Eighteen analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $174.83.

Trending Headlines about ARM

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Unusual options activity — Roughly 83,917 call options were bought (about 52% above normal), a near‑term bullish indicator that option traders are positioning for upside or hedging around positive catalysts.
• Positive Sentiment: Ecosystem expansion — Arm joined chip partners in backing driverless‑car startup Wayve, highlighting potential new royalty/licensing markets in automotive and autonomy. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: OEM design momentum — Coverage of a Framework 13 laptop offering a 12‑core ARM option signals continued PC OEM interest in Arm‑based CPUs, supporting long‑term licensing/revenue potential. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Ongoing media coverage — Broad profiles (e.g., CNN) keep ARM in the spotlight but don’t directly change fundamentals. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Headline noise — An unrelated open‑source “robotic arm” project uses the word “arm” but has no bearing on Arm Holdings’ business. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst backdrop — The consensus remains a moderate buy with a mean target near $175, and recent quarterly results showed revenue and EPS beats in February, supporting the longer‑term thesis. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Insider sale — CEO Rene Haas sold 9,299 shares for ~$1.5M under a pre‑arranged Rule 10b5‑1 plan. Such planned sales are often routine, but they can create short‑term selling pressure or negative perception among some investors. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Market skepticism — Public commentary (e.g., Jim Cramer noting reservations about recent coverage) can weigh on retail sentiment and amplify short‑term volatility. Read More.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Pacific Heights Asset Management LLC increased its stake in ARM by 32.1% in the 3rd quarter. Pacific Heights Asset Management LLC now owns 185,000 shares of the company’s stock valued at $26,176,000 after buying an additional 45,000 shares during the period. Paragon Capital Management Inc. acquired a new position in ARM in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $826,000. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. acquired a new position in ARM in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $6,219,000. Voya Investment Management LLC increased its stake in ARM by 15.5% in the 3rd quarter. Voya Investment Management LLC now owns 202,443 shares of the company’s stock valued at $28,644,000 after buying an additional 27,228 shares during the period. Finally, Lansdowne Partners UK LLP acquired a new position in ARM in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $8,486,000. 7.53% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

ARM Company 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.