ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) Shares Gap Up – What’s Next?
by Mitch Edgeman · The Markets DailyARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM – Get Free Report)’s share price gapped up prior to trading on Monday . The stock had previously closed at $353.29, but opened at $389.95. ARM shares last traded at $388.6420, with a volume of 5,881,504 shares changing hands.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of equities analysts have weighed in on the stock. UBS Group dropped their target price on shares of ARM from $175.00 to $170.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. Benchmark reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of ARM in a report on Thursday, February 5th. KeyCorp reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of ARM in a research report on Thursday, February 5th. TD Cowen boosted their target price on ARM from $165.00 to $265.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price target on ARM from $180.00 to $145.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. Twenty analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, ARM currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $215.88.
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ARM Stock Performance
The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $199.27 and its 200 day simple moving average is $149.37. The stock has a market capitalization of $428.20 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 482.86, a P/E/G ratio of 12.83 and a beta of 3.77.
ARM (NASDAQ:ARM – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April 1st. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The firm had revenue of $1.49 billion for the quarter. ARM had a return on equity of 12.43% and a net margin of 18.37%. Analysts forecast that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 1.12 earnings per share for the current year.
Insider Transactions at ARM
In other ARM news, insider Spencer Collins sold 40,941 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.00, for a total transaction of $8,802,315.00. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, insider Richard Roy Grisenthwaite sold 24,339 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $209.15, for a total transaction of $5,090,501.85. Following the transaction, the insider owned 5,543 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,159,318.45. This represents 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. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 279,266 shares of company stock worth $57,502,031.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of ARM. Compound Planning Inc. increased its position in shares of ARM by 4.6% during the 3rd quarter. Compound Planning Inc. now owns 1,569 shares of the company’s stock worth $222,000 after purchasing an additional 69 shares during the last quarter. Rathbones Group PLC boosted its holdings in shares of ARM by 0.7% in the 3rd quarter. Rathbones Group PLC now owns 10,552 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,493,000 after buying an additional 70 shares during the last quarter. Kovack Advisors Inc. grew its stake in shares of ARM by 2.0% in the third quarter. Kovack Advisors Inc. now owns 3,602 shares of the company’s stock valued at $510,000 after buying an additional 72 shares in the last quarter. Murphy & Mullick Capital Management Corp increased its holdings in ARM by 9.1% during the third quarter. Murphy & Mullick Capital Management Corp now owns 926 shares of the company’s stock worth $135,000 after buying an additional 77 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Balboa Wealth Partners increased its holdings in ARM by 2.7% during the third quarter. Balboa Wealth Partners now owns 3,108 shares of the company’s stock worth $440,000 after buying an additional 83 shares during the last quarter. 7.53% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
About ARM
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.
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