ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) CFO Jason Child Sells 21,280 Shares of Stock

ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) CFO Jason Child sold 21,280 shares of ARM stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, April 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.00, for a total value of $3,830,400.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 153,426 shares in the company, valued at approximately $27,616,680. This represents a 12.18% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible 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 Wednesday, March 25th, Jason Child sold 21,280 shares of ARM stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $148.37, for a total value of $3,157,313.60.

ARM Stock Up 4.1%

NASDAQ ARM opened at $204.61 on Friday. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a twelve month low of $100.02 and a twelve month high of $210.80. The firm has a market capitalization of $216.17 billion, a PE ratio of 272.81, a P/E/G ratio of 8.86 and a beta of 3.33. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $140.00 and its 200 day moving average is $136.04.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The company reported $0.43 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.41 by $0.02. ARM had a return on equity of 14.01% and a net margin of 17.15%.The company had revenue of $1.24 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.23 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.39 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 26.3% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts anticipate that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 0.85 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Morgan Stanley raised its stake in shares of ARM by 1.2% in the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 3,783,006 shares of the company’s stock worth $413,521,000 after purchasing an additional 45,314 shares during the last quarter. Invesco Ltd. raised its stake in shares of ARM by 36.9% in the fourth quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 2,426,850 shares of the company’s stock worth $265,279,000 after purchasing an additional 654,727 shares during the last quarter. Coatue Management LLC raised its stake in shares of ARM by 1.8% in the fourth quarter. Coatue Management LLC now owns 2,300,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $251,413,000 after purchasing an additional 40,174 shares during the last quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP raised its stake in shares of ARM by 41.6% in the fourth quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 2,149,159 shares of the company’s stock worth $234,925,000 after purchasing an additional 631,576 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Schroder Investment Management Group raised its stake in shares of ARM by 11.0% in the fourth quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group now owns 1,891,310 shares of the company’s stock worth $206,739,000 after purchasing an additional 187,035 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 7.53% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting ARM

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Arm unveiled an AGI CPU with 136 Neoverse V3 cores aimed at AI agents — a material product development that supports ARM’s move into high?performance IP and in?house silicon, strengthening its addressable market in datacenter/AI chips. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: AMI firmware validation for Arm AGI CPU platforms — validation by a firmware partner expedites customer deployment and reduces integration friction, supporting faster revenue realization from new silicon. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: Susquehanna raised its price target to $210 and analysts are increasingly bullish, reflecting expectations for ARM’s CPU royalties and expansion beyond smartphones into datacenter/AI. Analyst upgrades can lift sentiment and demand for the shares. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: Investor Bill Baruch publicly bought ARM, citing the pivot to AI chips and a recent Meta deal as catalysts — fresh insider/investor buying signals conviction from market participants. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: High-profile retail/media endorsement — Jim Cramer recommended buying ARM on his Lightning Round, which can drive short?term retail interest and volume. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: CEO Rene Haas taking an added role at SoftBank Group International signals closer strategic alignment with SoftBank, potentially smoothing partnerships and capital access. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Stock hit all?time highs ahead of Q1 earnings — markets often re?rate ahead of results; this raises expectations but also increases the risk of a post?earnings pullback if guidance disappoints. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Coverage pieces and idea features (Zacks, Yahoo) are highlighting ARM alongside other tech winners — positive for visibility but mixed impact on fundamentals. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Articles questioning valuation (“Is the valuation justified?”) signal growing debate over how much AI upside is already priced in — keeps sentiment sensitive to execution. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: CFO Jason Child sold 21,280 shares under a pre?arranged Rule 10b5?1 plan (12% reduction of his holding) — insider selling can be perceived negatively, though the 10b5?1 disclosure and continued large ownership temper the signal. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst comparison (Zacks) favors peers like Coherent for faster near?term AI datacenter growth — highlights competitive risk and potential relative underperformance if peers outpace ARM on near?term metrics. Article Title

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

ARM has been the topic of several analyst reports. Citigroup downgraded ARM from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 13th. Mizuho boosted their target price on ARM from $160.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, April 6th. Raymond James Financial raised ARM from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $166.00 target price on the stock in a report on Wednesday, March 25th. KeyCorp reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of ARM in a report on Thursday, February 5th. Finally, Oddo Bhf set a $170.00 target price on ARM in a report on Monday, January 5th. Eighteen equities research 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 MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $174.83.

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.