ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR $ARM Shares Sold by Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund trimmed its position in ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM - Free Report) by 88.5% during the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 36,624 shares of the company's stock after selling 280,745 shares during the quarter. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund's holdings in ARM were worth $5,540,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Rathbones Group PLC boosted its position in shares of ARM by 4,638.8% during the 4th quarter. Rathbones Group PLC now owns 500,043 shares of the company's stock worth $54,660,000 after acquiring an additional 489,491 shares in the last quarter. Paragon Capital Management Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of ARM during the 4th quarter worth about $826,000. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank raised its position in shares of ARM by 34.7% during the 4th quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 24,188 shares of the company's stock worth $2,644,000 after acquiring an additional 6,232 shares in the last quarter. Partners Group Holding AG purchased a new stake in ARM during the fourth quarter worth approximately $798,000. Finally, Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. lifted its stake in ARM by 13.5% during the fourth quarter. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. now owns 417,775 shares of the company's stock worth $45,667,000 after purchasing an additional 49,811 shares during the last quarter. 7.53% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

ARM has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Royal Bank Of Canada increased their price target on shares of ARM from $175.00 to $260.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. New Street Research downgraded shares of ARM from a "buy" rating to a "neutral" rating in a research report on Thursday, June 18th. Barclays upped their target price on shares of ARM from $250.00 to $360.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a report on Monday, June 1st. Raymond James Financial reiterated an "outperform" rating on shares of ARM in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, HSBC cut shares of ARM from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and boosted their price target for the company from $255.00 to $315.00 in a research report on Tuesday, July 14th. Seventeen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $297.65.

Insider Buying and Selling at ARM

In other ARM news, CFO Jason Child sold 31,920 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $226.54, for a total transaction of $7,231,156.80. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 174,232 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $39,470,517.28. This trade represents a 15.48% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider Charlotte Claire Eaton sold 7,805 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $290.01, for a total transaction of $2,263,528.05. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 5,000 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,450,050. The trade was a 60.95% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold 216,049 shares of company stock worth $52,101,605 in the last 90 days.

Key ARM News

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 Stock Down 8.1%

ARM opened at $224.89 on Thursday. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a 52 week low of $100.02 and a 52 week high of $452.70. The business's 50 day moving average is $331.09 and its two-hundred day moving average is $211.79. The firm has a market cap of $240.20 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 267.73, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 7.61 and a beta of 3.76.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data 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. The business had revenue of $1.29 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.26 billion. ARM had a return on equity of 12.43% and a net margin of 18.37%.The company's revenue was up 22.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.35 earnings per share. ARM has set its Q2 2027 guidance at 0.430-0.510 EPS. Equities analysts expect that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 1.12 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.

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