ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) Given Consensus Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by Analysts

Shares of ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) have received a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” from the twenty-six ratings firms that are currently covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating and nineteen have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1 year price target among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $168.1667.

ARM has been the topic of several analyst reports. HSBC raised ARM from a “reduce” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their price objective for the company from $90.00 to $205.00 in a research report on Friday, March 20th. Guggenheim boosted their price target on ARM from $201.00 to $240.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their price target on ARM from $125.00 to $140.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday. Oddo Bhf set a $170.00 price objective on ARM in a research report on Monday, January 5th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group downgraded ARM from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating and reduced their price objective for the stock from $160.00 to $120.00 in a report on Monday, December 15th.

Key ARM News

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Arm unveiled the AGI CPU (first-ever in-house chip) and gave long-range revenue guidance that repositions the company from licensor to direct silicon seller — a transformational growth narrative. Arm’s New Gambit: Building Chips to Challenge the AI Titans
• Positive Sentiment: Meta signed on as the launch/customer partner for the new CPU, which materially de‑risks commercialization and provides an early scale buyer. Arm jumps 13% in premarket after saying first in-house chip set to generate $15 billion in revenue
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts have moved quickly to upgrade and raise targets (Needham upgraded to Buy with a $200 target; multiple firms raised PTs), signaling higher earnings and valuation expectations if execution succeeds. Arm Stock Upgraded After Move from Blueprints to Silicon. A ‘Credible AI Play’ Is Born.
• Neutral Sentiment: Technical/market metrics show momentum—Relative Strength rating jumped—indicating institutional interest, but that can also amplify volatility after a big gap-up. Arm Holdings Stock Sees Relative Strength Rating Jump To 87
• Neutral Sentiment: Unusually large call-option activity accompanied the rally — bullish interest but also a potential source of short-term gamma-driven moves. (Market commentary summarized across reports.)
• Negative Sentiment: Major outlets and strategists warn execution risk: moving from IP licensing to manufacturing/sales is complex and the stock’s high valuation already prices in substantial success; failure or delays would pressure shares. Arm’s Timing Is Good, but Big Chip Move Now Has to Go Perfectly
• Negative Sentiment: After Wednesday’s surge (big one‑day gains), profit-taking and overbought indicators triggered a pullback today — typical after a rapid re‑rating. Arm jumps as new AI chip to drive billions annual revenue

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Capital Research Global Investors bought a new position in ARM during the third quarter valued at approximately $243,098,000. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. grew its position in ARM by 2,623.5% in the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 1,671,787 shares of the company’s stock worth $182,743,000 after purchasing an additional 1,610,403 shares during the period. Hyperion Asset Management Ltd purchased a new stake in ARM during the 3rd quarter valued at $202,980,000. Schroder Investment Management Group lifted its holdings in shares of ARM by 41.7% during the 2nd quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group now owns 4,745,957 shares of the company’s stock valued at $767,611,000 after buying an additional 1,396,684 shares during the period. Finally, Employees Provident Fund Board bought a new position in shares of ARM during the 4th quarter valued at $120,241,000. 7.53% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

ARM Stock Performance

Shares of ARM stock opened at $154.80 on Friday. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $121.71 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $134.31. The stock has a market capitalization of $163.55 billion, a PE ratio of 206.40, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 10.84 and a beta of 4.11. ARM has a 52-week low of $80.00 and a 52-week high of $183.16.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 4th. The company reported $0.43 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.41 by $0.02. The firm 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 for the quarter was up 26.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.39 earnings per share. ARM has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 0.540-0.620 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that ARM will post 0.9 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.