Laura Kathleen Bartels Sells 11,306 Shares of ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) Stock

ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) CAO Laura Kathleen Bartels sold 11,306 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $392.70, for a total value of $4,439,866.20. Following the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 12,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $4,765,414.50. This represents a 48.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website.

ARM Stock Down 12.8%

ARM stock opened at $342.93 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $362.31 billion, a PE ratio of 408.25, a P/E/G ratio of 14.29 and a beta of 3.78. The business has a 50 day moving average of $224.64 and a 200-day moving average of $157.98. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a 12-month low of $100.02 and a 12-month high of $427.99.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, April 1st. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The company had revenue of $1.49 billion during the quarter. ARM had a return on equity of 12.43% and a net margin of 18.37%. On average, research analysts expect that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 1.12 earnings per share for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

ARM has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Barclays upped their target price on ARM from $250.00 to $360.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday. Raymond James Financial reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of ARM in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Susquehanna upped their target price on ARM from $170.00 to $210.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a report on Thursday, April 16th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their target price on ARM from $255.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada upped their target price on ARM from $175.00 to $260.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Twenty research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $226.92.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On ARM

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Rathbones Group PLC lifted its position in shares of ARM by 4,638.8% during the fourth 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. purchased a new stake in shares of ARM during the fourth quarter worth $826,000. Lansdowne Partners UK LLP purchased a new stake in shares of ARM during the third quarter worth $8,486,000. Hyperion Asset Management Ltd purchased a new stake in shares of ARM during the third quarter worth $202,980,000. Finally, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank lifted its position in shares of ARM by 34.7% during the fourth 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. 7.53% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Trending Headlines about ARM

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Arm is gaining credibility as a key AI infrastructure player after management said customers including ByteDance and Oracle are using Arm-based CPUs in data centers, supporting the case for stronger licensing and royalty growth. Arm names ByteDance and Oracle as users of its AI data centre CPUs
• Positive Sentiment: Arm is also benefiting from NVIDIA’s latest AI PC and data-center push, which reinforces demand for Arm’s architecture and could boost future adoption across the semiconductor ecosystem. Arm Stock Jumps As Chip Designer Joins Nvidia PC Effort
• Neutral Sentiment: Recent insider sales by executives, including William Abbey and CAO Laura Kathleen Bartels, may attract attention, but they do not appear large enough on their own to change the company’s fundamentals. SEC insider filing SEC insider filing
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader market commentary notes that the AI trade may be cooling after a strong run, which could keep pressure on high-valuation chip names like Arm even if the growth story remains strong. Markets Rally, But Tech Stocks Get Left Behind as the AI Trade Falters
• Negative Sentiment: Arm’s valuation is being called stretched after a massive rally, and chip-sector weakness following Broadcom’s disappointing results is adding to the risk of a pullback. 2 Chip Stocks Extending Slide After Broadcom Earnings Bust

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.