ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) CEO Rene Haas Sells 9,299 Shares of Stock

ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) CEO Rene Haas sold 9,299 shares of ARM stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $160.85, for a total value of $1,495,744.15. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 273,680 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $44,021,428. This represents a 3.29% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

ARM Stock Performance

Shares of ARM opened at $162.33 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $134.07 and a two-hundred day moving average of $134.77. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a one year low of $95.32 and a one year high of $183.16. The stock has a market cap of $171.50 billion, a P/E ratio of 216.44, a P/E/G ratio of 7.18 and a beta of 3.33.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The company reported $0.43 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates 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 during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.23 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.39 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 26.3% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts predict that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 0.9 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

ARM has been the subject of a number of research reports. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of ARM in a research report on Wednesday, January 21st. Benchmark reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of ARM in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. KeyCorp reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of ARM in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. Guggenheim lifted their price objective on ARM from $201.00 to $240.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, March 25th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC upgraded ARM from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $200.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 26th. Eighteen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, ARM has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $174.83.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On ARM

A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of ARM. Amundi raised its stake in shares of ARM by 24.8% during the 1st quarter. Amundi now owns 11,804 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,153,000 after buying an additional 2,345 shares during the last quarter. Empowered Funds LLC raised its holdings in ARM by 28.8% in the 1st quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 4,887 shares of the company’s stock worth $522,000 after purchasing an additional 1,094 shares during the period. Schnieders Capital Management LLC. raised its holdings in ARM by 9.0% in the 2nd quarter. Schnieders Capital Management LLC. now owns 2,430 shares of the company’s stock worth $393,000 after purchasing an additional 200 shares during the period. Bank of Nova Scotia acquired a new position in ARM in the 2nd quarter worth about $556,000. Finally, State Street Corp raised its holdings in ARM by 14.7% in the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 441,445 shares of the company’s stock worth $71,399,000 after purchasing an additional 56,656 shares during the period. 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: Large, unusual call buying — Investors purchased roughly 83,917 call options (about 52% above normal volume), a near-term bullish signal that options traders expect upside or are hedging for positive news. (Options flow can amplify intraday moves.)
• Positive Sentiment: Arm participated with chip partners in funding driverless‑car startup Wayve, highlighting ecosystem support and potential new markets for Arm IP in automotive and autonomous systems. This partnership underscores growth avenues beyond smartphones and datacenters. Chip giants AMD, Qualcomm and Arm back driverless car startup Wayve with fresh funds
• Positive Sentiment: Design wins / ecosystem adoption signal — coverage of a Framework 13 laptop offering a 12‑core ARM option illustrates continued OEM interest in Arm-based PCs, which supports long-term royalty and IP licensing demand. Framework 13 Gets a 12-Core ARM Upgrade: What You Need to Know
• Neutral Sentiment: Broad coverage / company profile pieces are circulating (e.g., CNN’s ARM coverage), which keeps the name in investors’ radars but doesn’t by itself change fundamentals. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (CNN)
• Neutral Sentiment: Unrelated “Arm” headlines — an open‑source robotic arm project uses the word “arm” but is not connected to Arm Holdings’ business; this is noise rather than company news. reBot Arm B601-DM – An open-source 6+1 DoF robotic arm for embodied AI and teleoperation applications
• Negative Sentiment: Insider sale — CEO Rene A. Haas sold 9,299 shares under a pre-arranged 10b5-1 plan (about $1.5M). The trade is disclosed in an SEC filing; 10b5-1 sales are often routine but can be perceived negatively by some investors. SEC filing for Rene A. Haas Form 4
• Negative Sentiment: Negative commentary from media personalities — coverage noting skepticism (e.g., Jim Cramer expressing reservations about recent brokerage coverage) can create short-term headwinds by influencing retail sentiment. Jim Cramer Isn’t Impressed With Morgan Stanley’s Arm (ARM) Coverage

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.