ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) Stock Price Down 6.6% – Time to Sell?

ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARMGet Free Report)’s stock price was down 6.6% during mid-day trading on Thursday . The stock traded as low as $309.74 and last traded at $315.28. Approximately 7,526,496 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 16% from the average daily volume of 8,964,300 shares. The stock had previously closed at $337.47.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have commented on the company. Wells Fargo & Company raised their price objective on ARM from $255.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday, June 1st. HSBC upgraded ARM from a “reduce” rating to a “buy” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $90.00 to $205.00 in a report on Friday, March 20th. Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price target on shares of ARM from $175.00 to $260.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Susquehanna boosted their price target on shares of ARM from $170.00 to $210.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 16th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price objective on shares of ARM from $125.00 to $150.00 and gave the stock a “sell” rating in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Nineteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $279.83.

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ARM Price Performance

The firm has a market cap of $336.74 billion, a P/E ratio of 375.33, a P/E/G ratio of 12.88 and a beta of 3.76. The company has a fifty day moving average of $302.53 and a 200-day moving average of $187.70.

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

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CFO Jason Child sold 31,920 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $226.54, for a total transaction of $7,231,156.80. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 174,232 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $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 through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider William Abbey sold 6,566 shares of ARM stock in a transaction on Monday, June 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $402.72, for a total value of $2,644,259.52. Following the sale, the insider owned 20,563 shares in the company, valued at $8,281,131.36. The trade was a 24.20% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 248,205 shares of company stock valued at $57,741,572.

Institutional Trading of ARM

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Capital Research Global Investors bought a new position in shares of ARM during the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $243,098,000. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. raised its holdings in shares of 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 bought a new stake in shares of ARM in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $202,980,000. Employees Provident Fund Board purchased a new position in ARM in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $120,241,000. Finally, Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership lifted its stake in ARM by 1,203.5% in the first quarter. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership now owns 945,152 shares of the company’s stock valued at $142,983,000 after purchasing an additional 872,644 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 7.53% of the company’s stock.

About ARM

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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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