ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) Short Interest Update

ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) was the recipient of a large decline in short interest in February. As of February 27th, there was short interest totaling 14,825,255 shares, a decline of 13.5% from the February 12th total of 17,139,566 shares. Currently, 1.4% of the company’s stock are sold short. Based on an average trading volume of 3,442,708 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.3 days. Based on an average trading volume of 3,442,708 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.3 days. Currently, 1.4% of the company’s stock are sold short.

ARM Stock Up 5.1%

NASDAQ:ARM opened at $121.70 on Tuesday. ARM has a twelve month low of $80.00 and a twelve month high of $183.16. The firm has a market capitalization of $128.58 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 162.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 7.99 and a beta of 4.10. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $117.38 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $134.18.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 4th. The company reported $0.43 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 the consensus estimate of $1.23 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.39 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 26.3% compared to the same quarter last year. ARM has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 0.540-0.620 EPS. As a group, analysts anticipate that ARM will post 0.9 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Compound Planning Inc. increased its stake in shares of ARM by 4.6% during the 3rd quarter. Compound Planning Inc. now owns 1,569 shares of the company’s stock worth $222,000 after purchasing an additional 69 shares during the last quarter. Ritholtz Wealth Management lifted its stake in ARM by 3.0% in the 3rd quarter. Ritholtz Wealth Management now owns 2,439 shares of the company’s stock valued at $345,000 after purchasing an additional 70 shares during the last quarter. Rathbones Group PLC grew its holdings in ARM by 0.7% during the third quarter. Rathbones Group PLC now owns 10,552 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,493,000 after purchasing an additional 70 shares during the period. Nwam LLC grew its holdings in ARM by 4.3% during the third quarter. Nwam LLC now owns 1,711 shares of the company’s stock worth $242,000 after purchasing an additional 71 shares during the period. Finally, Kovack Advisors Inc. increased its position in ARM by 2.0% during the third quarter. Kovack Advisors Inc. now owns 3,602 shares of the company’s stock worth $510,000 after buying an additional 72 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 7.53% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Raymond James Financial initiated coverage on shares of ARM in a research note on Friday, November 21st. They set a “hold” rating for the company. Morgan Stanley cut their price objective on shares of ARM from $180.00 to $135.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, January 23rd. The Goldman Sachs Group cut shares of ARM from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating and reduced their target price for the stock from $160.00 to $120.00 in a report on Monday, December 15th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of ARM in a research report on Wednesday, January 21st. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company lowered their price target on shares of ARM from $160.00 to $150.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. Sixteen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $160.81.

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.