Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund Cuts Stock Position in ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR $ARM

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund cut its stake in shares of ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) by 88.5% in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 36,624 shares of the company’s stock after selling 280,745 shares during the period. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund’s holdings in ARM were worth $5,540,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Several other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Syntax Research Inc. purchased a new position in ARM in the 1st quarter valued at $30,000. Mcguire Capital Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in ARM during the 4th quarter worth $30,000. Navalign LLC purchased a new position in ARM during the 4th quarter worth $33,000. FWL Investment Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of ARM in the 2nd quarter worth $34,000. Finally, Motiv8 Investments LLC acquired a new stake in shares of ARM in the 4th quarter worth $38,000. 7.53% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Trending Headlines about ARM

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Arm reported record first-quarter revenue of $1.29 billion, up 22% year over year, while earnings per share reached $0.45 versus the $0.40 analyst consensus. Both results exceeded expectations. Arm Holdings beats Q1 estimates, shares fall in after-hours
• Positive Sentiment: The company forecast second-quarter EPS of $0.43 to $0.51, above the $0.39 consensus estimate, and projected quarterly revenue above Wall Street expectations. The outlook reflects continued demand for Arm-based designs in AI data centers. Arm forecasts quarterly revenue above estimates on AI-driven chip demand
• Positive Sentiment: Demand from hyperscale cloud companies, including Alphabet and Amazon, is supporting Arm’s licensing revenue and royalty growth as increasingly complex AI and data-center chips are shipped. Arm shares dive after hours despite forecasts above estimates
• Neutral Sentiment: Management published its fiscal 2027 first-quarter shareholder letter, providing the formal results and outlook for investors. Arm Holdings plc Reports Results for the First Quarter
• Negative Sentiment: Despite the earnings and guidance beats, shares fell nearly 7% in after-hours trading because investors viewed the sales outlook as insufficiently impressive relative to the market’s very high expectations for AI growth. Analysts also noted that Arm’s premium valuation leaves little room for an merely solid quarter. Qualcomm and Arm Forecasts Fail to Impress Investors

ARM Stock Down 8.1%

NASDAQ:ARM opened at $224.89 on Thursday. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $331.09 and its 200-day simple moving average is $211.79. The stock has a market cap of $240.20 billion, a PE ratio of 267.73, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 7.61 and a beta of 3.76. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a fifty-two week low of $100.02 and a fifty-two week high of $452.70.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 29th. The company reported $0.45 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.40 by $0.05. ARM had a net margin of 18.37% and a return on equity of 12.43%. The firm had revenue of $1.29 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.26 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.35 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 22.4% compared to the same quarter last year. ARM has set its Q2 2027 guidance at 0.430-0.510 EPS. Equities analysts anticipate that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 1.12 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Morgan Stanley reiterated an “equal weight” rating and set a $150.00 price target (up from $135.00) on shares of ARM in a research note on Tuesday, April 7th. Bank of America raised their price objective on shares of ARM from $335.00 to $460.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday, June 23rd. HSBC lowered ARM from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and lifted their price objective for the company from $255.00 to $315.00 in a report on Tuesday, July 14th. KeyCorp boosted their target price on ARM from $300.00 to $430.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 14th. Finally, Guggenheim increased their target price on ARM from $240.00 to $255.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. Seventeen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, ARM currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $297.65.

Insider Activity at ARM

In other ARM news, CAO Laura Kathleen Bartels sold 11,306 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $392.70, for a total value of $4,439,866.20. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer directly owned 12,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,765,414.50. This trade represents a 48.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, insider William Abbey sold 10,887 shares of ARM stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $224.14, for a total transaction of $2,440,212.18. Following the sale, the insider owned 43,353 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $9,717,141.42. The trade was a 20.07% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold a total of 216,049 shares of company stock valued at $52,101,605 in the last ninety days.

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.