ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) Given “Neutral” Rating at Bank of America

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM)‘s stock had its “neutral” rating reissued by equities research analysts at Bank of America in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday,Benzinga reports. They presently have a $120.00 price objective on the stock. Bank of America‘s target price suggests a potential upside of 7.97% from the stock’s previous close.

Several other research analysts have also recently issued reports on ARM. UBS Group lowered their target price on shares of ARM from $200.00 to $195.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, November 6th. Citigroup cut shares of ARM from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Oddo Bhf set a $170.00 price objective on shares of ARM in a research note on Monday, January 5th. Raymond James Financial began coverage on ARM in a report on Friday, November 21st. They set a “hold” rating on the stock. Finally, Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of ARM in a report on Thursday, November 6th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Buy rating, nine have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $176.71.

ARM Stock Performance

ARM opened at $111.14 on Tuesday. ARM has a one year low of $80.00 and a one year high of $183.16. The company has a market cap of $117.42 billion, a P/E ratio of 142.49, a PEG ratio of 6.70 and a beta of 4.34. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $129.52 and its 200-day simple moving average is $143.65.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, November 5th. The company reported $0.39 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.33 by $0.06. The firm had revenue of $1.14 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.06 billion. ARM had a return on equity of 15.03% and a net margin of 18.81%.The firm’s revenue was up 34.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.30 earnings per share. ARM has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 0.370-0.450 EPS. As a group, analysts predict that ARM will post 0.9 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Trading of ARM

A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Defender Capital LLC. purchased a new position in shares of ARM in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $11,034,000. Willner & Heller LLC lifted its holdings in shares of ARM by 9.5% during the fourth quarter. Willner & Heller LLC now owns 11,258 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,231,000 after purchasing an additional 973 shares during the period. Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI grew its position in ARM by 252.2% in the 4th quarter. Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI now owns 32,624 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,566,000 after buying an additional 23,361 shares during the last quarter. Focus Financial Network Inc. increased its stake in ARM by 52.1% in the 4th quarter. Focus Financial Network Inc. now owns 4,011 shares of the company’s stock valued at $438,000 after buying an additional 1,374 shares during the period. Finally, SG Americas Securities LLC increased its stake in ARM by 1,283.2% in the 4th quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 265,608 shares of the company’s stock valued at $29,034,000 after buying an additional 246,406 shares during the period. 7.53% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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.