Liontrust Investment Partners LLP Purchases 202,410 Shares of ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR $ARM

Liontrust Investment Partners LLP increased its position in ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) by 139.7% during the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 347,339 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 202,410 shares during the period. Liontrust Investment Partners LLP’s holdings in ARM were worth $52,545,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. CreativeOne Wealth LLC grew its position in shares of ARM by 5.0% in the 4th quarter. CreativeOne Wealth LLC now owns 1,830 shares of the company’s stock worth $200,000 after buying an additional 87 shares during the period. AdvisorNet Financial Inc lifted its position in ARM by 6.2% during the 1st quarter. AdvisorNet Financial Inc now owns 1,681 shares of the company’s stock valued at $254,000 after acquiring an additional 98 shares during the period. Moors & Cabot Inc. lifted its position in ARM by 5.3% during the 3rd quarter. Moors & Cabot Inc. now owns 2,050 shares of the company’s stock valued at $290,000 after acquiring an additional 103 shares during the period. Heritage Trust Co boosted its stake in ARM by 5.5% during the fourth quarter. Heritage Trust Co now owns 2,045 shares of the company’s stock worth $224,000 after acquiring an additional 107 shares in the last quarter. Finally, TrueMark Investments LLC boosted its stake in ARM by 1.4% during the first quarter. TrueMark Investments LLC now owns 7,592 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,149,000 after acquiring an additional 107 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 7.53% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities analysts have weighed in on ARM shares. Barclays raised their target price on shares of ARM from $250.00 to $360.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday, June 1st. Raymond James Financial reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of ARM in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. HSBC downgraded ARM from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and upped their price target for the stock from $255.00 to $315.00 in a research note on Tuesday, July 14th. Morgan Stanley lifted their price objective on ARM from $202.00 to $212.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday. Finally, KeyCorp boosted their target price on ARM from $300.00 to $430.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 14th. Eighteen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $286.17.

ARM Price Performance

ARM stock opened at $242.85 on Friday. ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR has a one year low of $100.02 and a one year high of $452.70. The stock has a market capitalization of $259.38 billion, a PE ratio of 250.36, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 6.99 and a beta of 3.76. The business’s fifty day moving average is $329.98 and its 200 day moving average is $212.71.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 29th. The company reported $0.45 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.40 by $0.05. ARM had a return on equity of 12.56% and a net margin of 20.25%.The company had revenue of $1.29 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.26 billion. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.35 EPS. ARM’s revenue for the quarter was up 22.4% on a year-over-year basis. ARM has set its Q2 2027 guidance at 0.430-0.510 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that ARM Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR will post 1.12 EPS for the current fiscal year.

ARM News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting ARM this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Arm reported fiscal Q1 2027 revenue of $1.29 billion, up 22.4% year over year and above analysts’ estimates of approximately $1.26 billion. Adjusted earnings per share of $0.45 also exceeded the $0.40 consensus. Arm shares jump after Q1 revenue, profit beat estimates
• Positive Sentiment: Management issued second-quarter EPS guidance of $0.43 to $0.51, above the $0.39 analyst consensus, while revenue guidance also exceeded expectations. The outlook reflects sustained demand for Arm-based processors in AI data centers and cloud computing. Arm forecasts quarterly revenue above estimates on AI-driven chip demand
• Positive Sentiment: Data-center royalty revenue reportedly doubled, while demand for Arm’s AI and AGI CPU roadmap strengthened. Analysts said the company remains a key beneficiary of long-term AI infrastructure spending, prompting Citi to reaffirm its Buy rating and $300 price target. Arm remains key AI infrastructure beneficiary despite softer handset outlook, Citi says
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst views remain mixed. Needham reiterated Buy with a $255 target, while TD Cowen and RBC maintained positive ratings but reduced their targets to $350 and $340, respectively. Morgan Stanley raised its target to $212 but retained an Equal Weight rating, implying execution and valuation concerns.
• Negative Sentiment: Smartphone market weakness and memory-price pressures are expected to constrain near-term royalty growth, with second-quarter royalty growth guided at about 13%. Investors also remain cautious because ARM trades at a very high earnings multiple, leaving limited room for disappointing results. Memory Prices Hit Arm’s Royalties as Stock Falls 4%

Insider Activity at ARM

In other news, CFO Jason Child sold 31,920 shares of ARM stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $226.54, for a total value of $7,231,156.80. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 174,232 shares in the company, valued at $39,470,517.28. The trade was a 15.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider Charlotte Claire Eaton sold 7,805 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, May 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $290.01, for a total transaction of $2,263,528.05. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 5,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,450,050. The trade was a 60.95% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 216,049 shares of company stock worth $52,101,605.

ARM 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.