Arm Holdings hit a fresh all-time high on Monday, touching $427.99 before settling around $412.55–$424.40. The move puts the stock up an eye-watering 277% year-to-date.
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The chip designer now carries a market cap of roughly $453 billion, a P/E ratio of 491, and a beta of 3.77 — meaning it moves fast in both directions.
Over the past 12 months, ARM has climbed 190%, with a 52-week low of just $100.02 sitting far in the rearview mirror.
Wall Street has been busy with the price target calculator. Mizuho led the recent wave, raising its target from $425 to $500 on June 8th, citing ARM’s expanding AGI CPU platform work with Oracle and ByteDance, plus progress in agentic AI through RTX Spark.
Wells Fargo moved its target from $255 to $410, while RBC went from $175 to $260. Rosenblatt bumped theirs from $175 to $270.
Despite the upgrades, the consensus average price target sits at $239 — well below where the stock is currently trading. Of 27 analysts covering ARM, 20 rate it a Buy, six say Hold, and one says Sell.
InvestingPro notes that 19 analysts have revised earnings estimates upward ahead of the next reporting period.
While analysts are bullish, insiders have been heading for the exits. CFO Jason Child sold 31,920 shares on May 20th at an average price of $226.54, pocketing around $7.23 million. That cut his stake by 15.48%.
Insider Charlotte Claire Eaton followed on May 21st, selling 4,000 shares at $282.77 — a 33.88% reduction in her position.
In total, insiders offloaded 301,338 shares worth $66 million over the past three months. Both sales were executed under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plans.
On the institutional side, Venture Visionary Partners LLC cut its ARM position by 46.9% in Q4, trimming to 19,035 shares worth roughly $2.08 million. A handful of smaller funds did open new positions during the same period.
ARM last reported quarterly earnings on April 1st, posting $0.60 EPS on revenue of $1.49 billion, with a return on equity of 12.43% and net margin of 18.37%. Analysts currently forecast full-year EPS of $1.12.
ARM CEO Rene Haas recently flagged the complexity around AI chip export restrictions to China, noting CPUs are so broadly used that distinguishing AI-capable versions from general-purpose ones is a real challenge for regulators.
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