What's Going On With Arm Holdings Stock Thursday?
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Nov 07 2024
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Source: Benzinga
Financial Performance: Arm Holdings reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of 30 cents per share and revenue of $844 million, both exceeding analyst expectations. The company also highlighted strong growth in royalty revenue driven by the adoption of Armv9 technology.
Analyst Upgrades and Partnerships: Following the earnings report, several analysts raised their price targets for Arm shares, with some maintaining positive ratings. Additionally, Arm announced a strategic partnership with Panasonic Automotive Systems to enhance automotive software development.
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Analyst Views on ARM
Wall Street analysts forecast ARM stock price to fall
24 Analyst Rating
19 Buy
4 Hold
1 Sell
Strong Buy
Current: 396.340
Low
120.00
Averages
160.58
High
201.00
Current: 396.340
Low
120.00
Averages
160.58
High
201.00
About ARM
Arm Holdings plc is a United Kingdom-based company. The Company is engaged in the design of central processing units (CPUs) and compute platforms for semiconductor chips. It develops and licenses CPU products and related technology. Its cloud and data center solutions include Arm AGI CPU and Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems. The Arm Agentic Generalized Infrastructure (AGI) CPU is a production-ready system on a chip (SoC) for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, delivering compute at scale. The Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) are pre-validated, performance-optimized compute platforms designed to accelerate infrastructure silicon development. The Company's primary markets include smartphone applications, processors and other chips used in mobile phones, consumer electronics, networking equipment, cloud and data center servers, automotive applications, Internet of Things (loT) and other embedded computing devices.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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