Why Arm Holdings Stock Lost 34% in July
Arm stock pulled back after a surge in the second quarter. Analysts revised their price targets on valuation concerns.

Arm Holdings plc is a leading technology firm that conceptualizes, engineers, and licenses core processing unit (CPU) designs and complementary technologies. These ...
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Est. EPS $0.55 · Revenue $1.53B · 17 analysts
Est. EPS $0.76 · Revenue $1.88B · 7 analysts
Est. EPS $2.23 · Revenue $6.06B · 18 analysts
Est. EPS $0.60 · Revenue $1.71B · 15 analysts
EPS $0.25 · Revenue $1.29B
EPS $0.85 · Revenue $4.92B
EPS $0.21 · Revenue $1.24B
EPS $0.22 · Revenue $1.14B
EPS $0.12 · Revenue $1.05B
EPS $0.75 · Revenue $4.01B
| Metric | Latest | YoYYoY means Year-over-Year. It compares the latest annual value with the previous annual value to show long-term trend strength. | QoQQoQ means Quarter-over-Quarter. It compares the latest quarter with the immediately previous quarter to show short-term momentum changes. |
|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueThe total money that came through the front door from selling things, before paying a single bill. Think of it as the grand total of every credit card swipe from customers. (YoY compares this year to last year's performance, while QoQ compares the current three months to the previous three). | $4.9B | +22.8% | -13.5% |
| Net IncomeThe absolute bottom line. If the company paid every single supplier, employee, banker, and tax collector, this is the actual money left in their pocket at the end of the day. | $904.0M | +14.1% | -13.7% |
| Gross MarginThe basic markup. If they sell a $100 pair of sneakers, this percentage tells you how much of that price tag is profit right after paying for the rubber and shoelaces, but before paying for things like store rent or TV commercials. | +92.5% | -2.5% | +4.4% |
| Operating MarginThe 'day job' efficiency score. Out of every dollar a customer spends, this shows how many cents the company keeps after making the product AND paying for all the everyday corporate overhead (like salaries, marketing, and keeping the lights on). | +18.5% | -10.6% | -74.3% |
| Net MarginThe final take-home percentage. When you strip away every conceivable cost, tax, and interest payment, this is the exact number of cents the company truly gets to keep from every dollar in sales. | +18.4% | -7.0% | -0.3% |
| Free Cash FlowThe holy grail of corporate cash. It's the spendable, physical money left over after the business pays for its daily operations AND buys the big, expensive upgrades (like new factories or servers) it needs to survive. This is the 'free' money they can use to pay dividends or buy back stock. | $979.0M | +450.0% | +308.2% |
| FCF MarginThe ultimate cash conversion rate. It shows how good the company is at turning regular sales directly into cold, hard, spendable cash. A high percentage means the business is an absolute cash-printing machine. | +19.9% | +347.9% | +371.9% |
| Debt / EquityThe financial risk gauge. It compares how much of the company's empire was built using borrowed money (loans) versus the owners' own money (shareholders). A high number means they are heavily leveraged and playing a riskier game; a low number means they are playing it safe. | 5.5% | +6.0% | +1.9% |
| Current RatioThe 12-month survival check. It simply compares the cash they have right now (plus things they can quickly turn into cash) against the immediate bills they absolutely must pay this year. A score above 1 means they have enough in the wallet to cover the upcoming bills without panicking. | 6.00x | +15.3% | -12.4% |
| Total AssetsThe absolute size of the company's empire. It bundles together absolutely everything of value they own—from the cash in the register and the inventory in the warehouse, to the software patents in the vault and the factories on the ground. | $10.7B | +19.8% | +4.6% |
| Metric | Annual (A vs E) | Annual Surprise | Quarter (A vs E) | Quarter Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS Surprise | 0.85 vs 1.75 | -51.5% | 0.25 vs 0.55 | -54.7% |
| Revenue Surprise | $4.9B vs $4.9B | +0.3% | $1.3B vs $1.5B | -15.6% |
| Date | Executive | Title | Security | Side | Shares | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Child Jason | officer: Chief Financial Officer | Ordinary Shares | D | 10,400 | $255.33 |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Bartels Laura Kathleen | officer: Chief Accounting Officer | Restricted Stock Units | D | 862 | — |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Bartels Laura Kathleen | officer: Chief Accounting Officer | Restricted Stock Units | D | 819 | — |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Bartels Laura Kathleen | officer: Chief Accounting Officer | Ordinary Shares | A | 819 | — |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Bartels Laura Kathleen | officer: Chief Accounting Officer | Ordinary Shares | A | 862 | — |
Operator: Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Arm First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Webcast and Conference Call. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Ian Thornton, Vice President of Investor Relations. Ian Thornton: Thank you, and welcome to our first quarter fiscal '27 earnings call. On the call are Rene Haas, Arm's Chief Executive Officer; and Jason Child, Arm's Chief Financial Officer. Today's call contains forward-looking information about the company and its financial results. While these statements represent our best current judgment, our business is subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Important risk factors that may affect our business and future financial results are described in our annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Arm assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. We will also refer to non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in our shareholder letter as can a discussion of certain projected non-GAAP financial measures that we are not able to reconcile without unreasonable efforts and supplemental financial information. Our earnings materials are available at investors.arm.com. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Rene. Rene Haas: Thank you, Ian, and welcome, everyone. Arm delivered a record first quarter and a strong start to fiscal 2027. Our results reflect growing demand for the Arm compute platform as AI expands across cloud infrastructure, edge devices and the physical world. Revenue reached $1.29 billion, up 22% year-over-year, driven by record first quarter licensing and royalty revenue. Royalty revenue grew 22% to $715 million. Licensing revenue grew 23% to $574 million and non-GAAP EPS increased 29% to $0.45, above the high end of our guidance. AI is changing where and how compute happens. We're seeing that in the data center, where the transition to Arm continues to accelerate. And we're seeing it beyond the data center as AI expands into PCs, smartphones and physical AI applications. Across each of these markets, customers are increasingly standardizing on the Arm compute platform. These trends are the driving demand for the Arm AGI CPU. We introduced the Arm AGI CPU in March to give customers another way to deploy the Arm compute platform. Since that time, we've made significant progress. Initial product has now been delivered to multiple customers, and we have secured the manufacturing capacity needed to support the $1 billion opportunity we outlined last quarter across fiscal 2027 and fiscal 2028. Demand now exceeds $2 billion as we continue to add new customers, including multiple customers in the U.S. and China, while the overall value of our pipeline has continued to strengthen. We're also working closely with …
| Name | Title | Compensation | Gender | Year Born | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rene Anthony Andrada Haas | Chief Executive Officer & Director | USD 5,071,000 | Male | 1962 | Active |
Spencer Collins | Executive VP, Chief Legal Officer, Company Secretary & Head of Corporate Development | — | Male | 1982 | Active |
Ami Badani | Chief Marketing Officer | — | Female | 1979 | Active |
Richard Grisenthwaite | Executive Vice President & Chief Architect | — | Male | 1969 | Active |
Laura Bartels | Chief Accounting Officer | — | — | — | Active |
Jason E. Child | Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | — | Male | 1969 | Active |
Jeffrey Thomas Kvaal | Vice President & Head of Investor Relations | — | Male | — | Active |
William Abbey | Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer | — | Male | 1971 | Active |
Charlotte Eaton | Chief People Officer | — | Female | 1984 | Active |
Eric Hayes | Executive Vice President of Operations | — | Male | — | Active |
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