Arm Holdings
The chip-IP licensor — every smartphone and most AI server CPUs run on Arm's instruction set architecture.
Previous close $278.65
52-week high
$439.46
52-week low
$85.82
YTD change
+143.56%
The 30-second take
Arm's business model is royalty + licence on its CPU instruction sets — capital-light, ~95% gross margin. The AI angle: Nvidia's Grace CPUs, AWS Graviton, and increasingly data-center CPUs are Arm-based, displacing x86. Re-IPO'd at $51 in Sep 2023, peaked above $180 within a year. In interviews, anchor on: royalty rate per chip (the V9 architecture upgrade is the price-mix story), data-center share-shift from x86 (the multi-year structural tailwind), and the SoftBank ownership overhang.
Historical reference points
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- 2023 IPOSep 2023$51.00+447.92%
- 2024 highJul 2024$188.00+48.64%
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