Decoding ARM Holdings's Options Activity: What's the Big Picture?

Whales with a lot of money to spend have taken a noticeably bearish stance on ARM Holdings.

Looking at options history for ARM Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) we detected 16 trades.

If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 43% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 56% with bearish.

From the overall spotted trades, 2 are puts, for a total amount of $61,141 and 14, calls, for a total amount of $2,114,922.

Predicted Price Range

Analyzing the Volume and Open Interest in these contracts, it seems that the big players have been eyeing a price window from $136.0 to $190.0 for ARM Holdings during the past quarter.

Analyzing Volume & Open Interest

Examining the volume and open interest provides crucial insights into stock research. This information is key in gauging liquidity and interest levels for ARM Holdings's options at certain strike prices. Below, we present a snapshot of the trends in volume and open interest for calls and puts across ARM Holdings's significant trades, within a strike price range of $136.0 to $190.0, over the past month.

ARM Holdings Option Activity Analysis: Last 30 Days

Biggest Options Spotted:

About ARM Holdings

Arm Holdings is the IP owner and developer of the ARM architecture (ARM stands for Acorn RISC Machine), which is used in 99% of the world's smartphone CPU cores, and it also has high market share in other battery-powered devices like wearables, tablets, or sensors. Arm licenses its architecture for a fee, offering different types of licenses depending on the flexibility the customer needs. Customers like Apple or Qualcomm buy architectural licenses, which allows them to modify the architecture and add or delete instructions to tailor the chips to their specific needs. Other clients directly buy off-the-shelf designs from Arm. Both off-the-shelf and architectural customers pay a royalty fee per chip shipped.

Present Market Standing of ARM Holdings

• With a trading volume of 3,933,792, the price of ARM is up by 2.75%, reaching $145.51.
• Current RSI values indicate that the stock is may be overbought.
• Next earnings report is scheduled for 72 days from now.

Professional Analyst Ratings for ARM Holdings

5 market experts have recently issued ratings for this stock, with a consensus target price of $102.0.

• Maintaining their stance, an analyst from Susquehanna continues to hold a Neutral rating for ARM Holdings, targeting a price of $85.
• An analyst from New Street Research has revised its rating downward to Neutral, adjusting the price target to $110.
• Consistent in their evaluation, an analyst from Mizuho keeps a Buy rating on ARM Holdings with a target price of $100.
• An analyst from Goldman Sachs has decided to maintain their Buy rating on ARM Holdings, which currently sits at a price target of $95.
• Maintaining their stance, an analyst from Keybanc continues to hold a Overweight rating for ARM Holdings, targeting a price of $120.

Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.

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