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ARM Holdings shares drop

Article By: ,  Financial Analyst
June 29, 2015 11:36 AM

UK-based ARM Holdings plc – a company engaged in the design of microprocessors, physical intellectual property and related technology and software, as well as the sale of development tools – saw stock values drop more than five per cent on Friday. The decrease came after analysts downgraded the company's stock from 'market perform' to 'underperform'. The firm's price target was also slashed to 800p from 1,000p.

This was in sharp contrast to the FTSE 100 company's status being upgraded at the beginning of the year in anticipation of a rise in material earnings – it was expected that a migration to ARM v8 would boost royalty revenue growth and stabilise Semi Content per Device.

According to experts, the drop in the performance is in part due to a lull in smartphone sales. Since ARM manufactures components for brands like Apple and Samsung, a slowdown in sales of the devices that was observed in the first quarter of 2015 could affect ARM – and now it's believed that the drop in smartphone sales will be the first of a series, rather than an inventory correction.

The Telegraph reports that brokers are also warning that ARM's stock is above fair value and there is risk of earnings disappointment in the second half of this year and next year.

First quarter results

ARM released its latest earnings data on April 21st. At the time, the chip-maker reported $0.32 (£0.20) earnings per share for the quarter and the company had revenue of $348.20 million for the period – higher than the consensus estimate of $341.40 million.

During the same period last year, the company reported $0.05 earnings per share. Revenue was up 21.9 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2014.

In a press release that accompanied the company's Q1 results, the company said: "Arm has made an encouraging start to 2015 with more leading companies choosing to deploy ARM technology in their products. Assuming that the macroeconomic backdrop remains supportive of consumer spending, we expect dollar revenues for the full-year 2015 to be at least in line with current market expectations."

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