ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARM)

Semiconductors · Cambridge, United Kingdom · Founded 1990

$150.0B

Market Cap

$3.2B

Revenue

7,000

Employees

$0.5B

Net Income

📊 Key Statistics for ARM Holdings plc (ARM)

Market capitalization: $150.0 billion
Annual revenue: $3.2 billion
Net income: $0.5 billion
Employees: 7,000
Sector: Technology
Headquarters: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Founded: 1990

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📋 About ARM Holdings plc

ARM designs the processor architecture used in virtually every smartphone on Earth — over 99% of mobile chips use ARM's instruction set. The company doesn't manufacture chips; it licenses designs to Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and hundreds of others who build on ARM's architecture. SoftBank took ARM public again in 2023.

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💰 How ARM Holdings plc Makes Money

License processor designs and collect royalties on every chip shipped using ARM architecture. Two revenue streams: upfront license fees (companies pay to access ARM designs) and per-unit royalties (a few cents per chip shipped). With 30+ billion ARM-based chips shipped annually, those cents add up to billions.

📜 Key Milestones

Founded in 1990 as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology in Cambridge, UK. ARM went public in 1998, was acquired by SoftBank for $32 billion in 2016, and re-IPO'd on NASDAQ in September 2023 at a $54 billion valuation — the largest IPO of 2023.

📊 Financial Overview

Market Capitalization	$150.0B
Annual Revenue	$3.2B
Net Income	$0.5B
Profit Margin	16%
Revenue per Employee	$457143K
Stock Exchange	NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol	ARM

Financial data is approximate and based on most recent annual filings.

💡 Did You Know?

ARM's architecture powers 99% of smartphones, but the AI boom is the growth story — ARM-based chips are increasingly used in data centers (AWS Graviton, NVIDIA Grace) and AI inference. Apple's M-series chips (which demolished Intel in performance-per-watt) are ARM-based. Every iPhone, every Android phone, every Raspberry Pi runs on ARM.

📝 Analyst Take

ARM is a toll booth on computing — every chip shipped pays a royalty. The AI and data center expansion could transform ARM from a mobile-only story into a compute-everywhere story. The valuation prices in perfection, but the architectural shift from x86 to ARM in servers is a multi-decade tailwind.

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