ARM Holdings Options Trading: A Deep Dive into Market Sentiment

High-rolling investors have positioned themselves bearish on ARM Holdings ARM, and it's important for retail traders to take note. \This activity came to our attention today through Benzinga's tracking of publicly available options data. The identities of these investors are uncertain, but such a significant move in ARM often signals that someone has privileged information.

Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 16 options trades for ARM Holdings. This is not a typical pattern.

The sentiment among these major traders is split, with 37% bullish and 50% bearish. Among all the options we identified, there was one put, amounting to $32,274, and 15 calls, totaling $1,138,715.

What's The Price Target?

After evaluating the trading volumes and Open Interest, it's evident that the major market movers are focusing on a price band between $115.0 and $220.0 for ARM Holdings, spanning the last three months.

Volume & Open Interest Development

Looking at the volume and open interest is a powerful move while trading options. This data can help you track the liquidity and interest for ARM Holdings's options for a given strike price. Below, we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts, respectively, for all of ARM Holdings's whale trades within a strike price range from $115.0 to $220.0 in the last 30 days.

ARM Holdings Call and Put Volume: 30-Day Overview

Significant Options Trades Detected:

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. Off-the-shelf and architectural customers pay a royalty fee per chip shipped.

Following our analysis of the options activities associated with ARM Holdings, we pivot to a closer look at the company's own performance.

Current Position of ARM Holdings

• Currently trading with a volume of 1,722,889, the ARM's price is down by -2.0%, now at $170.65.
• RSI readings suggest the stock is currently may be overbought.
• Anticipated earnings release is in 56 days.

What The Experts Say On ARM Holdings

A total of 2 professional analysts have given their take on this stock in the last 30 days, setting an average price target of $161.5.

• An analyst from Goldman Sachs persists with their Buy rating on ARM Holdings, maintaining a target price of $143.
• Maintaining their stance, an analyst from B of A Securities continues to hold a Buy rating for ARM Holdings, targeting a price of $180.

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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