Friday, March 20, 2026

"Arm’s stock could rocket 50% as Wall Street wakes up to a ‘game-changing’ trend, analyst says"

There's a reason Nvidia really, really wanted to buy Arm. 

From MarketWatch, March 20:

Arm increasingly benefits from central processing units that are becoming ‘indispensable’ in AI data centers 

Wall Street isn’t giving Arm Holdings enough credit for a big business transformation, according to an analyst.  

Arm ARM +3.62%, a chip designer, has been broadening well beyond smartphones and now stands to capitalize even more on the booming market for server central processing units, HSBC’s Frank Lee wrote in a note to clients.

That “game-changing” transition is “still being undervalued by the market,” Lee argued, but he sees room for Arm’s stock to climb more than 50% as the company’s momentum becomes better understood. It’s up 3.9% in Friday morning action, bringing its year-to-date gains to about 23%. 

Lee double-upgraded Arm’s stock on Friday, lifting his rating to buy from reduce and meaningfully boosting his price target to $205 from $90. He wrote that agentic artificial intelligence will spur even greater demand for CPUs....

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