The British processor architecture developer, Arm, enjoyed an increase in share prices by 48% at the closure of yesterday’s trading session in the US, following the release of a quarterly report that exceeded analysts’ estimates. As a result, the company’s capitalization surpassed $116 billion, with investor optimism also aiding parent corporation SoftBank to report a 15.29% increase in its share price.
According to CNBC, SoftBank, which owns more than 90% of Arm shares, nominally increased the value of its assets by $34 billion, purely due to the rising price of Arm shares, although it cannot sell these shares yet due to restrictions of the autumn Initial Public Offering (IPO). These restrictions will be lifted in March, allowing SoftBank to profit from selling Arm shares. Two years have passed since the NVIDIA deal to buy Arm for $40 billion fell through. Considering the current capitalization of Arm exceeding $116 billion, SoftBank’s decision to list Arm shares on the American stock exchange following the unsuccessful assets sale to NVIDIA can be deemed profitable.
Investors exhibit high optimism towards the future of Arm’s business, as the company’s share price is nearly 90 times the expected per share income. In comparison, this gap for NVIDIA does not exceed 33 times, even though NVIDIA’s shares have tripled in price over the past year. Meanwhile, AMD prides itself with a multiplier of 46, occupying the ‘middle ground’.
Similarly, parent corporation SoftBank also reported better than expected results yesterday, with its shares initially seeing an increase of 11.06%, with an additional increase today morning. For the first time in four quarters, SoftBank reported a profit of $6.36 billion for the last quarter, almost five times the analysts’ estimates. An impressive turnaround given that in the previous financial year, the Vision Fund investment fund was causing losses for SoftBank, but in the past quarter, it contributed to an asset value increase of over $4 billion.
