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Arm Holdings plc (ARM) Q1 FY2027

CIK 0001973239 · Nasdaq · Period: Q1 FY2027 (ended 2026-06-30, 6-K accession 0001973239-26-000114) · Annual report: FY2026 20-F (filed 2026-05-26, accession 0001973239-26-000097)

PeriodQ2 FY2027Q1 FY2027

Archived record for Q1 FY2027. The current period is Q2 FY2027.

Published

MetricAmountvs. year ago
Revenue$1,289,000,000up 22.4%
Net income$270,000,000up 107.7%
Diluted EPS$0.25up 108.3%
Operating income$91,000,000down 20.2%
Income from equity investments$128,000,000up 3,100.0%

Company details

NameArm Holdings Plc /Uk
TickerARM
CIK0001973239
ExchangeNasdaq
StateUnited Kingdom
IncorporationUnited Kingdom
SIC3674
OfficeManufacturing
IndustrySemiconductors & Related Devices
Latest period coveredQ1 FY2027, ended 2026-06-30, 6-K, accession 0001973239-26-000114
Fiscal year end03/31 (MM/DD)

AI synthesis of six filings for Arm Holdings plc

Arm reports in US dollars, so all amounts below are as the company reported them. Arm's fiscal year ends on March 31: "fiscal 2026" is the year ended March 31, 2026, and the current quarter, Q1 fiscal 2027, is the three months ended June 30, 2026. Each American Depositary Share represents one ordinary share.

Business

From the Annual Report on Form 20-F for fiscal 2026 (year ended March 31, 2026), accession 0001973239-26-000097.

Arm designs the CPU architecture and processor designs that most of the world's chips are built on. It licenses them to semiconductor companies, device makers (OEMs) and cloud service providers, and it has recently started selling chips of its own. Customers pay a license fee for access to Arm's CPU designs, GPU and NPU accelerators, system IP, pre-integrated compute subsystems (CSS) and software tools. They then pay a per-unit royalty on substantially every Arm-based chip they ship. That royalty is typically a percentage of the chip's average selling price or a fixed fee per unit, and it rises as more Arm technology goes into a chip. Royalties are the larger revenue stream: in fiscal 2026, royalty revenue was $2,613 million and license and other revenue $2,307 million, out of total revenue of $4,920 million. Because a chip can ship for many years, each license tends to produce a long tail of recurring royalties. In March 2026 Arm moved into production silicon with the Arm AGI CPU, a data center processor it designed itself. Production is expected by the end of calendar 2026.

The installed base is very large. Customers had reported more than 350 billion Arm-based chips shipped cumulatively as of March 31, 2026, and more than 22 million developers work on the platform. Arm's share of mobile applications processors, the main chip in a smartphone, has been above 99% for many years, and that market produced about 43% of royalty revenue in fiscal 2026. Arm now organizes its end markets into three "AI domains":

  • Edge AI: smartphones, industrial IoT and embedded devices, and consumer electronics such as digital TVs, tablets, laptops, XR headsets and wearables.
  • Cloud AI: server chips, data processing units and smart network cards used by cloud providers (including chips they design in-house on Arm), networking equipment, and HPC and enterprise servers.
  • Physical AI: automotive and robotics, including drones and humanoid, medical and industrial robots.

Customers can license Arm IP in several ways. All of them carry per-chip royalties:

  • Arm Total Access: a periodic fee for a portfolio of products that includes Arm's most advanced processors, with no extra fee at tape-out. Aimed at large, established chip companies.
  • Arm Flexible Access: a low annual portfolio fee for older products, plus a single-use license fee once a design reaches tape-out. Aimed at start-ups and smaller teams.
  • Technology License Agreements (TLA): a fixed fee for a single CPU or other design.
  • Architecture License Agreements (ALA): a fee for the right to design a custom CPU that is compatible with the Arm instruction set.

Royalties are booked in the quarter in which customers ship chips. They are partly estimated from market and sales trends, then corrected the following quarter when licensees' royalty reports arrive.

Two related parties account for a large share of revenue. Arm China is the exclusive distributor of Arm IP licenses to customers in the PRC under an intellectual property license agreement (IPLA) that runs to April 23, 2048 and then renews automatically for 10-year periods. Arm China operates independently of Arm. Arm holds a 10% non-voting interest in Acetone Limited, whose main asset is a 48.2% stake in Arm China. Revenue from the Arm China relationship was about 16% of total revenue in fiscal 2026 (17% in fiscal 2025, 21% in fiscal 2024), and IPLA revenue was $790.6 million. SoftBank Group, Arm's controlling shareholder, owned about 86.4% of Arm's ordinary shares as of May 21, 2026. A SoftBank Group affiliate is also a large customer: revenue from licensing and services under Arm's consulting agreement with SoftBank Group was $704.4 million in fiscal 2026, up from $145.5 million in fiscal 2025.

Arm's main architectural competitors are x86 and the free, open-source RISC-V architecture, which several of Arm's own customers support. Arm calls itself an engineering-first company: about 84% of its 9,584 employees at March 31, 2026 worked in engineering, and it owned or co-owned about 8,600 issued patents with about 2,750 applications pending. On August 26, 2025 it sold its Artisan foundation IP business (standard cell libraries, memory compilers and general-purpose I/Os) to Cadence Design Systems, booking a $131.0 million pre-tax gain.

Arm was founded in 1990 as a joint venture of Acorn Computers, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology. It was listed in London and on Nasdaq from 1998 until SoftBank Group took it private in 2016. Its ADSs returned to Nasdaq in an initial public offering in September 2023, in which a shareholder sold the shares and Arm received no proceeds.

Risk factors

From the fiscal 2026 Form 20-F, accession 0001973239-26-000097.

  • Customer concentration and dependence on SoftBank-related revenue. The top five customers, including Arm China and SoftBank Group, accounted for about 57% of fiscal 2026 revenue (56% in fiscal 2025), and Arm China alone for about 16%. Arm says part of its near-term revenue depends on commercial arrangements with SoftBank Group and its affiliates, and that reducing, delaying or ending them could hurt results. Concentration also gives key customers bargaining power. Some contracts, for example, entitle customers to Arm's newest products as soon as any other customer gets them.
  • Moving into silicon puts Arm in competition with its own licensees. With the Arm AGI CPU, Arm now sells directly to hyperscale, cloud and AI-infrastructure customers. That can put it in direct competition with chip companies that license its IP. Those licensees could cut back their relationships, move to x86 or RISC-V, hold back roadmap information or demand better terms. Silicon may also have different margins, revenue-recognition patterns and sales cycles from the licensing business. Separately, Arm has agreed to arrange for third-party semiconductor products to be supplied to a customer, with purchase commitments of about $100 million over the next 12 months that it expects to grow materially. This exposes Arm to supplier default, order cancellations and inventory risk.
  • Competition from x86, RISC-V and AI accelerators. If RISC-V keeps gaining support, customers could switch to it. Customers' own AI accelerators could move workloads away from the CPU and shrink the market Arm earns royalties on. AI tools could also make it cheaper to port software written for Arm to competing instruction sets.
  • Qualcomm litigation. Qualcomm is a major customer and accounted for 9% of fiscal 2026 revenue. On September 30, 2025, the District of Delaware ruled for Qualcomm in Arm's suit over the Nuvia architecture license, and Arm has appealed to the Third Circuit. Qualcomm's own suit claims that Arm failed to meet delivery obligations under Qualcomm's architecture license and breached its technology license agreement, and it includes tort and anti-competition claims. It now also covers Arm Limited, and trial is expected in the fourth calendar quarter of 2026. Arm warns the litigation could affect its relationship with, and revenue from, Qualcomm.
  • PRC exposure and Arm China. The PRC accounted for about 18% of fiscal 2026 revenue (19% in fiscal 2025, 22% in fiscal 2024). Arm depends on Arm China for reliable and timely financial information, because Arm China's own reports determine what it pays Arm. U.S. and PRC trade and national-security measures, including successive U.S. export-control rules on advanced computing, have limited and could further limit business with PRC customers.
  • Industry cycles and royalty economics. Demand follows the cyclical semiconductor and electronics markets, where chip prices usually fall over a product generation. Arm's royalty per chip also generally declines as volumes rise, down to an agreed minimum. Manufacturing is concentrated in East Asia, especially Taiwan, so geopolitical escalation there could disrupt chip supply.
  • Controlled-company and conflict risks. With about 86.4% ownership, SoftBank Group can generally decide shareholder votes, and Arm relies on Nasdaq controlled-company governance exemptions. SoftBank Group may invest in or partner with Arm's competitors or customers' competitors. Advisory work Arm does for SoftBank Group under the consulting agreement takes executive and engineering time.
  • Lumpy, estimate-driven results. License revenue swings with the timing and size of large license agreements. Royalty revenue depends on estimates that are corrected the following quarter.

Management's discussion, fiscal 2026

From the fiscal 2026 Form 20-F (Item 5), accession 0001973239-26-000097, except where another filing is named.

Fiscal 2026 revenue rose 23% to $4,920 million from $4,007 million. License and other revenue rose 25% ($468 million) to $2,307 million. Management attributed the increase to continued strong demand for Arm IP, the timing and size of several high-value license agreements, and revenue flowing through from backlog. Royalty revenue rose 21% ($445 million) to $2,613 million because of a richer mix of products that carry higher royalty rates per chip, such as Armv9. The growth came disproportionately from related parties (Arm China, equity-method investees and SoftBank-controlled entities). Related-party revenue rose 82% ($676 million) to $1,499 million, mainly from a $591 million (141%) increase in related-party license and other revenue. Revenue from external customers grew 7% to $3,421 million: a 20% rise in external royalties outweighed a 9% fall in external license and other revenue. The Arm AGI CPU had no material effect on fiscal 2026 revenue. Customers outside the U.S. provided about 64% of revenue, up from 57%.

Cost of sales was flat at $121 million, leaving gross profit of $4,799 million. Research and development rose 34% ($705 million) to $2,776 million. Management attributed this to investment in next-generation products such as the Arm AGI CPU, which drove higher headcount, share-based compensation and cloud and IT spending, partly offset by larger R&D tax credits. Selling, general and administrative expense rose 13% to $1,115 million. Operating income was $900 million, up from $831 million. Below operating income:

  • Other non-operating income was $132 million, mostly the Artisan sale gain plus foreign-exchange gains.
  • Equity investments produced $14 million of income, against a $237 million loss in fiscal 2025 that included a $246 million fair-value loss on Ampere.
  • Income tax swung to a $253 million expense (21.9% effective rate) from a $72 million benefit.

Net income was $904 million, against $792 million in fiscal 2025, and diluted EPS was $0.85 against $0.75. In its fiscal fourth-quarter shareholder letter (6-K, accession 0001973239-26-000062), Arm reported record non-GAAP EPS of $1.77 for the year and called fiscal 2026 its third consecutive year of more than 20% revenue growth since going public.

Operating cash flow rose to $1,524 million from $397 million. Investing activities used $325 million, including higher capital spending on data centers, offices and computer hardware, offset by $127 million of proceeds from the Artisan sale and $205 million from selling or liquidating equity investments. Financing activities used $548 million, mainly because withholding-tax payments on vested share awards rose $409 million after Arm moved to a full withhold-to-cover method. At March 31, 2026 Arm held $2,751 million of cash and cash equivalents and $850 million of short-term investments. It had about $1,057 million of non-cancelable purchase obligations with terms of 12 months or longer, running through 2036, and $549 million of operating lease and $62 million of finance lease obligations.

Current quarter, Q1 fiscal 2027 (three months ended June 30, 2026)

From the quarterly report on Form 6-K, accession 0001973239-26-000114 (interim financial statements, notes and MD&A), and the shareholder letter furnished as Exhibit 99.2 to Form 6-K, accession 0001973239-26-000113.

Revenue. Arm called this a record first quarter. Revenue rose 22% to $1,289 million from $1,053 million:

  • Royalties rose 22% to $715 million. The drivers were wider use of products with higher royalty rates per chip (Armv9 and Arm CSS) and more Arm-based chips deployed in data centers. The shareholder letter says data center royalties more than doubled year over year.
  • License and other revenue rose 23% to $574 million. The drivers were continued demand for Arm IP, the timing and size of several high-value license agreements, and contributions from backlog.

External-customer revenue grew 24% and related-party revenue 18%. Within related parties, revenue from SoftBank Group's affiliate under the consulting agreement rose to $192.9 million from $126.1 million. IPLA revenue from Arm China fell to $189.4 million from $201.0 million: license revenue from Arm China declined on the timing of large agreements, while its royalties rose. By customer headquarters, Japan grew to $276 million from $154 million and Korea to $117 million from $69 million. The U.S. was roughly flat at $388 million and the PRC slipped to $200 million from $209 million. About 70% of revenue came from outside the U.S., up from 64%.

Profitability. Gross margin held at 97.2%. Operating expenses rose 28% to $1,162 million, faster than revenue:

  • Research and development rose 29% to $838 million, reflecting investment in next-generation products, engineering headcount, share-based compensation, cloud and IT, and depreciation.
  • Selling, general and administrative expense rose 22% to $317 million.
  • Share-based compensation rose to $343 million from $241 million.

As a result, GAAP operating income fell to $91 million from $114 million, and operating margin fell to 7.1% from 10.8%. Net income still more than doubled, to $270 million from $130 million, and diluted EPS rose to $0.25 from $0.12. Two items below operating income explain the gap. Income from equity investments was $128 million, against $4 million a year earlier, mainly $125.6 million of fair-value gains on stakes in publicly listed companies; Arm also bought another $67.9 million of Raspberry Pi Holdings plc shares during the quarter. Income tax was a $17 million benefit, against a $16 million expense a year earlier. On Arm's non-GAAP basis, operating income was $531 million (41.2% margin, up from 39.1%), net income $480 million and diluted EPS $0.45 against $0.35, above the top of its $0.40 ± $0.04 guidance. The non-GAAP measures exclude share-based compensation, employer taxes on share awards net of R&D incentives, restructuring and other operating items, equity-investment income, and the related tax effects.

Cash and balance sheet. Operating cash flow was $902 million, against $332 million a year earlier, and non-GAAP free cash flow was $665 million against $150 million. Arm said free cash flow benefited from favorable timing of receivables collections and tax payments. Part of the operating cash flow gain is timing:

  • Receivables produced a $389 million favorable swing.
  • Other liabilities produced a $370 million favorable swing, mainly payroll taxes on vested shares. At June 30 these employee-related payroll taxes and payables stood at $375 million, mostly tied to restricted share units that vested in the quarter, to be paid the following quarter.

Capital expenditure was $197 million. Financing outflows of $326 million were mostly $278 million of withholding tax paid on vested shares. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaled $3,888 million at June 30, 2026. Annualized contract value, Arm's measure of committed license fees, rose 13% to $1,732 million. Remaining performance obligations were $2,122.6 million, about 24% of which Arm expects to recognize within 12 months. Starting this quarter, Arm no longer reports remaining performance obligations or the count of Total Access and Flexible Access licenses in its shareholder letter, saying these have become less relevant now that it sells production silicon.

Arm AGI CPU and data center momentum (shareholder letter). Arm said initial AGI CPU product has been delivered to multiple customers. It has secured manufacturing capacity for the $1 billion opportunity across fiscal 2027 and fiscal 2028 that it outlined the previous quarter, and customer demand now exceeds $2 billion over those two years. New customers include several in the U.S. and China, and Arm said its confidence in beating the $1 billion figure has increased. Shipments of Arm Neoverse data center cores have passed 1.5 billion, and the most recent 500 million took nine months. The letter also cites customer milestones built on Arm:

  • NVIDIA's Vera CPU entering full production, and NVIDIA's RTX Spark agentic PC built on Arm CSS.
  • A multi-year AWS agreement to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 cores for Meta.
  • Microsoft's Azure Cobalt 200 virtual machines built on Arm Neoverse CSS.
  • Qualcomm's planned Arm-based Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU.

Other developments in the quarter.

  • In April 2026, Arm amended an agreement with a cloud computing web services provider, raising its total purchase commitment by $305.0 million through 2029.
  • Arm ended an agreement with Arm China for outsourced services, booking $6.8 million of contract termination costs.
  • Arm granted CEO Rene Haas a one-time Value Creation Plan award of 425,000 performance share units. The award vests only if specified market-capitalization milestones are reached by March 31, 2031, in tranches through April 1, 2033. It was conditional on shareholders approving a revised remuneration policy, which also raises the CEO's maximum performance-share opportunity from 125% to 200%.
  • Unrecognized share-based compensation under the Omnibus Incentive Plan totaled $3,621.9 million at June 30, to be recognized over a weighted-average 1.6 years.
  • In June 2026, the U.S. Department of Defense updated its Section 1260H list of Chinese military companies, with a related procurement ban effective June 30, 2026. Arm says it is not directly affected but must do more due diligence on Chinese counterparties.
  • The Qualcomm case remains on track for trial in the fourth calendar quarter of 2026, and Arm's Nuvia appeal is still pending.

Guidance for Q2 fiscal 2027 (quarter ending September 30, 2026), from the shareholder letter. In Q1 Arm beat its guidance on all three lines: revenue of $1.289 billion against $1.26 billion ± $50 million, non-GAAP operating expense of $733 million against about $760 million, and non-GAAP EPS of $0.45 against $0.40 ± $0.04. For Q2 it expects:

  • Revenue: $1.38 billion ± $50 million
  • Non-GAAP operating expense: about $780 million
  • Non-GAAP diluted EPS: $0.47 ± $0.04

Subsequent events

From Note 16 (Subsequent Events) and Note 4 of the quarterly report on Form 6-K, accession 0001973239-26-000114, and later Forms 6-K as named.

  • DreamBig Semiconductor acquisition completed (July 1, 2026). Arm acquired 100% of the equity of DreamBig Semiconductor, Inc. for about $265.0 million in cash, subject to customary purchase-price adjustments. The definitive agreement was signed in October 2025. Arm expects DreamBig's advanced networking capabilities, technology and engineering expertise to strengthen its portfolio and help it deliver more complete solutions. Because the deal closed so recently, the purchase-price allocation was not complete when the quarterly report was issued on July 29, 2026. The quarterly report discloses no other post-period event, and no post-period borrowing or financing.
  • 2026 Annual General Meeting (September 9, 2026). Shareholders approved every resolution (Form 6-K, accession 0001973239-26-000128). These included the 2026 directors' remuneration policy, which passed with 939,316,303 votes for and 36,422,591 against and is the policy on which the CEO's Value Creation Plan award was conditioned. Shareholders also approved the directors' remuneration report, re-elected all eight directors (including Chairman Masayoshi Son and CEO Rene Haas) and re-appointed Deloitte LLP as auditor.
  • U.K. Annual Report and Accounts (September 18, 2026). Arm furnished its U.K. statutory accounts for fiscal 2026 (Form 6-K, accession 0001973239-26-000135). Their note on events after the balance sheet date lists only two items, both in April 2026 and described above: the additional Raspberry Pi share purchase and the $305 million increase in the cloud services purchase commitment.

AI synthesis of events in 14 filings

Arm is a foreign private issuer. It reports in US dollars, so every amount below is as stated in the filings. Its fiscal year ends March 31 (fiscal 2027 began April 1, 2026), and it furnishes interim results on Form 6-K rather than Form 10-Q.

Filings that contain financial statements

  • Form 6-K filed 2026-07-29, accession 0001973239-26-000114. Unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended June 30, 2026 (first quarter of fiscal 2027) with notes and management's discussion: income statement, balance sheet (June 30, 2026 against March 31, 2026), cash flow statement and statement of shareholders' equity. This is the primary interim source.
  • Form 6-K filed 2026-07-29, accession 0001973239-26-000113 (Exhibit 99.2, shareholder letter). Condensed income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement for the same quarter, plus GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations and free cash flow reconciliations.
  • Form 6-K filed 2026-05-06, accession 0001973239-26-000062 (Exhibit 99.2). Shareholder letter with quarterly and full-year financial statements for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2026.
  • Form 6-K filed 2026-02-04, accession 0001973239-26-000006 (and shareholder letter in accession 0001973239-26-000005, Exhibit 99.2). Interim financial statements for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2025.
  • Form 6-K filed 2025-11-05, accession 0001973239-25-000043 (and shareholder letter in accession 0001973239-25-000042, Exhibit 99.2). Interim financial statements for the three and six months ended September 30, 2025.
  • Form 6-K filed 2026-09-18, accession 0001973239-26-000135 (Exhibit 99.1). U.K. Annual Report and Accounts (consolidated financial statements) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026. Form 6-K filed 2025-09-18, accession 0001973239-25-000035, is the equivalent report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025.

The audited annual statements for fiscal 2026 are in the Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on May 26, 2026.

Earnings and guidance

  • 2026-07-29, first quarter of fiscal 2027 (accessions 0001973239-26-000113 and -000114). Total revenue was $1,289 million, up 22% from $1,053 million. Royalty revenue was $715 million (up 22%) and license and other revenue was $574 million (up 23%). Data center royalties more than doubled year over year. GAAP operating income was $91 million against $114 million a year earlier, and GAAP net income was $270 million ($0.25 per diluted share against $0.12). Non-GAAP operating income was $531 million and non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.45 against $0.35. Operating cash flow was $902 million and non-GAAP free cash flow was $665 million. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaled $3,888 million. Results were above the guidance given in May (revenue $1.26 billion +/- $50 million; non-GAAP EPS $0.40 +/- $0.04).
  • Guidance given 2026-07-29 for the second quarter of fiscal 2027: revenue of $1.38 billion +/- $50 million, non-GAAP operating expenses of about $780 million, and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.47 +/- $0.04.
  • Reporting change. Beginning with this quarter, Arm no longer reports remaining performance obligations or the number of Arm Total Access and Arm Flexible Access licenses in its shareholder letter, saying they are less relevant as the business extends into production silicon.
  • 2026-05-06, fourth quarter and fiscal 2026 (accession 0001973239-26-000062). Quarterly revenue was a record $1,490 million, above the $1.470 billion guidance midpoint; royalty revenue $671 million (up 11%) and licensing revenue $819 million (up 29%). Non-GAAP EPS was $0.60. Fiscal 2026 revenue was a record $4,920 million (up 23%), with GAAP diluted EPS of $0.85 and non-GAAP EPS of $1.77. First-quarter fiscal 2027 guidance was revenue of $1.26 billion +/- $50 million and non-GAAP EPS of $0.40 +/- $0.04.
  • 2026-02-04, third quarter of fiscal 2026 (accession 0001973239-26-000005). Revenue of $1.24 billion (up 26%), royalty revenue $737 million (up 27%), licensing revenue $505 million (up 25%), non-GAAP EPS $0.43.
  • 2025-11-05, second quarter of fiscal 2026 (accession 0001973239-25-000042). Revenue of $1.14 billion (up 34%), royalty revenue $620 million (up 21%), licensing revenue $515 million (up 56%).
  • 2026-03-24, Arm Everywhere investor event (accession 0001973239-26-000052). The chief financial officer reaffirmed fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 guidance and provided certain long-range financial expectations, which are in the event presentation materials rather than the filing.

Strategy and products

  • 2026-03-24, Arm AGI CPU launch (accession 0001973239-26-000050, Exhibit 99.1). Arm announced its first production silicon products, beginning with the Arm AGI CPU, an Arm-designed data center CPU for agentic AI infrastructure. Meta is lead partner and co-developer. The release names Cerebras, Cloudflare, F5, OpenAI, Positron, Rebellions, SAP and SK Telecom as additional commercial partners.
  • Demand update (accessions 0001973239-26-000062 and -000113). The May 6 and July 29 shareholder letters state customer demand for the Arm AGI CPU of more than $2 billion across fiscal 2027 and fiscal 2028, against the $1 billion opportunity outlined earlier. The July 29 letter says initial product has been delivered to multiple customers and manufacturing capacity has been secured for the $1 billion opportunity.

M&A and portfolio

  • DreamBig Semiconductor - closed. Arm signed a definitive agreement in October 2025 to acquire all equity of DreamBig Semiconductor, Inc. for approximately $265.0 million in cash, subject to purchase price adjustments. The Form 6-K of 2026-07-29 (accession 0001973239-26-000114) states that on July 1, 2026 Arm "completed the acquisition" of 100% of DreamBig. The closing fell after the June 30, 2026 quarter end, so the acquisition is disclosed as a subsequent event; the initial purchase price allocation was not complete at issuance.
  • Artisan foundation IP sale to Cadence - closed. The sale was completed on August 26, 2025 under an agreement entered into in April 2025. Arm recognized a pre-tax gain of $131.0 million for fiscal 2026 (accession 0001973239-26-000114).
  • Ampere. In November 2025 SoftBank Group acquired all equity interests of Ampere, in which Arm had an equity investment. Arm continues to have licensing and servicing arrangements with Ampere and entered into a development agreement with it effective March 2026 (accession 0001973239-26-000114).
  • Qualcomm and Nuvia (accession 0001973239-26-000114). After a December 2024 jury trial, the court on September 30, 2025 affirmed the verdict and granted Qualcomm judgment as a matter of law that Nuvia did not breach its license; Arm has appealed to the Third Circuit and the appeal is pending. In Qualcomm's separate April 2024 action against Arm over delivery obligations under its architecture license, claims against Arm Limited were consolidated in March 2026, and Qualcomm filed an amended complaint on March 30, 2026. Arm disagrees with the assertions and intends to defend vigorously. Trial is expected in the fourth calendar quarter of 2026.

Management and governance

  • 2026-04-21, CEO role at SoftBank Group International (accession 0001973239-26-000059). Rene Haas, Arm's Chief Executive Officer, took on the additional role of Chief Executive Officer of SoftBank Group International effective April 20, 2026. Arm describes the role as limited and part-time; he remains Arm's CEO and a director.
  • 2026-08-10, notice of Annual General Meeting (accession 0001973239-26-000117). The meeting was set for September 9, 2026, with ADS holders of record as of July 31, 2026 able to instruct the depositary on voting.
  • 2026-09-10, AGM results (accession 0001973239-26-000128). All proposals were approved, including re-election of Masayoshi Son, Rene Haas, Ronald D. Fisher, Jeffrey A. Sine, Karen E. Dykstra, Rosemary Schooler, Paul E. Jacobs and Young Sohn, and re-appointment of Deloitte LLP as auditors.

Not reflected in these filings

The filings reviewed contain no share repurchase program, dividend, debt issuance or going-concern item.

Financials

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About this file

TickerARM
CIK0001973239
CompanyArm Holdings plc
Business typetechnology
Schema templatesemiconductor IP licensing: revenue by type (license and other, royalty) and by counterparty (external customers, related parties), operating expenses, cash generation, and a balance sheet that presents no borrowings
Schema rationaleArm's revenue in these periods comes from licensing processor designs and collecting per-chip royalties, so cost of sales is small and gross margin has been above 95% in every period shown. What moves the business is the split between license and royalty revenue, the share of revenue from related parties (SoftBank-affiliated entities and Arm China), and research and development spending, so the record carries those lines alongside the standard statement totals.
Reporting currencyUSD
Converted to USDno
Unitsactual dollars (not millions); share counts in actual shares; per-share amounts in dollars per share
Fiscal calendar noteArm's fiscal year ends on March 31. The year ended March 31, 2026 is fiscal 2026, and the quarter ended June 30, 2026 is the first quarter of fiscal 2027.

ARM annual income statement, balance sheet and cash flow

Taken from the SEC filings and normalized to actual dollars.

FY2026FY2025FY2024
Period start2025-04-012024-04-012023-04-01
Period end2026-03-312025-03-312024-03-31
Period typefiscal yearfiscal yearfiscal year
Source accession20-F20-F20-F
Income statement
Revenue from external customers3,421,000,0003,184,000,0002,509,000,000
Revenue from related parties1,499,000,000823,000,000724,000,000
Total revenue4,920,000,0004,007,000,0003,233,000,000
Revenue by type
License and other revenue2,307,000,0001,839,000,0001,431,000,000
Royalty revenue2,613,000,0002,168,000,0001,802,000,000
Cost of sales121,000,000121,000,000154,000,000
Gross profit4,799,000,0003,886,000,0003,079,000,000
Research and development2,776,000,0002,071,000,0001,979,000,000
Selling general and administrative1,115,000,000984,000,000983,000,000
Disposal restructuring and other operating expenses net8,000,00006,000,000
Total operating expenses3,899,000,0003,055,000,0002,968,000,000
Operating income900,000,000831,000,000111,000,000
Income from equity investments net14,000,000-237,000,000-20,000,000
Interest income net111,000,000116,000,000110,000,000
Other non operating income net132,000,00010,000,00011,000,000
Income before income taxes1,157,000,000720,000,000212,000,000
Income tax benefit expense-253,000,00072,000,00094,000,000
Net income904,000,000792,000,000306,000,000
Basic EPS0.850.750.30
Diluted EPS0.850.750.29
Basic shares1,061,000,0001,050,000,0001,027,000,000
Diluted shares1,068,000,0001,063,000,0001,044,000,000
Cash flow
Depreciation and amortization249,000,000183,000,000162,000,000
Share based compensation1,052,000,000820,000,0001,037,000,000
Net cash provided by operating activities1,524,000,000397,000,0001,090,000,000
Purchases of property and equipment-545,000,000-219,000,000-92,000,000
Purchases of intangible assets-30,000,000-20,000,000-51,000,000
Payments of intangible asset obligations-67,000,000-59,000,000-40,000,000
Payments of withholding tax on vested shares-529,000,000-120,000,000-158,000,000
Cash and cash equivalents end of period2,751,000,0002,085,000,0001,923,000,000
Net cash from investing activities-325,000,000-35,000,000-516,000,000
Net cash from financing activities-548,000,000-202,000,000-208,000,000
Free cash flow979,000,000178,000,000998,000,000
Balance sheet
Cash and cash equivalents2,751,000,0002,085,000,000
Short term investments850,000,000740,000,000
Accounts receivable net1,300,000,0001,107,000,000
Contract assets current977,000,000642,000,000
Total current assets6,236,000,0004,830,000,000
Property and equipment net772,000,000354,000,000
Equity investments387,000,000565,000,000
Goodwill1,623,000,0001,620,000,000
Intangible assets net230,000,000151,000,000
Contract assets non current320,000,000346,000,000
Total assets10,703,000,0008,932,000,000
Contract liabilities current294,000,000209,000,000
Total current liabilities1,040,000,000929,000,000
Contract liabilities non current752,000,000702,000,000
Operating lease liabilities non current393,000,000316,000,000
Total liabilities2,417,000,0002,093,000,000
Total shareholders equity8,286,000,0006,839,000,000
Total liabilities and shareholders equity10,703,000,0008,932,000,000
Ordinary shares outstanding1,064,000,0001,057,000,000
  • Balance sheet note, FY2024. The FY2026 20-F presents balance sheets as of March 31, 2026 and 2025 only, so no balance sheet is reported here for fiscal 2024.

ARM quarterly income statement, balance sheet and cash flow

Taken from the SEC filings and normalized to actual dollars.

Q1 FY2027Q1 FY2026
Fiscal quarter11
Period start2026-04-012025-04-01
Period end2026-06-302025-06-30
Period typethree monthsthree months
Source accession6-K6-K
Income statement
Revenue from external customers901,000,000725,000,000
Revenue from related parties388,000,000328,000,000
Total revenue1,289,000,0001,053,000,000
Revenue by type
License and other revenue574,000,000468,000,000
Royalty revenue715,000,000585,000,000
Cost of sales36,000,00030,000,000
Gross profit1,253,000,0001,023,000,000
Research and development838,000,000650,000,000
Selling general and administrative317,000,000259,000,000
Disposal restructuring and other operating expenses net7,000,0000
Total operating expenses1,162,000,000909,000,000
Operating income91,000,000114,000,000
Income from equity investments net128,000,0004,000,000
Interest income net31,000,00027,000,000
Other non operating income net3,000,0001,000,000
Income before income taxes253,000,000146,000,000
Income tax benefit expense17,000,000-16,000,000
Net income270,000,000130,000,000
Basic EPS0.250.12
Diluted EPS0.250.12
Basic shares1,066,000,0001,058,000,000
Diluted shares1,078,000,0001,065,000,000
Related party revenue breakdown
Arm china license agreement189,400,000201,000,000
Softbank group affiliate consulting agreement192,900,000126,100,000
Ampere5,400,000600,000
Cash flow
Depreciation and amortization75,000,00060,000,000
Share based compensation343,000,000241,000,000
Net cash provided by operating activities902,000,000332,000,000
Purchases of property and equipment-197,000,000-154,000,000
Purchases of intangible assets-11,000,000-7,000,000
Payments of intangible asset obligations-29,000,000-21,000,000
Payments of withholding tax on vested shares-278,000,000-85,000,000
Cash and cash equivalents end of period3,058,000,0001,956,000,000
Non GAAP free cash flow company defined665,000,000150,000,000
Net cash from investing activities-267,000,000-372,000,000
Net cash from financing activities-326,000,000-123,000,000
Free cash flow705,000,000178,000,000
Balance sheet
Cash and cash equivalents3,058,000,000
Short term investments830,000,000
Accounts receivable net1,119,000,000
Contract assets current881,000,000
Total current assets6,339,000,000
Property and equipment net923,000,000
Equity investments589,000,000
Goodwill1,623,000,000
Intangible assets net217,000,000
Contract assets non current366,000,000
Total assets11,196,000,000
Contract liabilities current200,000,000
Total current liabilities1,207,000,000
Contract liabilities non current739,000,000
Operating lease liabilities non current423,000,000
Total liabilities2,566,000,000
Total shareholders equity8,630,000,000
Total liabilities and shareholders equity11,196,000,000
Ordinary shares outstanding1,068,000,000
  • Balance sheet note, Q1 FY2026. The Q1 FY2027 quarterly report presents balance sheets as of June 30, 2026 and March 31, 2026 only, so no balance sheet is reported here as of June 30, 2025.

ARM year-to-date income statement and cash flow

Taken from the SEC filings and normalized to actual dollars.

First three months of FY2027
Period start2026-04-01
Period end2026-06-30
Period typethree months
Source accession6-K
Income statement
Revenue from external customers901,000,000
Revenue from related parties388,000,000
Total revenue1,289,000,000
Revenue by type
License and other revenue574,000,000
Royalty revenue715,000,000
Cost of sales36,000,000
Gross profit1,253,000,000
Research and development838,000,000
Selling general and administrative317,000,000
Disposal restructuring and other operating expenses net7,000,000
Total operating expenses1,162,000,000
Operating income91,000,000
Income from equity investments net128,000,000
Interest income net31,000,000
Other non operating income net3,000,000
Income before income taxes253,000,000
Income tax benefit expense17,000,000
Net income270,000,000
Basic EPS0.25
Diluted EPS0.25
Basic shares1,066,000,000
Diluted shares1,078,000,000
Cash flow
Depreciation and amortization75,000,000
Share based compensation343,000,000
Net cash provided by operating activities902,000,000
Purchases of property and equipment-197,000,000
Purchases of intangible assets-11,000,000
Payments of intangible asset obligations-29,000,000
Payments of withholding tax on vested shares-278,000,000
Cash and cash equivalents end of period3,058,000,000
Non GAAP free cash flow company defined665,000,000
Net cash from investing activities-267,000,000
Net cash from financing activities-326,000,000
Free cash flow705,000,000
  • Note. Fiscal 2027 began on April 1, 2026, so the year-to-date period ended June 30, 2026 is the same three months as the first quarter of fiscal 2027.

ARM trailing twelve month income statement and cash flow

Derived by AI from the figures the filings report. No filing prints these, so none of them is linked.

Trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2026
Period start2025-07-01
Period end2026-06-30
Period typetrailing twelve months
Source accession6-K
Income statement
Revenue from external customers3,597,000,000
Revenue from related parties1,559,000,000
Total revenue5,156,000,000
Cost of sales127,000,000
Gross profit5,029,000,000
Research and development2,964,000,000
Selling general and administrative1,173,000,000
Disposal restructuring and other operating expenses net15,000,000
Total operating expenses4,152,000,000
Operating income877,000,000
Income from equity investments net138,000,000
Interest income net115,000,000
Other non operating income net134,000,000
Income before income taxes1,264,000,000
Income tax benefit expense-220,000,000
Net income1,044,000,000
Revenue by type
License and other revenue2,413,000,000
Royalty revenue2,743,000,000
Cash flow
Depreciation and amortization264,000,000
Share based compensation1,154,000,000
Net cash provided by operating activities2,094,000,000
Purchases of property and equipment-588,000,000
Purchases of intangible assets-34,000,000
Net cash from investing activities-220,000,000
Payments of intangible asset obligations-75,000,000
Payments of withholding tax on vested shares-722,000,000
Net cash from financing activities-751,000,000
Free cash flow1,506,000,000
Non GAAP free cash flow company defined1,397,000,000
Components
Fiscal yearFY2026
Fiscal year accession20-F
Quarter addedQ1 FY2027
Quarter removedQ1 FY2026
Quarter accession6-K
  • Derivation. Not a period the financial statements present. Each line is fiscal 2026 as reported in the FY2026 annual report on Form 20-F (accession 0001973239-26-000097), plus the three months ended June 30, 2026, less the three months ended June 30, 2025, both as reported in the Q1 FY2027 quarterly report on Form 6-K (accession 0001973239-26-000114). Arm's Q1 FY2027 results press release (Exhibit 99.2 to the Form 6-K with accession 0001973239-26-000113) prints the same trailing-twelve-month operating cash flow ($2,094 million), purchases of property and equipment ($588 million) and non-GAAP free cash flow ($1,397 million). No per-share figure is shown, because earnings per share cannot be added across periods with different share counts.

Adjustments

Splits appliednone
ADR ratio1
ADR noteArm's American depositary shares each represent one ordinary share (FY2026 20-F, Note 1), so every per-share figure here is equally a per-ADS figure and no conversion was needed.
FXNone. Arm reports in U.S. dollars, so no translation was required.

Notes

  • Annual figures for fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 are taken from the audited consolidated financial statements in Arm's FY2026 annual report on Form 20-F (accession 0001973239-26-000097). Balance sheets are reported as of March 31, 2026 and 2025, the two dates that report presents.
  • Quarterly figures for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, and the balance sheet as of June 30, 2026, are taken from the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in Arm's quarterly report for the three months ended June 30, 2026, furnished on Form 6-K (accession 0001973239-26-000114). Arm is a foreign private issuer and files no Form 10-Q; this Form 6-K is its quarterly report. Its March 31, 2026 balance sheet column agrees with the Form 20-F.
  • Arm prepares its financial statements under U.S. GAAP and reports in U.S. dollars, and it operates as a single operating segment.
  • Sign convention: cost of sales and operating expenses are stated as positive amounts (the income statement prints them in parentheses). Income from equity investments, net interest income, other non-operating income and the income tax line keep the filing's own sign, so a negative income tax figure is an expense and a positive one a benefit. Cash flow lines keep the filing's sign, with outflows negative.
  • Revenue by type (license and other revenue, royalty revenue) comes from the segment information note of each filing. Revenue from related parties is revenue from Arm China, from customers in which Arm has an equity method investment, and from other entities under common control of SoftBank Group, Arm's controlling shareholder. For the two quarters, the related-party detail (Arm China license agreement, consulting agreement with an affiliate of SoftBank Group, and Ampere) is taken from the related-party note of the Q1 FY2027 quarterly report, which states those amounts to one decimal place in millions; the three items sum to within rounding of the related-party revenue line.
  • free_cash_flow is computed here as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment; it is not a figure Arm prints. non_gaap_free_cash_flow_company_defined is Arm's own non-GAAP measure, which also deducts purchases of intangible assets and payments of intangible asset obligations. It is taken as printed from the reconciliation in Arm's Q1 FY2027 results press release (Exhibit 99.2 to the Form 6-K with accession 0001973239-26-000113) and is shown only for the periods that release covers.
  • ordinary_shares_outstanding is the number of ordinary shares issued and outstanding stated in the shareholders' equity section of each balance sheet (1,068 million at June 30, 2026; 1,064 million at March 31, 2026; 1,057 million at March 31, 2025).
  • Each Arm American depositary share represents one ordinary share, so per-share amounts apply equally per ADS. There were no share splits in the periods covered.
  • The balance sheets present no line for borrowings or debt; lease obligations appear as operating lease liabilities (finance lease liabilities are included within other current and other non-current liabilities, per the FY2026 Form 20-F).
  • The year-to-date view equals the first quarter of fiscal 2027, because the fiscal year began on April 1, 2026. The trailing-twelve-month view is derived as described in its own block.

Uncertainties

  • The quarterly statements are unaudited, as is the results press release from which Arm's non-GAAP free cash flow is taken.
  • No balance sheet is reported for fiscal 2024 or as of June 30, 2025, because neither filing used here presents one for those dates.

Company details

NameArm Holdings Plc /Uk
TickerARM
CIK0001973239
ExchangeNasdaq
StateUnited Kingdom
IncorporationUnited Kingdom
SIC3674
OfficeManufacturing
IndustrySemiconductors & Related Devices

Fiscal period

Fiscal year2027
Fiscal periodQ1
TagFY27Q1
Period end2026-06-30
Form6-K
Accession0001973239-26-000114
Fiscal year end0331
Sourcefacts

Source filings

RoleCurrentFormFiscal yearFiscal periodTagPeriod endFiledAccessionSource
annualno20-F2026FYFY262026-03-312026-05-260001973239-26-000097reported
quarterlyyes6-K2027Q1FY27Q12026-06-302026-07-290001973239-26-000114facts

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