Arm Holdings plc (ARM) analysis

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Health is that of an intellectual-property company, with few furnaces and with whatever cash or debt followed the listing. Quality should be high on margin if the royalty still falls on each chip. Growth splits the handset, which is mature, from new data-centre licences, which are few and large. Valuation often pays for those licences in advance. Shareholder return is not the story. The royalty is the story.

Arm's P/E belongs next to other royalty businesses and next to its own short listed history, not next to TSMC's P/E. Operating margin is the thermometer of a design that does not manufacture. EV/EBITDA is clean if there is no fab to depreciate. A royalty that falls with units is not repaired by a multiple. A dash means the ARM cache did not bring the figure.

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Not advice on ARM. Vaultflake does not count phones and does not split the data centre across architectures. This report does not invent a share of the handset base. A large licence with one hyperscaler may not be repeated. Read Arm's report. The table is cache, not a target price.

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