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You may have seen that I picked up a ‘Starter Position’ in ARM Holdings (Epic Code ARM) on Tuesday 18th August at 927.4p via a Spreadbet. I know my timing wasn’t perfect although I don’t think I am miles away from getting them at a good price. I will cover this more in the Charting bit at the bottom of this Blog but my thinking behind this move is that ARM does not get this cheap very often - and I wanted to get a foothold on the Stock from which I can then build a big position. I often find with Great Stocks that unless I actually get my Cash out and buy a Small Stake I sort of forget about them and they drop off the Radar as something else jumps up and down and takes my attention - the ‘Availability Heuristic‘. I suppose this could be fixed by a stricter Watchlist Discipline but it never seems to happen !!
By actually buying into ARM in a small way I now will be looking at the Chart and thinking about the Valuation and stuff every night with my regular Chart Checks on ShareScope. I bought around 1.5% of my Total Exposure and I am thinking of pushing this up to around 4% with a combination of Normal Shares and more Spreadbets as Buy Signals are thrown up and the Cash becomes available in my Trading Accounts. I will probably not top-up for a few weeks and will be looking to go mad on them if we get a Real Stinker of a Market in the Autumn Sales.
ARM is a truly Class Act Quality Business, listed on the FTSE100, and I think there is a superb opportunity for me to make a nice pile of Cash out of this on a Long Term view. Brief Overview I am rather busy at the moment so I will hand this bit over to the Company to explain itself - over to you Mr ARM: “The world's leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier ARM is at the heart of the world’s most advanced digital products. Our technology enables the creation of new markets and transformation of industries and society. We design scalable, energy efficient-processors and related technologies to deliver the intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to servers, including smartphones, tablets, enterprise infrastructure and the Internet of Things. Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM Partners who have shipped more than 60 billion Systems on Chip (SoCs) containing our intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies. Company Highlights
The ARM business model involves the designing and licensing of IP rather than the manufacturing and selling of actual semiconductor chips. We license IP to a network of Partners, which includes the world's leading semiconductor and systems companies. These Partners utilize ARM IP designs to create and manufacture system-on-chip designs, paying ARM a license fee for the original IP and a royalty on every chip or wafer produced. In addition to processor IP, we provide a range of tools, physical and systems IP to enable optimized system-on-chip designs. With the diversity of ARM IP and the broad ecosystem of supporting silicon and software for ARM-based solutions, the world's leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) use ARM technology in a wide variety of applications ranging from mobile handsets and digital set top boxes to car braking systems and network routers. Today ARM technology is in use in 95% of smart phones, 80% of digital cameras, and 35% of all electronic devices.” The Company’s Website can be found here: http://www.arm.com/ Buy Case
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Valuation If you look at the ShareScope ScreenShot below, in the Top Right Hand Corner you should see ‘Norm EPS (p)’ for ‘Dec 2016 Forecast’ of 36.63p. At my Buy Price of 927.4p this gives a Forward P/E Ratio (Price divided by Earnings) of 25.3. However, as at 30th June 2015 ARM had £903.8m of Cash on its Balance Sheet which is worth about 70p per Share, strip this out and you get an Ex-Cash Forward P/E for 2016 of 23.4 (927.4 minus 70 divided by 36.63).
Now, if you have been reading my Blogs, you are rightly going to say “Cor Blimey Wheelie (you are a bit of a Cockney obviously), that’s a flippin’ high P/E innit?” - which is an excellent retort because it shows you have been taking stuff in. However, the beauty here is that ARM is a bit of a Special Case where the Stockmarket has for years been giving it a silly high P/E Rating and I suspect this will again be the case in the near future.
As I have outlined earlier in this Blog, ARM is very much a High Growth, Quality, Trophy kind of Stock - Market Players are prepared to pay up for such Class and this is where the opportunity lies. For many years ARM was one of my utter favourite Stocks and I traded in and out of it a lot (yes, I was stupid, I should have just bought it and held it but everyone has to learn !!), but for pretty much the last 4 years it has been unbuyable for me as it was on just too high a Rating. For much of this time it was trading on a P/E of 40 plus and even hit 50 I think at one point - utter madness but I have no issue buying a Stock on a P/E of 23 if I feel the Market will re-rate it upwards to a silly P/E again - this is very likely, especially as it is seen by many as a Takeover Candidate for perhaps some Tech Monstrosity like Apple AAPL. You don’t really buy a Stock like ARM for the Dividends, but there is a little bit to pick up while I wait and this should rise quite swiftly over time. In fact, the recent Interim Divvy Payment was up 25% on the year before - this is why the Market is so keen on the Stock - the Growth all over it is rapid. If you look at the ScreenShot, you will see the ‘Dividend (p)’ for ‘Dec 2016 Forecast’ is 7.2p - on my Buy Price of 927.4p this gives a Dividend Yield for Next Year of 0.78%. However, if you look at the next year, I should pick up a Divvy of 11.85p - this gives a Divvy Yield of 1.28% - Note how fast the Dividends are expected to grow. Target As ever, patience will be needed but it is not hard to imagine ARM back on a Forward P/E of certainly 35 and maybe even 40. On a Forward P/E of 35 for Next Year, this gives a Target of 1282p (in theory you could add another 70p on for the Cash which would give a Target of 1352p). On a Forward P/E of 40, this gives a Target of 1465p or 1535p if we add on 70p for the Cash. In a few years, it’s not hard to imagine 50p of Earnings Per Share and on a P/E of 40 that gives a Target of 2000p - that’s got you thinking !! From a Chart viewpoint, the obvious Target is the recent All Time High up around 1230p. If it can get back up there, it represents 32% Upside on my Buy Price which is more than likely to happen. I would imagine this will be a tough Resistance Area to get through, but once it does, it will run. So clearly there is plenty to aim at. Technicals As per all my Buy Rationale Blogs, the Chart ScreenShots from ShareScope were taken on the Night before I bought the Stock - so this was the situation that I was confronted with when I made my Buy Decision - although I had been stalking ARM for a few weeks. The Chart below shows the Long Term picture for ARM - going back to 2008. As you can see, there is a very clear Uptrend Channel that I have marked with a Red Top line and a Black Bottom line. You should be able to see that the Price was down near the bottom of the Channel when I decided to start nibbling.
The Chart below shows the picture for the last few months - in this case we are clearly in a Downtrend Channel within the Larger Uptrend of the previous Chart - I have marked this with the 2 Blue Lines.
There are several things to note - firstly the Black Arrow points to a small Hammer Candlestick which was generated on the Monday when I made my Buy Decision. This is not a wonderful Signal but it is hinting that the Downtrend may be coming to an end. The Blue Arrow marks the Top Line of the Downtrend Channel - clearly I need the Price to Breakout of this Line to enable the Price to properly start moving up or at least going Sideways. Such a Breakout would be a great Buy Signal for a Topup of my Starter Stake. The Red Arrow points to a 50 Day / 200 Day Moving Average ‘Death Cross’ - this is not so good and could put the dampers on the Stock for a while. However, I often find that the Price can move up after such a Death Cross and it can quite quickly do a ‘Golden Cross’ as the Moving Averages improve.
In the Bottom Window of the Chart below, you should see the RSI (Relative Strength Index). The key thing here is that the Line is very much down the bottom near the RSI 30 Oversold Level - a pretty good time to buy as you can see from looking to the Left where the Price has moved up from several times in the recent past.
The bottom line here is that I might not have picked the Bottom perfectly, but I suspect it is close enough that I may get a bit of drawdown in the Short Term but with a 6 month view this will look like a great Entry Point to start building a Chunky Holding. Right, that’s ARM done, wd.
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