Shares of Arm Holdings PLC - ADR (NASDAQ:ARM) are up 2.1% to trade at $174.26 at last glance, after the chip giant made a deal with Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META) to manage discovery and personalization across its apps. More specifically, Meta plans to use Arm's data center platforms to enable its AI ranking and recommendation systems.
ARM has been faring well on the charts this year, up 41.9% in 2025, and earlier this week moved within a chip shot of its Jan. 22, year-to-date high of $182.88. The shares have more than doubled off their April lows, with the newly formed 360-day moving average capturing several pullback attempts over the past few months.
Calls have been much more popular than usual over the last 10 weeks, per ARM's 50-day call/put volume ratio of 2.84 at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Cboe Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), which ranks higher than all other readings from the past year. Echoing this, the equity's Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR) of 0.90 stands in the 2nd percentile of annual readings.
