Red-hot Arm Holdings soars to another all-time high. What's fueling the move this time?

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · May 28, 2026 · 1009 words · By Kevin Stankiewicz

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What happened

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street.

Why it matters

The S & P 500 and Nasdaq powered higher on Thursday, with both indexes touching all-time highs during the session.

Common ground

Helping fuel the gains, Axios reported that the U.S.

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Claim 1: “CrowdStrike and Palo Alto were each up roughly 4%.”

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One source mentions Palo Alto Networks gaining nearly 4%, but there is no corroborating evidence for CrowdStrike gaining 4% on that specific Thursday in the provided results.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S&P_500_companies

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russell 1000 Index is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the largest 1,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index, which represent about 93% of the total market capitalization of that index. The inde…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Super Bowl LX was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2025 season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion Seattle Seahawks…
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Claim 2: “Arm CEO Rene Haas is also giving a Computex keynote on Tuesday morning local time.”

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Claim 3: “The stock [Arm Holdings] has more than tripled year to date.”

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While Yahoo Finance provides a 52-week range, none of the provided evidence explicitly confirms that the stock has more than tripled (increased >200%) year-to-date.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arm Holdings plc is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit (CPU) cores that implement the ARM …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arm (stylised in lowercase as arm) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures for computer processors. Arm Holdings develops the instruction set architecture and licenses them to other companie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_architecture_family

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of central processing units based on the ARM family of instruction sets designed by ARM Ltd. and third parties, sorted by version of the ARM instruction set, release and name. In 2005, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM_processors

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Claim 4: “Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.”

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Claim 5: “Nvidia is another licensee of Arm IP for its Grace and Vera CPUs”

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Claim 6: “Axios reported that the U.S. and Iran agreed to a memorandum of understanding to keep their ceasefire going and begin talks on Tehran's nuclear program.”

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The search results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant (dictionary definitions of the letter 'U', United Airlines, and a streaming service), providing no evidence to confirm or deny the claim.

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web search NEUTRAL — U (minuscule: u) is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others world…
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest travel deals on flights, hotels and rental cars. Book airline tickets and MileagePlus award tickets to worldwide destinations.
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web search NEUTRAL — U is the on demand home of U&Dave, U&Drama, U&W & U&Yesterday. Stream thousands of hours of the best comedy, drama, entertainment & documentaries for free.
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Claim 7: “Snowflake announced a $6 billion cloud-computing spending commitment with Amazon — and it explicitly mentions that Snowflake will use Amazon's Graviton CPUs”

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No evidence was found in the search results to support the claim regarding Snowflake's $6 billion agreement with Amazon.

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Claim 8: “AMD was up a more modest 5%, and Intel was down almost 1%.”

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The evidence is contradictory. One source states AMD shares closed 1.3% down on Thursday, while another source claims AMD shares soared over 16%.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AMD v. Intel was a private antitrust lawsuit, filed in the United States by Advanced Micro Devices ("AMD") against Intel Corporation in June 2005.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Crystal HD is Broadcom's hardware semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) core that performs video decoding.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The transistor count is the number of transistors in an electronic device (typically on a single substrate or silicon die). It is the most common measure of integrated circuit complexity (although the…
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Claim 9: “the Census Bureau's Monthly wholesale trade survey, which figures into quarterly GDP estimates, is due out at 8:30 a.m. ET.”

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Claim 10: “The Information, a tech-focused publication, reported Microsoft will debut a new coding model next week at its Build developer conference .”

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Multiple independent sources (Resultsense and another web search result) report that Microsoft is set to debut a new coding model at its Build developer conference.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 · Microsoft is set to unveil a new suite of proprietary AI models at its Build developer conference next week, including a coding model designed ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 · At its Build developer conference on Tuesday, Microsoft announced MAI-Code-1-Flash, its inaugural model in the AI coding space.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 · Microsoft will reportedly debut its own AI coding model and in-house models at Build next week, reducing dependence on OpenAI as Claude Code ...
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Claim 11: “CEO Jensen Huang said the company [Nvidia] has a "surprise new product."”

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Claim 12: “Shares [of Arm Holdings] soared more than 13.5% on Thursday afternoon, pushing its one-month gains north of 73%”

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The provided evidence for Arm Holdings is either outdated (2023), irrelevant (PDFs about food value chains), or does not mention the specific 13.5% gain on Thursday or the 73% monthly gain.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AMC Global Media is an American independent mass media and entertainment corporation headquartered in 11 Penn Plaza, New York City. The company owns and operates the AMC cable channel, BBC America, IF…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Equity Group Holdings Limited (EGHL), formerly Equity Bank Group, is a financial services holding company based in the African Great Lakes region. EGHL's headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — HSBC Holdings plc (Chinese: 滙豐; lit. 'focus of wealth') is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business links to East Asia and a…
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Claim 13: “The S & P 500 and Nasdaq powered higher on Thursday, with both indexes touching all-time highs during the session.”

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Multiple independent web search results from CNBC and other market news sources confirm that the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at all-time highs on Thursday (specifically citing dates in May 2026).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Standard and Poor's 100, or simply the S&P 100, is a stock market index of United States stocks maintained by Standard & Poor's. The S&P 100 is a subset of the S&P 500 and the S&P 1500, and holds …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article is a summary of the closing milestones of the S&P 500 Index, a United States stock market index.
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Claim 14: “If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade.”

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Claim 15: “Amazon first debuted Arm-based Graviton in 2018 , and it's now on its fifth generation .”

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Claim 16: “Mizuho Securities raised its price target on Arm shares to $360 from $290”

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No evidence was found in the search results to support the claim regarding Mizuho Securities' price target change to $360.

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Claim 17: “Microsoft , which gained more than 3.5% on the session and has now erased all its late April post-earnings losses .”

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While there are reports of Microsoft's earnings and stock movements in April 2026, none of the provided evidence confirms a 3.5% gain on a specific Thursday or the erasure of late April losses.

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 30, 2026 ... Conversely, Meta and Microsoft lost 8.6% and 3.9%, respectively. Meta shares were weighed down by the company's latest capex, while user growth ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/stock-market-today-live-upda…

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 29, 2026 ... Third quarter numbers for Microsoft are out and it's a beat on its top and bottom line. Earnings of $4.27 GAAP versus the estimate of $4.06.
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago ... The Nasdaq , however, shed 1.1%, while the S&P 500 lost 0.3%. Shares of several big-name chipmakers declined during the session, putting ...
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