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We're again trimming a stock up 46% last week and 80% since our April initiation

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Why This Matters

The article highlights a significant rally in Arm Holdings' stock, which has surged 46% last week and 80% since April, prompting strategic profit-taking to manage risk. This move exemplifies disciplined investing amid rapid stock appreciation, emphasizing the importance of balancing gains with risk management in the tech industry. For consumers, this underscores the volatile yet lucrative nature of investing in innovative tech companies and the importance of strategic decision-making.

Key Takeaways

Shortly after the opening bell, we will be selling 55 shares of Arm Holdings at roughly $314 each. Following Tuesday's trade, Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust will own 130 shares of ARM, decreasing its weighting to roughly 1% from 1.44%. We will be locking in more big gains in Arm following another huge rally. Shares of this chip designer rallied 46% last week, with roughly half the move coming after Nvidia said on its earnings call that its Arm-based Vera CPU has visibility into $20 billion in revenue this year. That's great forn Arm's royalty business. We wrote in Friday's HomeStretch about how we planned to handle this second parabolic move since we initiated an Arm position on April 20, roughly five weeks ago. Arm's recent outperformance has pushed its position weight in the Trust from 1% after last Monday's trim to around 1.45% as of Friday's close. By making another trim back to 1%, we can better manage the risk of this exponential move by bringing the position closer to our original weighting. It also allows us to raise cash to fund other purchases or to potentially buy back shares of Arm if the stock were to pull back. ARM 3M mountain Arm Holdings 3 months More broadly, we don't buy parabolic moves; we take profits. That's because stocks can fall just as quickly as they move higher. That may mean our sales won't come at the absolute highest prices, but letting them run would violate our discipline. From this trade, we will realize a big gain of around 80% on shares purchased in our April initiation. (Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust is long ARM, NVDA. See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB. NO SPECIFIC OUTCOME OR PROFIT IS GUARANTEED.