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When the AI party gets less fun
Arm wasn’t the star of any fresh bad news on Friday. Instead, it got caught in the crossfire as investors hit the sell button across semis and AI names after Broadcom’s latest outlook didn’t exactly scream, “keep buying the dip.”
Broadcom said “still great,” traders heard “not great enough”
Broadcom kept its long-term AI semiconductor revenue target above $100 billion by fiscal 2027, but it didn’t raise the bar. In a market that’s been pricing AI stocks like they’re all going to the moon on a rocket made of margin expansion, that was enough to trigger some profit-taking.
- Nasdaq and the S&P 500 both slipped, so the mood was already risk-off.
- High-valuation tech got hit first, because of course it did.
- Arm fell with the group, even though the move was more about sentiment than a company-specific miss.
Arm’s chart still looks spicy
The stock is still miles above its longer-term moving averages, which is trader-speak for “this thing has had a massive run and a little wobble is not shocking.” RSI is also deep in overbought territory, which means the stock has been running hot enough to make even momentum fans sweat a little.
Wall Street still sounds pretty constructive, too. Mizuho just bumped its price target to $500, while Wells Fargo and Barclays also came in with bullish calls this week. So this looks less like a thesis break and more like the market taking a breather after sprinting like it left the oven on.
Big picture: Arm’s Friday drop looks like a sector mood swing, not a business hiccup. If you own it, the key question is whether this is just a pause in an AI-fueled uptrend — or the first sign that investors want a little less perfection baked into these names.