Arm上周进行了美国今年规模最大的IPO,但在华尔街有一位大人物并没有加入这场盛宴,她就是传奇投资者凯西·伍德。
方舟投资(ARK Invest)CEO伍德周三在接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道(CNBC)采访时表示,ARK没有参与Arm在纽约的首日交易,因为该财富管理公司认为这家公司估值过高。
周四,英国芯片设计公司Arm在以科技股为主的纳斯达克上市,其备受瞩目的IPO对公司的估值为550亿美元,这是今年规模最大的IPO。
软银(SoftBank)旗下的Arm在交易首日股价上涨25%,据媒体报道,在股票发行前几天,其IPO已被超购10倍。
但伍德表示,她感觉投资者过于夸大了Arm在人工智能这个热门领域的地位。
她解释称:“我认为关于Arm,投资者可能有点过多强调人工智能,却没有足够重视该领域的竞争状况。因此,我们没有参与IPO,而且我们还将其与我们投资组合中的股票进行了对比。
我们认为,Arm有很高的估值,但我们的投资组合中有股价更低的公司,它们在人工智能领域有更大的影响力。”
《财富》杂志周三联系到Arm,但Arm拒绝对伍德的评论发表意见。
Arm是否估值过高?
伍德的观点或许有一定道理。Arm的股票自在纳斯达克首日交易以来已经下跌了约13%,这家新上市公司的股价经历了连续下跌。
这并非伍德最近几个月避开的唯一一只被热炒的人工智能半导体股票。
尽管随着英伟达(Nvidia)人工智能芯片的需求激增,华尔街有数十亿美元资金被投入到该公司,但ARK Invest对英伟达同样采取了谨慎的态度。
伍德在5月表示,公司在1月已经抛售了英伟达股票,她表示这个决定是公司更广泛策略的一部分,即ARK“将开拓多数人尚未发现的另外一些领域”。
ARK对英伟达的立场,与其对Arm的立场一样,都违背了常规。
但与Arm不同,自从ARK减持以来,英伟达股票大幅上涨,自年初至今上涨了超过200%,只是最近几周公司股价才有所回落。
英伟达现在依旧是万亿市值俱乐部的成员,这个高市值精英联盟的其他成员包括亚马逊(Amazon)、苹果(Apple)和微软(Microsoft)等。
5月,英伟达CEO黄仁勋所发布的乐观前景展望,使该公司经历了美国历史上单日最大市值涨幅,公司市值上涨了近2,000亿美元。8月,在其季度营收报告发布前后,公司股价继续刷新历史纪录。
在2022年以前,英伟达希望能收购Arm,后者当时的估值为400亿美元。
如果该笔交易成功,这将是半导体行业史上最大的一次收购。然而,由于监管压力,这笔收购交易去年以失败告终。(财富中文网)
翻译:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
Arm上周进行了美国今年规模最大的IPO,但在华尔街有一位大人物并没有加入这场盛宴,她就是传奇投资者凯西·伍德。
方舟投资(ARK Invest)CEO伍德周三在接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道(CNBC)采访时表示,ARK没有参与Arm在纽约的首日交易,因为该财富管理公司认为这家公司估值过高。
周四,英国芯片设计公司Arm在以科技股为主的纳斯达克上市,其备受瞩目的IPO对公司的估值为550亿美元,这是今年规模最大的IPO。
软银(SoftBank)旗下的Arm在交易首日股价上涨25%,据媒体报道,在股票发行前几天,其IPO已被超购10倍。
但伍德表示,她感觉投资者过于夸大了Arm在人工智能这个热门领域的地位。
她解释称:“我认为关于Arm,投资者可能有点过多强调人工智能,却没有足够重视该领域的竞争状况。因此,我们没有参与IPO,而且我们还将其与我们投资组合中的股票进行了对比。
我们认为,Arm有很高的估值,但我们的投资组合中有股价更低的公司,它们在人工智能领域有更大的影响力。”
《财富》杂志周三联系到Arm,但Arm拒绝对伍德的评论发表意见。
Arm是否估值过高?
伍德的观点或许有一定道理。Arm的股票自在纳斯达克首日交易以来已经下跌了约13%,这家新上市公司的股价经历了连续下跌。
这并非伍德最近几个月避开的唯一一只被热炒的人工智能半导体股票。
尽管随着英伟达(Nvidia)人工智能芯片的需求激增,华尔街有数十亿美元资金被投入到该公司,但ARK Invest对英伟达同样采取了谨慎的态度。
伍德在5月表示,公司在1月已经抛售了英伟达股票,她表示这个决定是公司更广泛策略的一部分,即ARK“将开拓多数人尚未发现的另外一些领域”。
ARK对英伟达的立场,与其对Arm的立场一样,都违背了常规。
但与Arm不同,自从ARK减持以来,英伟达股票大幅上涨,自年初至今上涨了超过200%,只是最近几周公司股价才有所回落。
英伟达现在依旧是万亿市值俱乐部的成员,这个高市值精英联盟的其他成员包括亚马逊(Amazon)、苹果(Apple)和微软(Microsoft)等。
5月,英伟达CEO黄仁勋所发布的乐观前景展望,使该公司经历了美国历史上单日最大市值涨幅,公司市值上涨了近2,000亿美元。8月,在其季度营收报告发布前后,公司股价继续刷新历史纪录。
在2022年以前,英伟达希望能收购Arm,后者当时的估值为400亿美元。
如果该笔交易成功,这将是半导体行业史上最大的一次收购。然而,由于监管压力,这笔收购交易去年以失败告终。(财富中文网)
翻译:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
Arm may have enjoyed the biggest IPO of the year last week, but there’s one big name on Wall Street who isn’t lining up to jump on the bandwagon: legendary investor Cathie Wood.
In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, the ARK Invest CEO said ARK didn’t take part in Arm’s New York debut because the wealth management firm believed the company was overvalued.
On Thursday, U.K. chip designer Arm listed on the tech-heavy Nasdaq in a blockbuster IPO that valued it at $55 billion—making it the biggest IPO of the year.
The SoftBank-owned company’s shares rose 25% in their first day of trading, with the IPO reportedly being 10 times oversubscribed in the days leading up to the share sale.
However, Wood said she felt investors had given too much clout to Arm’s position in the red-hot AI space.
“I think there might be a little bit too much emphasis on AI when it comes to Arm and maybe not enough focus on the competitive dynamics out there,” she explained. “So we did not participate in that IPO, and we also compare it to the stocks in our portfolios.
“Arm came out, we think, from a valuation point of view on the high side, and we see within our portfolios much lower priced names with much more exposure to AI.”
Arm declined to comment on Wood’s comments when Fortune contacted the firm on Wednesday.
Is Arm overvalued?
Wood may have been onto something. Arm’s shares have shed around 13% of their value since their first day on the Nasdaq, with the now-public firm’s shares seeing consecutive daily price declines.
It isn’t the only hyped-up AI semiconductor stock Wood has swerved in recent months.
ARK Invest has also taken a cautious approach to Nvidia, despite Wall Street pouring billions of dollars into the company on the back of surging demand for its AI chips.
Wood said in May that the firm dumped its Nvidia shares in January, defending that decision as part of a wider strategy in which ARK was “pivoting to another set of plays that most people have not discovered yet.”
ARK’s position on Nvidia, much like its stance toward Arm, went against the grain.
Unlike Arm, however, Nvidia stock has enjoyed a major rally since ARK cut its holding in the firm—gaining more than 200% since the beginning of the year—although shares have cooled off in recent weeks.
Still, the company is now part of the exclusive trillion-dollar club, which puts it in the same elite mega cap league as the likes of Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.
Back in May, a bullish outlook from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang saw the company land one of the largest single-day gains in value in U.S. history, adding nearly $200 billion to its market cap. Its shares went on to touch a record high in August around the release of its quarterly earnings report.
Until 2022, Nvidia had hoped to acquire Arm in a deal that would have been valued at $40 billion.
However, the takeover—which would have been the biggest in the semiconductor industry’s history—collapsed last year after coming under huge regulatory pressure from China and both sides of the Atlantic.