Arm Holdingsvs.Marvell
ARM vs MRVL · both in Chips & accelerators, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Designs and builds the processors, accelerators and memory that train and run AI.
Arm Holdings is about 1.5× larger than Marvell by market cap; Marvell trades at the lower P/E (77.0 vs 278.1); year to date, Marvell leads (+169.8% vs +118.4%).
Side by side
| ARM | MRVL | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $290B | $195B |
| Price | $241.56 | $240.38 |
| Today | +1.2% | +4.8% |
| Return YTD | +118.4% | +169.8% |
| Return 1Y | +73.1% | +214.1% |
| P/E | 278.1 | 77.0 |
| P/S | 56.3 | 22.3 |
| P/B | 33.6 | 10.7 |
Data as of 2026-08-26 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
Arm HoldingsARM
Licensing, not manufacturing: the CPU architectures and instruction sets (Cortex, Neoverse) that nearly every mobile and server chip is built around come from Arm, which takes a royalty on each chip produced.
Full ARM profile →MarvellMRVL
Data infrastructure only. Marvell builds custom AI accelerators for single customers and the optical and networking silicon around them.
Full MRVL profile →More ARM & MRVL comparisons
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