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 1.3× larger than Marvell by market cap; Marvell trades at the lower P/E (91.2 vs 301.1); year to date, Marvell leads (+237.7% vs +176.8%).
Side by side
| ARM | MRVL | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $314B | $241B |
| Price | $275.29 | $274.66 |
| Today | −6.5% | −3.5% |
| Return YTD | +176.8% | +237.7% |
| Return 1Y | +93.7% | +222.8% |
| Since June 26, 2026 | −17.6% | +3.0% |
| P/E | 301.1 | 91.2 |
| P/S | 61.0 | 25.5 |
| P/B | 36.4 | 13.0 |
Data as of 2026-10-08 · updates daily after U.S. close
Since June 26, 2026: the change in the closing price, from the daily closes Sectivia records itself since that date.
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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