IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
| Previous Close | 139.17 |
| Open | 143.32 |
| Bid | 143.37 x 900 |
| Ask | 143.39 x 800 |
| Day's Range | 142.56 - 145.79 |
| 52 Week Range | 126.85 - 152.95 |
| Volume | 12,401,693 |
| Avg. Volume | 3,441,262 |
| Market Cap | 126.602B |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 1.34 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 16.61 |
| EPS (TTM) | 8.60 |
| Earnings Date | Apr 13, 2020 - Apr 19, 2020 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 6.48 (4.69%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Nov 05, 2019 |
| 1y Target Est | 146.89 |
- MarketWatch
IBM stock ticks higher as analysts debate merits of Red Hat on Big Blue’s future
International Business Machines Corp.’s 2020 fortunes may hang on how well Red Hat keeps contributing to the company’s growing cloud business as Big Blue tries to rely less on its legacy products.
ReutersUS STOCKS-S&P 500, Nasdaq on track for record closing highs
Tech shares led all three major U.S. stock averages into the black, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq setting a course to notch new record closing highs, the day after virus fears prompted a sell-off. Streaming pioneer Neftlix Inc acknowledged stiffer competition in the United States, where quarterly growth fell short of analyst estimates.
- Barrons.com
IBM’s Strong Earnings Has People Excited. But the Company Hasn’t Turned the Corner Yet.
(IBM)(ticker: IBM) shareholders are hoping the return to sales growth in its December quarter signals the start of a new revival for the company. The growth was bolstered by Red Hat, the software company IBM acquired in July 2019. Yesterday, IBM Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh said in a phone interview that the company is “very pleased” with Red Hat’s performance during the quarter, citing the synergy between the software acquisition and IBM’s cloud offerings.
- Reuters
US STOCKS-S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs on IBM, chip power
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs on Wednesday as a strong forecast from IBM added to optimism over corporate earnings, while investors assessed risks from a virus outbreak in China. International Business Machines Corp shares jumped 3.4% after it forecast full-year profit above market expectations on strength in its high-margin cloud computing business. Technology stocks, which have played a big role in Wall Street's recent record run, rose 0.9%, with chip stocks gaining after a strong forecast from Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML Holding NV.
- TheStreet.com
Here's Why Jim Cramer Think IBM's a Buy
The Red Hat acquisition was great for IBM, but what else do we need to see from the company?
- GuruFocus.com
US Markets in the Green on Wednesday
Johnson & Johnson stock falls on fourth-quarter results Continue reading...
- MarketWatch
Dow jumps 34 points on gains in shares of IBM, Intel
DOW UPDATE The Dow Jones Industrial Average is climbing Wednesday morning with shares of IBM and Intel leading the way for the blue-chip average. Shares of IBM (IBM) and Intel (INTC) have contributed to the blue-chip gauge's intraday rally, as the Dow (DJIA) was most recently trading 34 points higher (0.
- Zacks
IBM Posts Surprise Q4 Revenue Growth: ETFs to Tap
IBM registered surprise growth in quarterly revenues and beat the estimates on both earnings and revenues.
- Reuters
WRAPUP 2-U.S. home sales surge to near two-year high; supply at record low
U.S. home sales jumped to their highest level in nearly two years in December, the latest indication that lower mortgage rates are helping the housing market to regain its footing after hitting a soft patch in 2018, though record low inventory could be an obstacle to continued strong gains. The report from the National Association of Realtors on Wednesday followed on the heels of government data last week showing homebuilding raced to a 13-year high in December. Renewed housing market momentum could soften some of the hit on the economy from manufacturing as the thaw in U.S.-China trade tensions is offset by Boeing's suspension this month of production of its troubled 737 MAX plane.
- Benzinga
IBM Analysts Divided Over Merit Of Q4 Beat, Strong Guidance
IBM (NYSE: IBM ) reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and also issued upbeat earnings forecast for fiscal year 2020. This is a turnaround from the third quarter , when it missed the consensus ...
- Zacks
IBM's Q4 Earnings Top Estimates, Cloud Momentum Aids Revenues
IBM's Q4 performance gains from advancements in the Cloud & Cognitive Software and Systems segments.
- Benzinga
IBM, Netflix Earnings Greeted With Enthusiasm, And Texas Instruments Up Later Today
Solid earnings from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and healthy international subscriber gains for Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) might have been the warm bowl of chicken soup stocks needed to recover, judging from pre-market gains in futures trading. It looks like IBM’s Red Hat acquisition is starting to pay dividends, which is good to see when you consider how much the company has struggled recently.
- TheStreet.com
[video]IBM Still Faces Plenty of Issues -- Even if Red Hat Is Doing Well
While Red Hat's growth has accelerated since IBM bought the company, many of Big Blue's other key software and services businesses are still losing share.
- MarketWatch
Why one stock-market bull says he’s taking the ‘offense off the field’
Tony Dwyer, a longtime bull and strategist at brokerage Canaccord Genuity, is getting a little nervous and said it is time “to take offense temporarily off the field.”
- MarketWatch
IBM, Intel share gains lead Dow's 100-point climb
DOW UPDATE Shares of IBM and Intel are seeing strong returns Wednesday morning, propelling the Dow Jones Industrial Average into positive territory. The Dow (DJIA) was most recently trading 108 points (0.
- Reuters
GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks shake off China virus worries, dollar stays strong
World stock markets regained strength on Wednesday, as swift updates from China about the spread of a new flu-like coronavirus raised hopes the outbreak would be contained. Worries about contagion of the virus, particularly as millions travel for upcoming Lunar New Year festivities, have knocked the world's top equity markets off record peaks. The outbreak has revived memories of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2002-03, a coronavirus outbreak that killed nearly 800 people.
- PR Newswire
I.AM+ Aims to Accelerate Ethical AI Adoption with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Public Cloud
I.AM+, the technology company founded by global music artist and entrepreneur will.i.am, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have joined forces aiming to accelerate the adoption of AI and responsibly manage customer data as AI goes mainstream.
- Bloomberg
Intel and Softbank Beware. Open Source Is Coming to the Chip Business
(Bloomberg) -- After revolutionizing software, the open-source movement is threatening to do same to the chip industry.Big technology companies have begun dabbling with RISC-V, which replaces proprietary know-how in a key part of the chip design process with a free standard that anyone can use. While it’s early days, this could create a new crop of processors that compete with Intel Corp. products and whittle away at the licensing business of Arm Holdings Plc.In December, about 2,000 people packed into a Silicon Valley conference to learn about RISC-V, a new set of instructions that control how software communicates with semiconductors. In just a few years, RISC-V has grown from a college teaching tool into an open-source standard being explored by industry giants including Google, Samsung Electronics Co., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Qualcomm Inc. and Nvidia Corp.“Most of the major companies are putting substantial efforts into RISC-V,” said Krste Asanovic, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was part of the team that developed the standard. He’s co-founder of SiFive Inc., a startup that sells chip designs based on RISC-V (pronounced “risk five”).Open source harnesses the contributions of multitudes, not just the proprietary ideas of a few companies. New code is shared, so anyone can see it, improve it and build their own contributions on top of it. After being dismissed by giants like Microsoft Corp. in the 1990s, this expanding body of work has become the foundation of the internet, smartphones and many software applications. Last year, IBM bought open-source pioneer Red Hat in the biggest software deal in history. Even Microsoft got on board, acquiring GitHub, the largest repository of open-source code.Opening up even small parts of the chipmaking process is anathema to many in the $400 billion industry. But if enough companies commit to an open-source approach, that could create a shared pool of knowledge that may be hard for Intel and Arm to keep up with.Early developments focus on instruction sets, which govern the basic functions of processors. Only two have mattered for years. One is Intel‘s X86, which dominates computer processors. Buying a chip from Intel or licensee Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is the only real way to use this instruction set. And Intel is the only company that can change it.The other instruction set is the basis of all major smartphone components. It is owned by Arm, a unit of Softbank Group Corp. This can be licensed for a fee, so other companies use it to design their own chips. But again, only Arm can alter the fundamentals.This has left the rest of the industry relying on the innovation of just two companies. That was not a problem for decades because most processors were general-purpose components that got faster and more efficient each year through production advances. Those industry axioms are unraveling, though. The steady march of chip miniaturization has bumped up against the laws of physics, while artificial intelligence and a flood of data from the internet and smartphones require new ways of processing information. A fresh set of instructions will help create better chips to power driverless cars, speech recognition and other AI tasks, RISC-V’s backers say.Google is using RISC-V in its OpenTitan project, which is developing security chips for data center servers and storage devices. “There are a range of other computational tasks, such as machine learning, that could benefit from an open computing architecture,” said Urs Holzle, who has overseen the technical infrastructure of Google’s massive data centers for years.Samsung said it will use SiFive designs in chips it’s making for mobile phone components. RISC-V has appeared in microcontrollers – a basic form of a processor – that are part of more complex chips sold by Qualcomm and Nvidia. Western Digital Corp., one of the largest makers of data-storage devices, plans to use the technology in some products and has open-sourced its designs. Alibaba has announced a chip based on RISC-V and several universities have published open-source designs.There are 200 Chinese members of the RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit group created in 2015 to promote the use of the instruction set. An Indian project developed six processors using the technology.RISC-V specifications are developed, ratified and maintained by the foundation’s technical committee, made up of engineers and other contributors from several member companies. Proposed revisions are posted on GitHub. RISC-V designs can either be free or licensed. While there’s no strict requirement to stick to the official specifications, members have an incentive to make their designs compatible. This gives chip customers multiple options for the blueprints they need to design components that communicate properly with the software, according to backers of the project.It’s still very early days, though. In terms of actual chips created, sold and used, RISC-V is nowhere. Arm’s technology is in almost all the 1.4 billion smartphones made each year. More than 200 million PCs sold annually are based on Intel’s X86 instruction set.One criticism of RISC-V is that it won’t end up saving money because there’s more work involved in using open standards. This echoes complaints raised about Linux and other open-source software when they were gaining ground decades ago.Arm said the idea that RISC-V reduces costs doesn’t make sense. “Innovation goes far beyond an instruction set,” said Tim Whitfield, a vice president of strategy at the company. “Arm’s IP is highly configurable and provides our partners with the flexibility to innovate and differentiate where they can add real value while minimizing risk and cost.”Martin Fink, Western Digital’s former chief technology officer who still advises the CEO, said it’s about spurring innovation in a crucial field that’s still locked down, rather than saving money. “It’s free as in freedom not as in free beer,” he added. “It’s about community and collaboration.”Other RISC-V backers argue that the more-collaborative process will eventually reduce the cost of creating chips, especially for data center operators and other companies that are increasingly designing their own processors, according to David Patterson, a former Berkeley professor and a distinguished engineer at Google. “Companies all over the world are collaborating to develop because it saves them money,” he said.Pressure on the incumbents to step up their game might be the biggest immediate impact of RISC-V. Last year, Arm announced a try-before-you-buy plan with a much lower fee so smaller companies and academic institutions could do exploratory work using its instruction set.Intel said it is adding new instructions that will help with AI processing and other new areas. “Intel engineers have continually advanced the X86 architecture standard, providing best-in-class performance,” the company added in a statement. Qualcomm, one of Arm’s biggest customers, sees room for multiple approaches, including RISC-V, according to Keith Kressin, a senior vice president of product management at Qualcomm.To contact the reporter on this story: Ian King in San Francisco at ianking@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jillian Ward at jward56@bloomberg.net, Alistair Barr, Vlad SavovFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
- Zacks
Google's Airtel Deal to Bolster Its Cloud Presence in India
Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google inks deal with Airtel per which the latter gets authority to offer G Suite to small and medium businesses.
- Barrons.com
IBM Stock Is Surging, J&J Slips as China Virus Fears Fade and the Dow Gains
Global markets are getting a reprieve from Tuesday’s losses after Chinese authorities stepped up measures to contain the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus.
- Zacks
Aspen, Carpenter Technology, Netflix, IBM and United Airlines highlighted as Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day
Aspen, Carpenter Technology, Netflix, IBM and United Airlines highlighted as Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day
- MarketWatch
Dow getting a 22-point boost from IBM's stock rally, J&J's decline after earnings
The premarket stock moves of companies reporting earnings would add about a net 22 points to the Dow Jones Industrial Average's price, as a rally in International Business Machines Corp. shares more than offset a drop in Johnson & Johnson's stock . Dow futures rose 79 points. IBM's stock surged 4.0% toward a 3 1/2-month high ahead of the open, with the implied price gain acting as a 37-point boost to the Dow's price. IBM reported late Tuesday revenue that surprisingly increased from a year ago and an adjusted profit that beat expectations. Johnson & Johnson shares slipped 1.5% after the consumer products and pharmaceutical company topped fourth-quarter profit expectations but came up a bit shy on revenue, with the implied price decline acting as a 15-point drag on the Dow.
- Investor's Business Daily
Dow Jones Futures Climb As Stock Market Resists China Virus; 3 Tech Giants Rise Near Buy Points As Tesla Hits Milestone
Futures rose as the market rally resists China virus fears. Netflix subscriber growth and IBM earnings beat, sending both stocks higher. Tesla just kept racing. ASML earnings were in line.
- MarketWatch
IBM stock rallies after earnings show surprise revenue gain
International Business Machines Corp. shares rose in the extended session Tuesday after the technology giant turned in a surprise revenue gain, its first year-over-year sales increase in more than a year.
- American City Business Journals
IBM CFO: Big Blue and Red Hat are 'truly better together'
Six months after IBM’s $34 billion buy of Red Hat closed, the Raleigh-based open source software firm is growing underneath its new parent.
