Several research firms have commented on IBM.
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Displaying a price of $159.72, International Business Machines Corp. Its strategic imperatives are growing as a percentage of its top line, but their margins are questionable, and they continue to be weighed down by the company’s legacy businesses. Additionally, Sky’s move away from magnetic tape-based workflows accelerated the need for a more efficient file-based solution that is reliable, secure and fast to acquire content from suppliers and share materials internally. International Business Machines Corp. has been the topic of 46 analyst reports since September 22, 2015 according to StockzIntelligence Inc.
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07/19/2016 – International Business Machines Corporation had its “market perform” rating reiterated by analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein. 3 analysts have suggested “Sell” for the company. But the stock was ranked Underweight by 0 number of analysts in current phase while overall the consensus rank was for Hold.
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM): After opening at $159.88, the stock dipped to an intraday low of $159.15 on Friday. It has a past 5-day performance of 0.78 percent and trades at an average volume of 3.32M shares. In contrast, the average volume was 3314680 shares. The stock’s price moved up its 200-day moving average of $62.60. Further, it is possible that the company may register per share earnings of $4.95 in the near-term quarter and $13.51 for the ongoing fiscal. The technology company reported $2.95 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $2.89 by $0.06. Now shares have been rated as “Buy” from 2 Analysts. The company earned $20.20 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $20.03 billion.
Today, I’ll focus on IBM’s biggest failure of the year – failing to break its streak of 17 consecutive quarters of year-over-year revenue declines. On average, equities research analysts predict that International Business Machines Corp. will post $13.51 EPS for the current year. The transaction of the trades on downticks amounted to $48.85 million, which confirms investors selling on the strength of price. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, August 8th.
To accommodate long-term intention, the firm has diverse dividend or yield record, IBM has Dividend Yield of 3.51% and experts calculate Return on Investment of 23.40%.
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A forward P/E ratio of 11.3 and a 3.5% dividend yield makes International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) too alluring for dividend investors to ignore, especially since it’s knee-deep in transforming itself from a stodgy PC and networking company into a cloud, analytics, engagement, and security giant. The Firm operates through five divisions: Global Technology Services (GTS), Global Business Services (GBS), Software, Systems Hardware and Global Financing.
