The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

IBM

Concerning the House

International Business Machines Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated solutions and services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through Software, Consulting, Infrastructure, and Financing segments. The Software segment offers hybrid cloud and AI platforms that allow clients to realize their digital and AI transformations across the applications, data, and environments in which they operate. The Consulting segment delivers strategy and technology services and intelligent operations, providing business transformation, technology implementation, managed services, application modernization, and AI-powered solutions. The Infrastructure segment provides on-premises and cloud-based server, and storage solutions, as well as life-cycle services for hybrid cloud infrastructure deployment. The Financing segment offers client and commercial financing, and facilitates IBM clients' acquisition of hardware, software, and services. It operates a data streaming platform. The company has strategic partnerships with various companies, including hyperscalers, service providers, global system integrators, and software and hardware vendors that include Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Samsung Electronics and SAP, and others. It also has a strategic collaboration with Arm Holdings plc for the development of new dual-architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads; strategic partnership with three.ws to advance ai-powered 3d agent technology; and collaboration with Lightwell to help strengthen open source software supply chain. Additionally, it offers operational resilience, logistics, and future-ready technology to the UK Ministry of Defence through Team ORION. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. and changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation in 1924. International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, New York.

United States · www.ibm.com

The Long Run

FY 2009–2025 · 17 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$61.86B-3.2%
Gross profit$35.55B-1.0%
Net income$10.59B-2.7%
Cash from ops$13.19B-4.4%
Quotation

$237.14

+1.16 (+0.5%)

52w hi$326.89
52w lo$204.30
Vol4.59M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.15

Short-0.45
Medium+0.01
Long+0.15

computed 2026-08-12

By the Numbers

International Business Machines Corporation

Technology · Information Technology Services

Market cap$223.42B
Enterprise value$279.55B
Trailing P/E21.06x
Forward P/E18.00x
EV / EBITDA16.97x
P / S (ttm)3.23x
Profit margin15.5%
Return on equity34.5%
Revenue growth+1.1%
Earnings growth-1.8%
Debt / equity188.97
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.76
Corr SPX0.31
Annual vol39.7%
Annual ret+18.6%
Sharpe0.47
Max DD-37.5%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.17
Sector+0.14
Technical-0.23
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-12

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$238.92$239.71$233.61$237.144.59M
Aug 12$236.95$237.46$231.68$235.985.70M
Aug 11$236.31$241.80$235.44$238.424.47M
Aug 10$235.00$240.74$234.13$236.317.35M
Aug 7$235.38$237.32$232.72$237.284.76M