International Business Machines Corp (NYSE: IBM): Reassessing Prospects

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $245.48, with 7.54 million shares of worth about $1.85 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 5.72% during that period and on April 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.90%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 927.26M shares, out of which, 926.38M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 1.99% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -1.20%. Year-to-date (YTD), IBM shares are showing a performance of 11.67% which increased to 35.19% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $162.62 but also hit the highest price of $266.45 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for International Business Machines Corp shares is 5.15 million. The stock is currently trading 2.55% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -1.06% for SMA50 and it goes to 10.15% higher than SMA200.

International Business Machines Corp (NYSE: IBM) currently have 927.26M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 63.30% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $227.62B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.62. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 38.25, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.42 in the same period. Its PEG reads 6.81 and has Quick Ratio of 0.97 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.14. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for IBM, volatility over the week remained 2.53% while standing at 3.60% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 4.28% while it is estimated to increase by 6.08% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 5.62% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -9.46% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Oppenheimer on February 11, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $320 to it. On October 02, 2024, DZ Bank Downgrade their recommendations, while on June 24, 2024, Goldman Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $200. Stock get an Underperform rating from Exane BNP Paribas on May 02, 2024.

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