I have been bullish on International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM ) stock for the past 2 years or so. As you can tell from the screenshot below, I’ve written As you can tell, our core style is to provide actionable and unambiguous ideas from our independent research. If your share this investment style, check out Envision Early Retirement. It provides at least 1x in-depth articles per week on such ideas.We have helped our members not only to beat S&P 500 but also avoid heavy drawdowns despite th ...

New offering designed to move SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days IBM realized 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and related operations over 18 months in RISE with SAP modernization project supporting 150,000 ERP users ARMONK, N.Y. and WALLDORF, Germany, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced the upcoming release of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, designed to make it the fastest and easiest path for IBM ...

The report found that 81% of surveyed executives and 96% of their teams are already using AI to a moderate or significant extent  Executives indicate they want to expand into more sophisticated AI use cases, such as integrated business planning where they plan to increase usage by 82% in 2025NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new global study from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value found that surveyed retail and consumer product executives are dramatically shifting their focus toward ar ...

The first phase of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom was undoubtedly defined by powerful large language models capable of a large variety of tasks. AI models like those that power ChatGPT can do a lot of things reasonably well, although they still output incorrect information and fabricated responses at times.The second phase will likely be defined by AI agents, which are narrow in focus and can be designed to autonomously handle related tasks. Imagine a customer service AI bot that can chat with custom ...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) recently announced that it has reached a settlement on the company’s ongoing legal issues with GlobalFoundries, Inc. (GFS) . The resolution includes the settlement of all disputes regarding breach of contract, trade secrets and intellectual property claims. The terms of the settlement have been kept confidential.BackgroundIBM sold its semiconductor plants to GlobalFoundries in 2015. In 2021, IBM filed a lawsuit against GlobalFoundries, accusing them of breac ...

In Brief The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM’s planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp would affect competition.The CMA said Monday it was inviting comment on the merger from interested parties by January 16. The regulator set a provisional February 25 deadline to decide whether to clear the deal or refer it for further review. As The Wall Street Journal reports, IBM announced it agreed to buy HashiCorp in April f ...

Investors might want to bet on IBM (IBM) , as it has been recently upgraded to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). This upgrade is essentially a reflection of an upward trend in earnings estimates -- one of the most powerful forces impacting stock prices.A company's changing earnings picture is at the core of the Zacks rating. The system tracks the Zacks Consensus Estimate -- the consensus measure of EPS estimates from the sell-side analysts covering the stock -- for the current and following years.The power of a changi ...

The Computer and Technology group has plenty of great stocks, but investors should always be looking for companies that are outperforming their peers. IBM (IBM) is a stock that can certainly grab the attention of many investors, but do its recent returns compare favorably to the sector as a whole? A quick glance at the company's year-to-date performance in comparison to the rest of the Computer and Technology sector should help us answer this question.IBM is a member of the Computer and Technology sector. T ...

IBM (IBM) closed at $221.93 in the latest trading session, marking a -0.64% move from the prior day. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.73%. Meanwhile, the Dow experienced a rise of 0.16%, and the technology-dominated Nasdaq saw an increase of 0.98%.Prior to today's trading, shares of the technology and consulting company had gained 0.17% over the past month. This has lagged the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 3.28% and the S&P 500's gain of 0.34% in that time.The upc ...

Looking for an undervalued AI opportunity at the doorstep of 2025? You should take a look at this tech giant before it's too late.A skeptical market is finally starting to see International Business Machines (IBM -0.25%) as a leading name in the artificial intelligence (AI) market. As a result, IBM's stock has gained a market-beating 37% in 2024 -- or 44% if you look at total returns with reinvested dividends.Is Big Blue still a buy after this swift rise, or is the growth engine running out of rocket fuel? ...