International Business Machines Corporation (IBM): Price and Financial Metrics

IBM POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where IBM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.86% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for IBM is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 163 days.
• IBM ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 2nd percentile.

IBM Stock Summary

• IBM has a market capitalization of $117,319,421,787 -- more than approximately 97.97% of US stocks.
• International Business Machines Corp's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.74% of US equities in our set.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for IBM comes in at 14.25% -- higher than that of 86.44% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to International Business Machines Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be MMM, EL, BP, ANTM, and AMGN.
• Visit IBM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.ibm.com.

IBM Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Technology stock, IBM's EV/EBIT ratio is 20% lower, now standing at 25.8.
• Over the past 243 months, IBM's price/earnings ratio has gone up 3.4.
• IBM's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 10.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for IBM.

IBM Growth Metrics

The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 20.32%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -13.25%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at -2.64%.

IBM's revenue has moved down $6,376,000,000 over the prior 67 months.

The table below shows IBM's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	74,460	16,112	4,766
2021-06-30	74,402	17,684	5,334
2021-03-31	73,780	18,635	5,370
2020-12-31	73,620	18,197	5,590
2020-09-30	75,031	15,788	7,904
2020-06-30	75,499	15,122	7,878

IBM's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• IBM has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 89.89% of graded US stocks.
• IBM's asset turnover comes in at 0.491 -- ranking 64th of 83 Computers stocks.
• ATEN, FFIV, and ANET are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with IBM.

The table below shows IBM's key quality metrics over time.