IBM International Business Machines
Technology · Information Technology Services
238.42
+0.89%
About the company
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. 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.
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Dividend deep dive
International Business Machines (IBM) operates in the Information Technology Services sector. The company currently offers a dividend yield of 3.2% in USD. This yield falls within its 5-year range, which has seen a low of 2.49% and a high of 4.94%, with a 5-year average of 4.1%. IBM's dividend safety status is currently designated as "watch" by the provided data. The current market price for IBM shares is 211.465 USD.
Dividend history
IBM holds a Dividend Champion status, having increased its dividend for 29 consecutive years. Dividend payments are distributed quarterly in February, May, August, and November. Over the past three years, the dividend compounded annually at 0.60%, and over five years, it grew at 1.52%. The annual dividend per share has consistently risen, from 4.2065 USD in 2014 to 6.2333 USD in 2020. More recently, it was 6.64 USD in 2023, and is projected to be 6.72 USD in 2025.
Dividend safety
IBM's dividend appears to be covered by earnings, with a payout ratio of 59.82%. However, the company carries a high debt-to-equity ratio of 211.169.
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