IBM International Business Machines Corporation
Trend channel, buy level and 3-month target. Information only, not financial advice.
Inside the channel · 2-year channel rising
Price is between the lines.
- 2-year channel read from
- US$218.34 – US$369.87 · rising, +5% a year
- 12-month channel
- US$178.44 – US$312.10 · falling, −25% a year
- Price in channel
- 26% (0% = floor, 100% = ceiling)
- Ceiling overhead
- US$312.10
- Turns bearish below
- US$218.34
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -38% from US$329.542 June 2026 → 22 July 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This company1 of 7 Information Technology Services peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 42%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 86% of 12 comparable falls came back, typically in 24 days measured on its own peer group
Fell -38% (2 June 2026 → 22 July 2026); regained 42% so far; company-specific.
Buy and target use the recovery path, not the channel.
Reported at the time: IBM and Red Hat Launch Project Lightwell To Commit $5B To New AI Capabilities And 20K+ Engineers Globally For Securing Open Source Software — 28 May 2026
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
Updated 6:30 PM ET (17 h ago)
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (2 years)
- Lower trend line (2 years)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$257.84
level as at 1 Nov 2026
Our target
US$334.41
by 1 Apr 2027
Projected move
29.7%
gross, before costs
Price is at or below our buy.
Target: recovery of the recent fall.
This move size: reached in 27% of 11 past stretches, typically in 151 days. (0.20% per day)
8 settled calls · 6 reached target (75%) · average best move 8.5%. See the full record.
- Upper line touches
- 7
- Lower line touches
- 4
- Fit confidence
- 56%
- Fitted
- 1 Nov 2026
Company information
About International Business Machines Corporation
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) delivers comprehensive technology solutions and services across the globe. The company's operations are structured into four primary segments: Software, Consulting, Infrastructure, and Financing. The Software division provides hybrid cloud platforms and a range of software offerings, including Red Hat's enterprise open-source solutions. It also develops software for business automation, AIOps and management, integration, and application servers, in addition to data and artificial intelligence tools. This segment further supplies security software and services for threat, data, and identity management, and offers critical transaction processing software that supports essential on-premise workloads for industries such as banking, airlines, and retail. The Consulting arm delivers business transformation services, which encompass strategy development, business process design and operational improvements, data and analytics insights, and system integration. It additionally provides technology consulting and specialized application and cloud platform services. IBM's Infrastructure segment offers both on-premises and cloud-based server and storage solutions, specifically tailored for clients' crucial and regulated operations. It also extends support and solutions for hybrid cloud infrastructure, alongside remanufacturing and remarketing services for used equipment. The Financing segment provides various financial services, such as leasing, installment payment plans, loan financing, and short-term working capital solutions. Originally established in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., the company is now known as International Business Machines Corporation and maintains its headquarters in Armonk, New York.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Information Technology Services
- CEO
- Arvind Krishna
- Employees
- 264,300
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own scores from the fundamentals below (not Morningstar ratings).
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$237.52B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 0.72
- Avg volume
- 7.93M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
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- 52-week range
- 199.19-332.46
- Exchange
- NYSE
Key ratios
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Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted to past swing highs and lows and may not continue. Information only, not financial advice.