IBM (IBM) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What IBM does

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) provides integrated solutions and services across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through four segments: Software, Consulting, Infrastructure, and Financing. The Software segment offers hybrid cloud and AI platforms; the Consulting segment delivers strategy, technology services, and intelligent operations; the Infrastructure segment provides on-premises and cloud-based server and storage solutions; and the Financing segment offers client and commercial financing. IBM also operates a data streaming platform.

Key numbers explained

• 232.76 USD is the current share price — the last traded price on the US market.
• +0.6% is the price change today, showing the intraday move relative to the previous close.
• 219.29B USD is the market capitalisation, the total value of all outstanding shares.
• The trailing P/E ratio of 20.7 divides the current price by the last 12 months of earnings per share (11.27 USD), a common way to compare a stock's price to its recent earnings.
• The forward P/E ratio of 17.7 uses expected future earnings, giving a sense of how the market prices in growth.
• A dividend yield of 2.92% means the annual dividend represents about 2.92% of the current share price.
• 0.71 is the beta, a measure of volatility relative to the market; a beta below 1 suggests lower volatility.
• 199.19 – 332.46 is the 52-week price range, showing the lowest and highest prices over the past year.

Recent news

Recent headlines note that IBM gains 2.2% as the z17 enters an agentic AI laboratory, and that THG and IBM signed a global partnership to bring IDTrust as an agentic AI identity solution on the IBM Cloud Catalog. Other stories in the feed cover a Verizon AI training programme, a former Trump economic adviser's view on Nvidia chip sales to China, Gary Cohn's comments on Meta's Muse, and a broader look at Palantir's growth drivers.

What to watch

Investors tracking IBM often look at its position within the S&P 500 and its relationships with peers such as Seagate Technology (STX), Corning Inc. (GLW), Cisco (CSCO), F5, Inc. (FFIV), KLA Corporation (KLAC), and NXP Semiconductors (NXPI). General factors that can affect a stock like this include interest rate changes, corporate spending on technology and AI, currency movements, and broader market sentiment. The next earnings report, scheduled for Oct 21, 2026, is a key date for updated financials.