“This was due to an increase in cash provided by total receivables primarily driven by financing receivables, and an increase in performance-related improvements within net income, partially offset by higher inventory levels to support anticipated customer dem…”10-Q · Jul 23, 2026 ↗
International Business Machines Corporation
IBM
Market read
International Business Machines Corporation's move is being confirmed by its market group.
No new filing conclusion is available. 5 of 35 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 18 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- At least 23 of 35 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- A filing-linked outsider such as ASAN begins moving with the group.
Invalidation: The live read weakens if participation falls to 12 of 35 members or fewer.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 5 of 35 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 18 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- At least 23 of 35 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- A filing-linked outsider such as ASAN begins moving with the group.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +7.6% year over year.
- Net margin changed +6.1 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 3 filings.
- Macroeconomic conditions has repeated favorable evidence across 3 filings.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 3 filings.
- P/E is 80% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 565% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
234.03Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“This was due to an increase in cash provided by total receivables primarily driven by financing receivables, and an increase in performance-related improvements within net income, partially offset by higher inventory levels to support anticipated customer dem…”10-Q · Jul 23, 2026 ↗
“The year-to-year change was primarily driven by higher unallocated reserve requirements in the prior year as a result of the economic conditions.”10-Q · Apr 23, 2026 ↗
“The increase was primarily driven by performance-related improvements within net income, partially offset by higher interest payments on debt and increased investments in capital expenditures.”10-Q · Apr 23, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 3.3× · EV/sales 3.9×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 10 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for IBM. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for IBM. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind IBM
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.partnerFeb 24, 2026 ▾
“Our strategic partners include: Adobe, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, Samsung Electronics and SAP, among others.”
CRMSalesforce, Inc.partnerFeb 24, 2026 ▾
“Our strategic partners include: Adobe, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, Samsung Electronics and SAP, among others.”
Depended on by
QMCOQuantum CorporationcompetitorJun 25, 2026 ▾
“Our primary storage solutions, including object storage systems, primarily face competition from the EMC business unit of Dell Inc.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
IBM is currently a Participant in the organic co-movement group Software Stocks. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.