During the recent session, International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM)’s traded shares were 1.08 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.68. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $284.86, reflecting an intraday loss of -1.82% or -$5.28. The 52-week high for the IBM share is $296.16, that puts it down -3.97 from that peak though still a striking 38.76% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $174.45. The company’s market capitalization is $264.74B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 3.33 million shares, and the average trade volume was 4.08 million shares over the past three months.
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.35. IBM has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 12 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 8 recommend a Buy rating for it.
International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM) trade information
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) registered a -1.82% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -1.82% in intraday trading to $284.86, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.97%, and it has moved by 4.70% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 29.58%. The short interest in International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM) is 18.93 million shares and it means that shorts have 5.28 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $206, which implies a decrease of -38.28% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $170 and $242 respectively. As a result, IBM is trading at a premium of 15.05% off the target high and 40.32% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -9.46%. While earnings are projected to return 5.88% in 2025, the next five years will return 6.38% per annum.
IBM Dividends
International Business Machines Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-23. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for International Business Machines Corp is 6.69, with the dividend yield indicating at 2.35 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 4.41%.
International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM)’s Major holders
International Business Machines Corp insiders own 0.12% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 65.27%, with the float percentage being 65.35%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 4010.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 89.13 million shares (or 9.6855% of all shares), a total value of $15.42 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 75.37 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 8.1898% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $13.04 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of International Business Machines Corp (IBM) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 29.29 shares. This amounts to just over 3.15 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $8.39 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 25.69, or about 2.76% of the stock, which is worth about $7.36 billion.
