International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM) has a beta value of 0.66 and has seen 1.15 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $271.68B, closed the recent trade at $292.32 per share which meant it lost -$1.47 on the day or -0.50% during that session. The IBM stock price is -0.69% off its 52-week high price of $294.34 and 41.7% above the 52-week low of $170.41. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 4.25 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 4.43 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that International Business Machines Corp (IBM) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.32. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 4 out of 12 have rated it as a Hold, with 8 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM) trade information
Sporting -0.50% in the red today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the IBM stock price touched $292.32 or saw a rise of 1.3%. Year-to-date, International Business Machines Corp shares have moved 69.50%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 3.28%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM) have changed 13.03%. Short interest in the company has seen 19.78 million shares shorted with days to cover at 5.22.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $206, which means that the shares’ value could drop -41.9% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $170.0 while the price target rests at a high of $242.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is 17.21% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 41.84% from the levels at last check today..
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 30.55% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -9.46% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 5.81% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 6.30%.
IBM Dividends
International Business Machines Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-23 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 6.69 at a share yield of 2.29%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 4.46%.
International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.12% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 65.27% with a share float percentage of 65.35%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with International Business Machines Corp having a total of 4010.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 89.13 million shares worth more than $15.42 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.6855% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 75.37 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $13.04 billion and represent 8.1898% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.15% shares in the company for having 29.29 shares of worth $8.53 billion while later fund manager owns 25.69 shares of worth $7.48 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.76% of company’s outstanding stock.
