$IBM(IBM)$ IBM delivered one of the clearest signals yet that the AI boom is reshaping corporate technology budgets. The company’s shares plunged about 25% after it released preliminary second-quarter results below Wall Street expectations. IBM expects quarterly revenue of roughly $17.2 billion, up only 1% year over year and below the $17.86 billion analysts expected. Adjusted earnings are projected at $2.93 per share, versus the $3.02 consensus estimate. (Reuters) The headline numbers were disappointing, but the explanation was even more important. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said that during the final weeks of June, corporate clients redirected part of their quarterly capital spending toward servers, storage and memory. Customers wante
IBM Plunges 25%, Drags Software Stocks — Is a Style Rotation Underway?
IBM crashed 25.21% to $217 after Q2 revenue came in at approximately $17.2B, up just 1% and missing the ~$17.86B consensus, dragging Salesforce and peers lower. More telling: IBM noted late-June clients were shifting quarterly capex toward servers, storage, and memory to lock in capacity ahead of price hikes — explaining why hardware and semiconductors rallied while software sold off. Is this an isolated earnings miss, or the opening act of a software-to-hardware rotation?
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