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?

avatarkoolgal
07-16 07:28
Is IBM A Buy or A Bye? 🌟🌟🌟The market is reeling from a historic tech earthquake.  On Tuesday $IBM(IBM)$  saw an astonishing USD 67 billion in market vanish into thin air.  Craters like this simply do not happen to bedrock tech giants.  This single day 25.2% plunge was worse than IBM's crash on Black Monday in 1987.  On Wednesday, IBM's selloff continues. The source of the carnage?  An unusually candid concession from CEO Arvind Krishna.  In a preliminary Q2 warning, Krishna admitted the firm faltered, missing revenue expectations by only achieving a measly 1% growth of USD 17.2 billion vs the USD 17.85 billion expected.  The infrastructure division plummeted 7% and software grow
avatarTiger_comments
07-15 17:10

IBM Plunges 25%: Is Corporate IT Spending Moving From Software to AI Hardware?

$IBM(IBM)$ 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%: Is Corporate IT Spending Moving From Software to AI Hardware?
avatarLaw82
07-16 11:00
Time to input Oracle before it become a bull.. do it before the observers..
avatarLanceljx
07-15 22:16
 IBM's miss looks company-specific, but management's commentary is more interesting than the headline. If customers are genuinely pulling forward spending on servers, storage and memory ahead of expected price increases, that suggests AI infrastructure demand remains robust rather than weakening. I wouldn't call this a full software-to-hardware rotation yet. Enterprise IT budgets are finite, so near-term spending can temporarily favour infrastructure before shifting back to software once capacity is deployed. Companies with slower AI monetisation may also face greater scrutiny. My view: this is a tactical rotation, not a structural one. AI hardware, especially memory and networking, could continue to outperform in the coming quarters if supply stays tight. Longer term, however, hardwa
avatarLanlanCC
07-15 16:48
Starbucks announced that it would use AI-developed internal software to replace IBM's device maintenance management system, cutting its technical budget by about $30 million annually. Although Starbucks tried to build its own AI software, it recently was forced to cancel the project and resume manual inventory due to inaccurate inventory tracking system. This fully proves that non-tech companies have very little fault tolerance for trying to "full self-developed AI replacement", and that the enterprise-level services of traditional IT giants are not as fragile as the market expects.
avatarmushrooz
07-15 23:47
Yes those os are very good news to buy more
avatarLanlanCC
07-15 16:49
IBM's loss of a quarter of its market capitalization margin of safety, which is a potential opportunity for a very deep reverse investment.
avatarIrimaana
07-15 12:19
Still don't know what to do but I'm touching everything 😭 
avatar奇毅
07-15 05:06
avatarmastersmit
07-15 01:03
$IBM$  everyone should pump in funds, there is no way IBM can lose its shine. It's a staple company -- 
avatarMulltov
07-14 22:10
Its dip , right time to buy