#376 24/01/2019 13h04
- PavelK
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WSJ a écrit :
IBM Gives Investors a Surprise Gift
That reaction might seem excessive for a mild surprise, but the storied tech giant has been prone to disappointing investors lately. Its shares had dropped following
13 of its past 16 earnings reports and had slid 16% since the latest report in October, when the growth-challenged company ended its brief run of actual growth. But that left IBM at a valuation of less than nine times forward earnings—one of the lowest for tech companies in the S& P 500.
In other words, Big Blue was priced on the assumption that things couldn’t get much worse. At the moment, they aren’t. The “strategic imperatives” that comprise IBM’s more promising growth businesses now account for half of total revenue. IBM also managed to lessen its reliance on licensing
intellectual property— widely seen as unsustainable.
Overall growth remains elusive, though, and IBM still has to justify its $33 billion acquisition of Red Hat, which should close in the second half of 2019. The hope is IBM can parlay that into a much stronger position in cloud computing.
It is an expensive gambit. Even with its postearnings bump, though, investors aren’t putting too much on the table.
MYC - Mind Your Cash (Chaîne YouTube). Parrainage: Boursorama, Fortuneo, Saxo Bank, Degiro
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