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IBM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION StockScouter® Report

10

StockScouter® Score

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, a large cap value company in the technology sector, is expected to outperform the market over the next six months with slightly less than average risk

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Summary

Positives

  • Earnings growth in the past year has accelerated rapidly compared to earnings growth in the past three years. Positive
  • The enterprise value-to-sales ratio is lower than the average for comparably-sized companies in the StockScouter universe. Positive
  • The multi-period measure of relative price change and consistency is above average. Positive/Neutral

 

Concerns

  • The ratio of IBM’s forward price-to-earnings multiple to its estimated growth rate is well above the average of comparably-sized companies in the StockScouter universe. Negative

 

Short-term Outlook

Over the next 1-2 months, StockScouter forecasts that large cap stocks will be neutral, value stocks will be neutral, and technology stocks will be neutral.

Expected Risk/Return

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Core Model Grades

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Previous Ratings

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