The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who didn’t). Let’s take a look at how it services & consulting stocks fared in Q1, starting with IBM (NYSE:IBM).
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IBM just suffered its worst single-week collapse since 1968, yet one prominent analyst refuses to budge from a price target that implies more than 60% upside. What he sees in the wreckage that the sellers are missing could reshape the entire enterprise AI trade.
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An earnings scare has sent the stock reeling, hitting a new 52-week low along the way.
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AI spending narrative dominated markets as investors favored chipmakers and infrastructure firms while software stocks faced pressure.
Alphabet, Tesla, and Intel are among the key companies reporting their second-quarter results later this week.
The biggest concern among investors is that IBM will lower its full-year 2026 guidance when it releases its full, official Q2 report.
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IBM (NYSE:IBM) has joined Unipart Group Limited and KBR, Inc. to form the Team ORION alliance. The alliance will deliver advanced logistics and resilient digital frameworks to the UK Ministry of Defence. The agreement positions IBM as a core technology provider in a mission critical government contract focused on defense digital transformation. For investors watching IBM, Team ORION adds a new angle to the company’s focus on hybrid cloud, software and consulting. Defense customers often...
IBM’s board faced an uncomfortable decision after learning that the company’s second quarter had fallen well short of expectations. Directors can now take a breather and wait until the scheduled earnings release and let executives explain the results in detail. Or they could warn investors ...
After a steep post-update decline, IBM now has one earnings report to rebuild investor confidence.
Markets face a potentially volatile week as AI bubble fears intensify amid concerns that technology sector repricing has not yet reached equilibrium, coinciding with earnings season ramping dramatically through late July.
With Oppenheimer's downgrade and a complete withdrawal of its price target following IBM's 25% single-day post-earnings drop, where will IBM go from here? Investors are wondering.
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) lost 25.2% on July 14, erasing about $68 billion in market value in the stock’s worst session on record. At first glance, the sell-off appears contradictory amid the still-robust AI investment cycle. Gartner expects worldwide AI spending to jump 47% to $2.59 trillion in 2026, with $1.43 trillion going to […]
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