International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)

poetx (< 20) Submitted: 3/08/07 10:29 AM : Start Price: $92.64 IBM Score: 39.46

This company is more diversified than most hi-tech concerns. Its hardware operations have held up in recent years as they've retooled to adapt mainframes to the internet age. Their services, which had hit a plateau of sorts after helping define the I...

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jwfoster (99.96) Submitted: 2/26/08 12:25 PM : Start Price: $112.79 IBM Score: -13.97

Pre-margined shares with a debt financed buyback. This place is a financial engineering fiasco in the making. Not a well run technology company. With all the debt being piled on to buy shares to marginally up guidance this company is a huge accide...

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irishmanbob (< 20) Submitted: 11/06/07 10:49 PM : Start Price: $112.67 IBM Score: 22.14

IBM, like many of the large cap stocks of late, has been languishing until recently. It's P/E ratio of 16-17 makes it look more like an old line manufacturing company rather than the high-flying technical innovative leader that it really is. IBM is ...

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KatWoman50 (95.17) Submitted: 4/04/07 12:06 PM : Start Price: $80.03 IBM Score: 54.17

IBM is intentionally growing through aquisitions. They have 10.6 B cash to fund these. They have also been chipping away at outstanding shares for years, boosting EPS. 15B operating cash flow and 1.3% div yield. Long term core holding.

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ptevans79 (75.62) Submitted: 10/09/06 9:34 PM : Start Price: $81.35 IBM Score: -53.28

The staggering size of this behemoth is going to keep this stock from going anywhere. This elephant ain't dancin' no more.

I could probably write 10,000 words on the difficulty of dealing with this bureaucracy both internally as an employee and, wor...

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jfjf88 (48.42) Submitted: 8/28/06 7:21 PM : Start Price: $78.45 IBM Score: 55.59

IBM is a formidable competitor in technology. Because of size, execution can be slow and over-complicated. But, in terms of intellectual capital and R&D, they are without peer. Recent moves are astute: 1) expansion in India; 2) making services mor...

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alopex (99.75) Submitted: 10/06/06 8:48 AM : Start Price: $79.85 IBM Score: -54.20

The problem with making money on outsourcing deals primarily now is that IBM picks up all the employees that the outsourcing companies don't want any longer. That will be a drag on overhead cost, and performance in the long run.

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PhotoScribbler (68.30) Submitted: 9/26/06 4:24 AM : Start Price: $80.14 IBM Score: 53.83

No one is paying attention to the deal with Magna electronics. IBM is positioning themselves to be the architect of "smart car" computer systems, and creating multiple business opportunities for themselves in terms of hardware, software, storage, ope...

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EV38 (99.91) Submitted: 1/19/07 11:05 AM : Start Price: $97.33 IBM Score: -34.23

What a surprise! IBM tanks after their earnings which beat estimates. A company this large and this average cannot go up 30%+ in one year. I know 9 people who worked at IBM and 8 of them have left, all of them saying what a bad company it is to work ...

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Ayax2006 (99.74) Submitted: 12/07/06 12:30 AM : Start Price: $91.98 IBM Score: 41.06

Increasing focus on software (higher margins) rather than services and hardware. Turnaround story that should payoff. Also, IBM processors are the core chips in all major videogame consoles. According to its CEO, IBM has top share in servers and L...

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