Wednesday, January 22, 2014

IBM Reports 4Q'13 Results and Analysts Say Boo!

IBM is not a GDT::Portfolio stock, but IBM reported 4Q'13 results and that means its end-of-year reporting season for 02013.

IBM's 4Q'13 did not meet Wall Street's expectations and right now, in pre-market trading on 02014.01.22, IBM is down 3.6%. IBM closed yesterday (02014.01.21) at $190.09. 52-week range: $172.57 - $215.90.

I found the following interesting.

"We continued to drive strong results across much of our portfolio and again grew earnings per share in 2013. While we made solid progress in businesses that are powering our future, in view of the company’s overall full year results, my senior team and I have recommended that we forgo our personal annual incentive payments for 2013." -- Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer

IBM ended 02013 with "$11.1 billion of cash on hand and generated free cash flow of $15.0 billion excluding Global Financing receivables, down approximately $3.2 billion year over year. The company returned $17.9 billion to shareholders through $4.1 billion in dividends and $13.9 billion of gross share repurchases."

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