International Business Machines (IBM)

Exchange
NYSE
Symbol
IBM
Sector
Technology
Industry
Computer & Office Equipment
Description
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed International Business Machines in 1924. IBM is incorporated in New York. IBM produces and sells computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a major research organization, holding the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business (as of 2020) for 28 consecutive years. Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360, was the dominant computing platform during the 1960s and 1970s.
Country
USA

Stock price

At close: November 6, 2024

  • Open
    213.48
  • High
    214.33
  • Low
    210.37
  • Close
    213.60
  • Volume
    3,934,390

Financial ratios

Dec 31, 2023

Activity ratios
Inventory turnover
23.74
Receivables turnover
8.01
Payables turnover
6.67
Working capital turnover
—
Days of inventory on hand (DOH)
15.38
Days of sales outstanding (DSO)
45.58
Number of days of payables
54.72
Fixed asset turnover
—
Total asset turnover
0.46
 Liquidity ratios
Current ratio
0.96
Quick ratio
0.62
Cash ratio
0.39
Cash conversion cycle
6.23
 Solvency ratios
Debt-to-assets ratio
0.37
Debt-to-capital ratio
0.69
Debt-to-equity ratio
2.22
Financial leverage ratio
6.00
Interest coverage
6.40
 Profitability ratios
Gross profit margin
55.45%
Operating profit margin
13.11%
Pretax margin
14.03%
Net profit margin
12.13%
Operating return on assets (Operating ROA)
6.00%
Return on assets (ROA)
5.55%
Return on total capital
14.16%
Return on equity (ROE)
33.29%