The world’s largest IT service provider, IBM, has retracted in the fourth quarter of a billion in earnings, although sales continued to shrink. Both Figures are above expectations, so the share got off to a leap of Joy.
In after-hours trading on Wall Street, IBM shares have jumped in a weak overall market, up to seven percent to about $ 130 in the height. The increase is balm for the soul of the hard-pressed shareholders, they had to endure but in the past year, a rate of fall of IBM-share of 36 percent.
growth in some of the newer business areas such as Cloud services, data analysis and artificial intelligence, fueled the mood of investors. In addition, IBM was also with his Outlook on the rest of the year to the forecasts.
Rometty turning looks made
Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, IBM
“in 2018, we have returned to a year-round sales growth, driven by our service areas and in leadership positions in the Hybrid Cloud, Artificial intelligence, data analysis, and safety technology,” said CEO Virginia “Ginni” Rometty.
the Numbers look at first glance as well. In the final quarter, revenue fell compared with the previous year’s figure of 3.5 per cent to 21.8 billion dollars. The net result is to put hard to 1.95 billion dollars, after a year ago, a loss of 1.05 billion dollars. However, a high depreciation because of the U.S. tax reform had been destroyed by hail, the balance sheet in the previous year, which distorted the comparison. The operating profit fell by eight percent to $ 4.4 billion.
Beyond expectations
Nevertheless, the Numbers exceeded expectations. However, the group continues to suffer from the weakness in the traditional Hardware division. Another Problem is the strong Dollar reduces the international income after conversion into local currency.
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The U.S. company makes its revenues mostly in foreign countries. In the total year 2019 IBM managed at least a Mini-plus in revenue, to $ 79.6 billion. The Surplus amounted to 8.7 billion to $ 5.75 billion dollars in the previous year.
the Integration of Red hat
The revenue share of Ginni Rometty selected future fields exceeded in the year as a whole for the first time, the brand of 50 percent of the total revenue. The so-called “Strategic Imperatives” such as Cloud Computing or Artificial intelligence to replace the old fields of business to IBM, successively.
Whether the conversion of the former Hardware vendor to a Cloud-manage specialists, also depends on the Integration of software manufacturer Red hat, IBM in October for $ 34 billion. Until the middle of 2019, the acquisition is to be completed. The Takeover was controversial, because the purchase price corresponded to a premium of 60 percent on the most recent market value.
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source: boerse.ard.de
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