International Business Machines Corp  IBM

Summary (from latest annual report – 2014)

• Total equity  : 11.86 billion USD
• Market Cap is 118.7 billion USD ( last price of the stock is 122.17 USD)
• International Business Machines Corp is an Information Technology (IT) company. It creates business value for clients and solves business problems through integrated solutions that leverage information technology & knowledge of business processes
• Equity of total company decreased from 22.79 billion USD in 2013 to 11.86 billion in 2014
• Company has 8.47 billion USD in cash on account (from latest annual report  2014 year)
• Total equity – cash on account = 11.86 billion usd – 8.47 billion usd = 3.39 billion usd
• In 2014 company has 35.07 billion usd long-term debt, short – term debt was 5.73 billion usd (In 2013 company had 32.85 billion usd long-term debt , short-term debt was 6.86 billion usd)
• IBM balance sheet has become weaker in 2014 (In latest annual report - total equity decreased to 11.86 billion  USD from 22.79 in 2013, total debt was 40.8 billion usd in 2014)
• Company's revenue decreased in 2014 to 92.79 billion usd from 99.75 billion in 2013
• Net income decreased in 2014 to 12.02 billion USD from 16.48 billion usd in 2013
• In 2014 company paid 4.6 billion usd dividend to its shareholders

Opinion about the company

Fundamentally it is a good company and in the future we can expect its growth (Total debt is very big (40.8 billion usd), big amount of cash on company's account, ROE is around 100 %).

International Business Machines Corp  IBM

International Business Machines Corp is an Information Technology (IT) company. It creates business value for clients and solves business problems through integrated solutions that leverage information technology & knowledge of business processes.

During the last 100 years, IBM has acquired more than 270 companies. The company spent about 37 billion usd on the acquisitions of 146 companies since 2000

• In 2015 IBM acquired : Clearleap, Inc., Merge Healthcare Inc., StrongLoop, Inc., Compose Inc., Phytel, AlchemyAPI, Gravitant, Cleversafe, Inc., Meteorix LLC, Blue Box Group, Inc., Explorys (2 billion usd worth)
• In period from 2011 - 2014 IBM acquired: Emptoris Inc., DemandTec, Q1 Labs, i2, Cúram Software Ltd., Platform Computing, Algorithmics, Tririga, StoredIQ, Texas Memory Systems. Tealeaf Technology, Inc., Vivisimo, Green Hat, Butterfly Software Ltd., Kenexa, Varicent Software, Worklight, Aspera, Inc., Xtify Inc., Daeja Image Systems Ltd., CSL International, UrbanCode, Fiberlink Communications, The Now Factory, Trusteer, SoftLayer, Star Analytics, Inc., Lighthouse, Security Group, Silverpop, CrossIdeas, Cloudant ( 8 billion usd worth)
• In period from 2000 – 2010 IBM spent 27 billion usd on the acquisitions of 116 companies

TOTAL = 37 billion usd

IBM major acquisitions (disclosed)

• Lotus  - 3.5 billion usd (1995 year)
• Tivoli systems - 740 million usd (1996 year)
• Informix Corporation - 1 billion usd
• PricewaterhouseCoopers - 3.5 billion usd
• Rational Software Corporation - 2.1 billion usd
• Daksh e-Services - 170 million usd
• Corio - 182 million usd
• Ascential Software Corporation - 1.1 billion usd
• Micromuse, Inc - 865 million usd
• MRO Software - 740 million usd
• FileNet Corporation - 1.6 billion usd
• Internet Security Systems (ISS) - 1.3 billion usd
• XIV - 350 million usd
• Cognos - 5 billion usd
• Telelogic AB - 845 million usd
• ILOG - 340 million usd
• SPSS Inc. - 1.2 billion usd
• Sterling Commerce - 1.4 billion usd
• Unica Corporation - 480 million usd
• Netezza - 1.7 billion usd
• Algorithmics Inc - 385 million usd
• Cloudant - 1 billion usd
• DemandTec -  440 million usd
• Kenexa Corporation - 1.4 billion usd
• SoftLayer Technologies - 2 billion usd
• Trusteer - 1 billion usd
• Merge Healthcare Inc - 1 billion usd

Total = 35.3 billion usd