International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) does about 5.08M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 3544838 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 167.10B USD. Its current market price is $182.27, marking a decrease of -1.95% compared to the previous close of $185.90. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $199.18 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $120.55.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has a 20-day trading average at $189.59 and the current price is -8.49% off the 52-week high compared with 51.20% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $188.55 and its 200-day simple moving average is $159.46. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.51%, which decreases to 1.50% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 36.07 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $188.34, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 3.22% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 19, 2024 when Evercore ISI upgraded the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of between $165 and $200. Societe Generale downgraded its price target at $143.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) stock is down -3.63% over the week and -7.34% over the past month. Its price is 11.45% year-to-date and 41.80% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 3.22 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 9.97% and return on equity of 33.79%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 22.44 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 17.09. The beta has a value of 0.71. Price to book ratio is 7.40 and price to sales ratio is 2.70.
