IBM Earnings Preview: Guidance And Consensus Indicates Decline In Revenue To Continue
Technology behemoth, IBM (NYSE:IBM) is set to report its Q1 2016 earnings on April 18th, 2016. In Q4 2015, its revenues declined by 2% in constant currency (9% as reported) to $22.1 billion due to declining revenue from middleware sales and the business services segment. However, new strategic initiatives — such as the Cloud, analytics, mobile computing, social media and security services — have helped the company to shore up its services revenues. Furthermore, systematic disinvestment from unprofitable hardware units have aided the company to post a higher profit margin during Q4 and 2015. In Q1 2016, the company expects the following:
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