International Business Machines (IBM) closed at $251.46 on October 21, 2026, up 3.9% from the previous close, on volume of 7,154,104 shares (30-day average 5,537,584).
Data as of October 21, 2026.
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Incorporated in 1911, International Business Machines, or IBM, is one of the oldest technology companies in the world. It provides software, IT consulting services, and hardware to help business customers modernize their technology workflows. IBM operates in 175 countries and employs approximately 300,000 people. The company has a robust roster of business partners to service its clients, which includes 95% of all Fortune 500 companies. IBM's products, including Red Hat, watsonx, and mainframes, handle some of the world's most important data workloads in areas like finance and retail.
International Business Machines trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol IBM.
As of October 22, 2026, IBM stock price declined to $244.41 with 2,284,690 million shares trading.
IBM has a beta of 1.36, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. IBM has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.
IBM has a market cap of $230.27 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.
Last quarter International Business Machines reported $17 billion in Revenue and $2.95 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $255 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.08.
In the last 3 years, IBM traded as high as $332.46 and as low as $135.87.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that IBM belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VTV.
IBM has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -11.0%, while SPY returned +15.4%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in IBM shares. However, IBM has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +16.9% and +10.8%, while SPY returned +2.8% and -1.3%, respectively. This indicates IBM has been having a stronger performance recently.
IBM support price is $246.26 and resistance is $256.66 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that IBM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
