Oppenheimer Downgrades IBM After Earnings Miss Triggers Massive Sell-Off

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Oppenheimer downgraded International Business Machines to Perform from Outperform after the company's preliminary second-quarter results fell short of expectations across all major business segments. IBM generated preliminary second-quarter revenue of $17.2 billion, below both Oppenheimer's estimate and Wall Street forecasts, with the shortfall attributed to weaker demand for transaction processing software, customers shifting spending toward servers and storage, and delays in closing several large contracts near the end of the quarter. The brokerage said those headwinds could make it more challenging for IBM to meet its full-year guidance and achieve its targeted double-digit constant-currency software growth in 2026 and 2027, adding that while businesses including Red Hat, HashiCorp, Confluent, and the server and storage segments remained areas of strength, they were not enough to offset broader weakness. Oppenheimer noted that IBM's longer-term investment case remains intact but may take more time to develop as enterprise technology spending continues to shift toward artificial intelligence infrastructure and related hardware.

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Quantum Computing▼ · 1 stocks

Off-coverage companies 2

Confluent, Inc.Private± Mixed
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Mentioned as an area of strength but not enough to offset IBM's broader weakness; no direct impact on Confluent.

Red Hat, Inc.Private± Mixed
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Mentioned as an area of strength but not enough to offset IBM's broader weakness; no direct impact on Red Hat.

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