IBMIBM
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: growth expectations in line with delivery and in its normal P/E range.
Priced for ~3% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 5% a year.
In its normal range: P/E 20.1 vs a 17.3 median over 41 quarters (+16% vs median).
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What IBM's price assumes
IBM trades at 20.1× earnings against 17.2× for the median Information Technology Services name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Information Technology Services median 17.2 · 1.17× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.39
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 5.9%
Free cash flow yield · Information Technology Services median 12%
- Growth the price implies
- +3.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +3.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +8.2% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 6.80
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 4.27
- Technology median P/E459 names
- 37.7
- Information Technology Services median P/E46 names
- 17.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $13.8B
- Market capitalisation
- $234.1B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.5%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +8.2%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $115.53 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $195.60 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $262.96 |
| 52-week range | $206.15 – $329.23 |
| Today | $226.85 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
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