
Chevron posted record production while IBM leaned on software to survive a mainframe slump, but the real battle between these two dividend stalwarts plays out in how much cash each company burns before shareholders collect a single cent.
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed International Business Machines in 1924. IBM is incorporated in New York. IBM produces and sells computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a major research organization, holding the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business (as of 2020) for 28 consecutive years. Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360, was the dominant computing platform during the 1960s and 1970s.
| Revenue (TTM) | $69.09B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $40.14B |
| EBITDA | $16.47B |
| Operating Margin | 16.60% |
| Return on Equity | 34.50% |
| Return on Assets | 5.30% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $73.70 |
| Book Value | $36.57 |
| Price-to-Book | 6.33 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 3.08 |
| EV/Revenue | 3.982 |
| EV/EBITDA | 15.66 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | -1.80% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 1.10% |
| Shares Outstanding | $942.13M |
| Float | $940.19M |
| % Insiders | 0.10% |
| % Institutions | 66.59% |
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Chevron posted record production while IBM leaned on software to survive a mainframe slump, but the real battle between these two dividend stalwarts plays out in how much cash each company burns before shareholders collect a single cent.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- National shareholder rights firm Hagens Berman is investigating potential violations of U.S. securities laws by blue chip company International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) after its CEO Arvind Krishna previewed disastrous Q2 2026 financial results on July 14, 2026.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Marist University and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new Innovation Incubator that will prepare students across fields of study to lead in a rapidly evolving digital economy.

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Funding for Anderon to help scale and expand access to quantum wafer technology ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Anderon LLC ("Anderon"), an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, announced the finalization of a $1 billion award under the CHIPS and Science Act with the U.S. Department of Commerce (the "Department").
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