International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Analyst Ratings & Price Targets

International Business Machines Corporation

IBM · NYSE

Symbol: IBM
Type: Stock
Sector: Technology
Industry: Computer & office Equipment
Exchange: NYSE

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting delivers open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

Key Issues

Bullish view

AI partnerships and Red Hat growth could extend IBM’s software and hybrid-cloud momentum, supporting recurring revenue and improving the company’s growth profile.

Bearish view

The supplied evidence also highlights a miss on transaction processing, suggesting that newer AI and cloud initiatives may not offset weakness in established businesses quickly enough.

Analyst Consensus

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Hold

14 analysts

$249

Current

—

Low

$250

Average

—

High

Average target implies +0.37% versus the current price.

Earnings History

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Analyst Consensus

Hold

14 analysts

$249

Current

—

Low

$250

Average

—

High

Average target implies +0.37% versus the current price.

Analyst Ratings Synthesis

The supplied consensus is Hold, backed by 14 analysts, with a mean price target of $250; the low and high targets are unavailable, so the target cluster and spread cannot be established. No named analyst is identified as the most or least bullish in the evidence. Revision direction over the past week is also not established by dated, attributable actions. The broader supplied material is mixed: TipRanks reports a reiterated Hold with an unchanged $236 target, while Simply Wall St cites an analyst fair-value reduction to $174 from $195 and a separate target reduction to $335 from $390. The substantive disagreement concerns whether AI, Red Hat, and quantum opportunities outweigh structural risks, cautious growth assumptions, and transaction-processing weakness.

Rating Actions

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Firm	Analyst	Rating	Price Target	Upside	Date	Source
Weiss Ratings	—	Hold Downgraded from buy (b-) to hold (c+)	—	—	Jun 24, 2026	Open the report this row came from

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