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IBM Corp revenue disappoints as software sales mark rare decline

(Reuters) - IBM Corp missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, hurt by a rare sales decline in its software unit as clients shied away from longer-term deals due to pandemic-induced economic uncertainty. The 109-year-old firm is preparing to split itself into two public companies and the namesake firm will focus on the so-called hybrid cloud, where companies use a combination of their own datacenters and leased resources to manage and process data. Revenue from its cloud-computing business rose 10% to a record $7.5 billion in the fourth quarter, with IBM saying it is confident of returning to sales growth in 2021 and expected revenue to grow in mid-single digits after the separation.

IBM revenue misses estimates, showing continuing cloud struggles

IBM revenue misses estimates, showing continuing cloud struggles Brody Ford, Bloomberg News International Business Machines Corp. shares fell the most in 10 months after the company reported a greater sales decline in the fourth quarter than analysts had expected, signaling Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna’s turnaround plan may take more time. Sales fell 6.5 per cent to US$20.4 billion in the three months ended Dec. 31, the Armonk, New York-based company said Thursday in a statement. That was below the US$20.75 billion analysts had forecast, on average, and marked the 10th consecutive quarter with no year-over-year increase in revenue. “This is a sequential change which seems to be notably below trend,” said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., on Thursday’s earnings call.

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