International Business Machines (IBM) — the earnings record

Long reads

• Cybersecurity — Sold on Price, Bought on FlowWeekly Signal · 13 Sept 2026IBM (243.29, +3.6%), named in the digest for its models partnership, is −18% on the year and −26% off its June high; the flow scan does not cover it.
• Enterprise AI — The Control PointReport · 4 Aug 2026
• AI Capex — The Tell Fired TwiceWeekly Signal · 26 Jul 2026The post-print window — Wednesday's close to Friday's, the two sessions after Alphabet, ServiceNow, IBM, Tesla, SAP and Intel reported — ran the opposite tape, and that one carries the information: Rubin −4.3% · Agentic Infrastructure…
• Forward-Deployed Engineers: The Human Infrastructure Layer of Agentic AIReport · 9 Jul 2026IBM (22 Jul 2026, Q2 earnings call) committed 8,000 forward-deployed engineers to installing AI inside client enterprises — the largest single FDE commitment of the series, surpassing AWS's $1 billion organization three weeks after it…
• AI Models — The Model Is Not the Moat · Closelooknet Heresy XIHeresy · 4 Jul 2026The public-market exposure is adjacency: Datadog, Dynatrace, Elastic, Cloudflare, Snowflake, GitLab, ServiceNow, Atlassian, Cisco/Splunk, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon — and, from §10, IBM, NVIDIA and Palantir, with Databricks if…

Dailies

• Jobs day — futures +0.3% before payrolls; Nike −8.7% after hours, Accenture holds +15.8%Morning 10 · 2 Oct 2026Oracle, SAP and IBM report in the coming weeks — each a test of the same question
• Software Earnings — Beat, Raise, Down 18%: The Punishment Phase Is BackDaily Pulse · 6 Aug 2026The Nokia pattern, software edition The common feature across the casualties is the one investors know from legacy hardware — Nokia, IBM, the long list of businesses that had a real new thing growing inside a big old thing.
• Agentic AI: The Orchestration Knock OutDaily Pulse · 24 Jul 2026The same week, IBM committed 8,000 forward-deployed engineers to installing AI inside client enterprises — the deployment army for exactly this transition, the largest single entry on our Forward Deployment board .
• The Data Center Isn't Shrinking — Its Center of Gravity Is MovingDaily Pulse · 23 Jul 2026Three prints in twenty-four hours drew the same map from three directions: IBM's mainframes fell 42% while its AI-server business grew 37%, Nokia's sales to AI and cloud customers doubled, and Alphabet raised its capex guide to $195–205…
• The Buy Lists Arrive — One Week After K3, the Street Reaches Past SemisDaily Pulse · 21 Jul 2026What the ratios cannot supply is the demand line, and that arrives in bulk tomorrow evening: Alphabet — the first hyperscaler capex indication since K3 existed — reports after Wednesday's close alongside Tesla, IBM fresh off its −25%…
• Semiconductors — Verdict Day: The Market Opens Below Every Line It Drew This WeekDaily Pulse · 17 Jul 2026Diary note, not advice: the week's two prints-from-weakness resolved in opposite directions — IBM reversed off a fresh 52-week low on its heaviest volume since the collapse, Netflix made a new low after growing — and the calendar's next…
• ASML Printed No Bookings Line — Amsterdam Paid Up for the Capacity InsteadDaily Pulse · 15 Jul 2026That is the same dispersion pattern the US tape has shown all week: the IBM warning hit legacy IT while cyber names set records, and Monday's memory washout reversed into Tuesday's SK Hynix record.
• IBM −23%: The Memory Squeeze Arrives in Enterprise BudgetsDaily Pulse · 14 Jul 2026IBM pre-announced a preliminary Q2 miss and fell 23% — its steepest single-day drop in decades.