Curious why after nearly touching $200 in early trading IBM is down 4% in after hours trading?
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Perhaps this has something to do with it: as the chart below shows, in Q1 IBM reported only $22.5 billion in sales, well below the $22.9 billion expected by the street, and down 3.9% from a year ago. In fact, this quarter's revenue was the lowest for IBM since the first quarter of... 2009. Net Income (non-GAAP of course), which was $2.6 billion and which met reduced estimates, was down a whopping 22% from a year ago.
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But the punchline, one which Cisco is very familiar with, was this:
Revenues from the company’s growth markets decreased 11 percent (down 5 percent, adjusting for currency).
Revenues in the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — decreased 11 percent (down 6 percent, adjusting for currency).
And so the Snowden curse strikes again, as countries which don't enjoy being constantly spied upon opt to not to business with the companies they believe are most instrumental in allowing the NSA into their midst.