International Business Machines Corporation operates in the Computer integrated systems design sector.
In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares International Business Machines with three other
manufacturers of computers and peripheral equipment in North America:
Hitachi Limited
(2012
sales of $122.66 billion
of which 16%
was Information & Telecommunication systems),
Hewlett-Packard Company
($120.36 billion
of which 30%
was Personal System Group), and
Dell Inc.
($56.94 billion
of which 31%
was Large Enterprise).
Sales Analysis.
International Business Machines reported sales of $104.51 billion
for the
year ending
December of 2012.
This
represents
a
decrease of 2.3%
versus 2011, when the company's sales were $106.92 billion.
The sales level in 2012 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2007, International Business Machines had sales
of $98.79 billion.
Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 52.0% decline
in Global Financing, from $4.20 billion to $2.01 billion.
There were also decreases in sales in
Global Technology Services (down 4.5% to $40.24 billion)
and
Software (down 9.8% to $25.45 billion)
and
Global Business Services (down 7.5% to $18.57 billion)
and
Systems and Technology (down 10.9% to $17.67 billion)
.
Business Description