IBM (IBM) stock & equity tools

International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries; for 29 consecutive years, from 1993 to 2021, it held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business.

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Founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and renamed IBM in 1924, Big Blue now centers its strategy on hybrid cloud and AI from its Armonk, New York headquarters. The $34B Red Hat acquisition in 2019 anchored the cloud pivot, while the watsonx platform and open-source Granite models drive enterprise AI. CEO Arvind Krishna, in the role since 2020, spun off managed infrastructure as Kyndryl in 2021 and closed the $6.4B HashiCorp deal in February 2025. Revenue runs around $60-62B annually.

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Equity comp at IBM

• RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.

Researched 2026-05-07.