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International Business Machines Corporation

5/23/2012, 8:49 AM ET
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  • Tuesday 12:28 PM Apple (AAPL) still has the world's most valuable brand, according to BrandZ's annual study, which estimates its value has risen 19% Y/Y to $182.9B. IBM is believed to have passed Google (GOOG) for the #2 spot thanks to a 15% increase, while McDonald's (MCD) is seen holding steady at #4 in spite of a 17% gain. Also in the top 10: Microsoft (MSFT), Coca-Cola (KO), Marlboro (PM), AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ), and China Mobile (CHL).
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  • Monday 4:38 PM IBM engages in a bit of debt refinancing. Big Blue offers to exchange over $2B worth of long-term debt sporting interest rates of 5.6%-8% for a combo of 4% notes due 2042 and cash. An early exchange premium is offered to debt holders who tender their existing notes by June 4. As of March 31, IBM had $32B of debt on its balance sheet. (PR)
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  • Monday 1:06 PM The global IT outsourcing market grew 7.8% in 2011, Gartner estimates, with market leader IBM's share holding steady at 10.9%. H-P (HPQ) only grew its sales 2%, and that resulted in its share falling to 6.1%. Troubled Computer Sciences (CSC) saw its share fall to 4.2%, while Accenture's (ACN) grew to 2.6%. Gartner continues to see (previous) the adoption of cloud services as a threat to the outsourcing market's future growth. (also)
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  • Thursday 3:52 PM According to a Morgan Stanley chart, H-P's (HPQ +0.2%) annual operating profit/employee stands at just $35K. That puts it behind most of its enterprise hardware peers, including top rivals IBM ($49K), DELL ($48K), and EMC ($67K), and goes a long way towards explaining the company's reported plans to cut 25K jobs.
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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM or the company) was incorporated in the State of New York on June 16, 1911, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Co. of America, the Tabulating Machine Co. and The International Time Recording... More