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IBM · International Business Machines Corporation
$253.44 -0.05% Oct 26 close
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$IBM
International Business Machines CorporationInternational Business Machines Corporation is a mega-cap Information Technology Services company in the Technology Services sector with a market cap of $240B.
Market Structure
Trend structure: downtrend
Latest event: bos
(bearish)
Resistance
288.07–289.79
· 3 touches · moderate
Earnings
Normal technical setup
Next earnings
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
After market close
Exact clock time not supplied by source
Deterministic evidence
Reported EPS 2.95 vs estimate 2.8866 · surprise +2.2%
IBM-0.05%
Sector proxy · XLK+1.69%
Broad market · SPY+0.71%
⚠ Expectations warningPositive catalyst, negative tape: EPS beat estimates by 2.2%, while price fell 0.1%. Treat the mismatch as expectations/distribution evidence, not as a bullish confirmation.
Session internals Mixed
Rule: direction and internals disagree — it met neither the strong nor the weak rule. Judged on internals, not on the size of the move.
Vs prior close-0.05%
From the open+0.17%
Range position51%
GapNo gap
QQQ confirmationDiverging (+1.11%)
SMH confirmationDiverging (+2.74%)
Short-term conviction -2 points.
Price bars, sourced event fields, and benchmark math only. This can adjust displayed short-term conviction; it does not change the stored scanner score or readiness.
- Positive catalyst received negative stock confirmation.
- QQQ, SMH moved against the stock — no index confirmation.
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More stats
52W Low
$199.19
Tight Wks
0
Base
B1
SMA 200
$250.21
Group Rank
#18/65
ADR%
2.8%
ATR(14)
$7.52 (3.0%)
Vol Pace (live)
N/A
A/D Days
17A / 12D
A/D Rating
A+
Power Trend
3d
Earnings
past
IBM Chart
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Technical Analysis Report Card
$IBM · $253.44 · as of 2026-10-26 · multi-factor read
65
/ 100
Trend · Daily / Weekly / Monthly
Daily
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Weekly
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Monthly
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Moving Averages
50-day$233.42 ↑
100-day$242.88 ↑
200-day$250.21 ↑
Bearish (50 < 200)
RSI (14)
Reading71.0 · Overbought
Overbought — buyers extended; watch for a pause or pullback.
MACD (12/26/9)
StateBullish
Histogram+3.351
Bullish — MACD above its signal line and above zero. Histogram contracting.
Bollinger Bands (20,2)
%B / Width94% · 20.5%
Near the upper band — buyers in control.
Volume · Buyer vs Seller
Up/Down vol1.23 · Neutral
Rel volume0.68×
Pocket pivots · 10d2
5d vs 50d vol138%
Heavy vol up / down3 / 0
Balanced — up/down volume is roughly even; no clear hand. Recent volume is expanding versus its baseline.
- Pocket pivot 2 sessions ago — up-day volume beat every down day of the prior 10 sessions.
- 3 heavy-volume up days vs 0 down in the last 20 sessions.
Support & Resistance
R · $258.50swing level
R · $311.80swing level
R · $332.4652-week high
Price · $253.44now
S · $243.68swing level
S · $229.34swing level
S · $221.73swing level
Fibonacci · Downtrend swing
23.6%$230.64
38.2% ◄ price here$250.10
50.0%$265.82
61.8%$281.55
78.6%$303.94
Retracement resistance zones measured from the recent swing high down to the low.
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Above 200-day MA50/200 bearishRSI overbought5.2:1 reward-to-risk
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Base & Breakout
Breakout follow-through
No active breakout tracked — Legend AI monitors daily for pivot-point breaks. What's a breakout?
Latest candle: Doji — Open and close nearly equal — indecision. After a strong move it can signal a pause or pending reversal; wait for confirmation.
RS Line vs SPY
52-week relative strength · blue = RS line · dashed = MA50 · dot = NH
Accumulation / Distribution
last 65 sessions · green = acc on high vol · red = dist on high vol
Net +1
No patterns detected
This symbol didn't match any pattern in the latest scan.
Minervini Trend Template
3/8Grades the price structure — moving-average stacking, distance from the 52-week high/low, and relative strength above the ≥70 uptrend bar. This is the technical trend check; the company's fundamentals and ≥80 RS leadership are scored separately in the Grade Card.
Price above SMA 150 & 200
$253.44 vs SMA150 $243.09 / SMA200 $250.21
SMA 150 above SMA 200
SMA150 $243.09 vs SMA200 $250.21
SMA 200 trending up
Slope -7.06 over 20 days
SMA 50 above SMA 150 & 200
SMA50 $233.42
Price above SMA 50
$253.44 vs SMA50 $233.42
30%+ above 52-week low
+27.2% from $199.19
Within 25% of 52-week high
-23.8% from $332.46
RS score above 70
RS 50
Fundamentals
52W Range
41%
Mkt Cap SEC
239.6B
Rev YoY
+8%
EPS TTM
$11.17
P/E TTM
22.7x
Float
945M
Insider
No Buy
Company
Company profile
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