IBM's Q1 Results Were Better, and Worse, Than They Seemed On the Surface [The Motley Fool]
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It would be easy to be confused by Monday's first-quarter report fromInternational Business Machines(NYSE:IBMThat's simultaneously good news and bad news for shareholders. Revenue didn't shrink solely because IBM couldn't find buyers for its products. Conversely, earnings weren't nearly as strong as they seemed, given the media's most-touted comparisons, because most of the media ignored the more relevant per-share profit benchmark.Revenue is reasonably healthyThe sales overview: IBM generated $7.7 billion worth of revenue during the three-month stretch ending in March, down from $8.8 billion in sales for the same quarter a year earlier. The figure was also shy of the top-line number between $7.6 billion and $7.7 billion analysts were modeling.Image source: Getty Images.Don't take the weakness completely to heart, however. At least some of the decline was by design, and another piece of it was expected.IBM operates five different businesstechnologyData source: Thomson Reuters/Refiniti
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