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Top Cheap Stocks To Buy Right Now: International Business Machines Corporation(IBM)

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) provides information technology (IT) products and services worldwide. Its Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and business process services, including strategic outsourcing, process, integrated technology, and maintenance services, as well as technology-based support services. The company?s Global Business Services segment offers consulting and systems integration, and application management services. Its Software segment offers middleware and operating systems software, such as WebSphere software to integrate and manage business processes; information management software for database and enterprise content management, information integration, data warehousing, business analytics and intelligence, performance management, and predictive analytics; Tivoli software for identity management, data security, storage management, and datacenter automation; Lotus software for collaboration, messaging, and so cial networking; rational software to support software development for IT and embedded systems; business intelligence software, which provides querying and forecasting tools; SPSS predictive analytics software to predict outcomes and act on that insight; and operating systems software. Its Systems and Technology segment provides computing and storage solutions, including servers, disk and tape storage systems and software, point-of-sale retail systems, and microelectronics. The company?s Global Financing segment provides lease and loan financing to end users and internal clients; commercial financing to dealers and remarketers of IT products; and remanufacturing and remarketing services. It serves financial services, public, industrial, distribution, communications, and general business sectors. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. and changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation in 1924. ! IBM was founded in 1910 and is base d in Armonk, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jared Cummans]

  IBM (IBM) announced today that it has closed a deal with SYNNEX to sell its customer care outsourcing services segment.

  The deal was struck for a total of $505 million with roughly $430 million of that figure coming from cash. The deal also mandated that SYNNEX enter a multi-year agreement with IBM as partners for global customer care and outsourcing services.

  SYNNEX, a Fortune 500 firm, is known for its IT supply chain services. The California-based firm trades under the ticker SNX and has seen its stock price soar approximately 60% since the middle of April.

  IBM shares were up $1.62, or 0.87%, at Tuesday’s close. The stock is down just over 2% in 2013.

• [By Paul Ausick]

  Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), with its driverless cars, is also committed to being the leader in new technology for automakers. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) are other contenders for platform dominance.

• [By Trustamind]

  My own preference -- and you knew this was coming -- is our third category: investment in productive assets, whether businesses, farms, or real estate. Ideally, these assets should have the ability in inflationary times to deliver output that will retain its purchasing-power value while requiring a minimum of new capital investment. Farms, real estate, and many businesses such as Coca-Cola (KO), IBM (IBM), and our own See's Candy meet that double-barreled test. Certain other companies -- think of our regulated utilities, for example -- fail it because inflation places heavy capital requirements on them. To earn more, their owners must invest more. Even so, these investments will remain superior to nonproductive or currency-based assets.

• [By Joe Magyer]

  1. Is Berkshire too big for its own good?
  Berkshire has a first-class problem: Buff! ett's wiz! ardy has grown the business to such size that it is having a hard time finding new investments that move the needle. It's amazing to think that Berkshire owns or is a major investor in each of the companies below in addition to $10-billion-plus stakes in IBM (NYSE: IBM  ) , Coca-Cola, and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC  ) .

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