Thursday, April 20, 2006
IBM said that first-quarter income from continuing operations was $1.7 billion, up 21 percent from $1.4 billion a year ago.
IBM posted first-quarter diluted earnings per common share of $1.08 from continuing operations, compared with diluted earnings of $0.85 per share in the first quarter of 2005, an increase of 27 percent.
Total revenues were $20.7 billion in the first period, down 10 percent from a year ago. Revenues from IBM’s Microelectronics Group increased 37 percent.
IBM beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company was supposed to earn $1.05 per share on sales of $20.72 billion.
Samuel Palmisano, IBM’s chairman and chief executive, was upbeat, especially about the chip sector. "We had very strong results in middleware and continued revenue growth in microelectronics for our 300-mm wafer products that serve the major gaming platforms,” he said in a statement. IBM makes game-console chips for Microsoft and Sony.
“Services signings increased, services margins rose for the seventh straight quarter year to year, and IBM again grew in emerging markets,” he said.
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