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The Fed seems to be favoring its full employment mandate more than its price stability mandate.”\n“Accordingly, the upcoming Fed meeting could be impactful,” Carter said.\nBenchmark Treasury yields eased after the bid at the largest-ever TIPS auction touched a record low, pressuring rate sensitive banks.\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25.35 points, or 0.07%, to 34,823.35, the S&P 500 gained 8.79 points, or 0.20%, to 4,367.48 and the Nasdaq Composite added 52.64 points, or 0.36%, to 14,684.60.\nOf the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, tech was shining brightest, gaining 0.7%. Energy stocks suffered the largest percentage drop.\nThe second-quarter reporting season barreled ahead at full-throttle, with 104 of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. 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Here's what's behind IB","content":"<blockquote>\n <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IBM\">IBM</a> hasn't had any wins in a quarter century -- and it's not about to start. Here's what's behind IBM stock.\n</blockquote>\n<p>To make a comparison to football,&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IBM\">IBM</a> </b>is the Dallas Cowboys of technology. How do I mean? Well, both IBM and the Cowboys are overrated. They haven’t won a title in a quarter century and they’re not going to do it this year. Their system is stale, yet somehow they still have fans. All around, IBM stock represents a disappointment.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/23c40f297776e475ef48e891e3c26f52\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: shutterstock.com/LCV</p>\n<p>Basically, both the Cowboys and IBM are living in the past. The Cowboys revere football icon Tom Landry while actually being run by Jerry Jones. Similarly, IBM still reveres its 20th century leaders while still feeling the effects of former CEO and current executive chairmanVirginia Rometty.</p>\n<p>This much became clear when Jim Whitehurst, who brought IBM a new cachet with <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/RHT\">Red Hat</a> in 2019,announced his departure. Rometty and the IBM bureaucracy outmaneuvered him, installing Arvind Krishna as CEO. Now, the company is still behind the ball.</p>\n<p><b>IBM Stock: Rometty’s Bad Plays</b></p>\n<p>Rometty — who became CEO in 2012 after a career in marketing — compiled <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> of the worst executive records of the last decade in my opinion.</p>\n<p>For starters, like Randall Stephenson of<b>AT&amp;T</b>(NYSE:<b><u>T</u></b>), she prioritized the dividend and missed the cloud — a trillion-dollar opportunity. Additionally, like Jeff Immelt of<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BGC\">General</a> Electric</b>(NYSE:<b><u>GE</u></b>), she covered up poor performance with happy talk and buybacks. Then finally, like Brian Krzanich of<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/INTC\">Intel</a></b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>INTC</u></b>), Rometty ran off talent until the cupboard was bare.</p>\n<p>When I was young, IBM dominated technology just like the Cowboys dominated football. They literally<i>made</i><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">Microsoft</a></b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>MSFT</u></b>) and used it to crush<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a></b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>AAPL</u></b>) in PCs. Their style was to bring in suits who assured clients they could handle all of their computing. Their Jimmy Johnson (another football icon) was Lou Gerstner, who made IBM a consulting company. Gerstner even wrote a book about it called<i>Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance.</i></p>\n<p>Whitehurst also has a book,<i>The Open Organization</i>, which describes how successful companies today must be run from the bottom-up as much as the top-down. Tech companies must also be partners with their customers, Whitehurst notes, not their overlords. The book was a direct challenge to the way IBM does business.</p>\n<p>When the companybought Red Hat, I was ready to buy IBM stock, thinking it would mark a transformation. However, Rometty and others have shown that’s not happening.</p>\n<p><b>Why IBM Looks Good</b></p>\n<p>Of course, IBM stock still looks good right now because everything in tech looks good. Today, shares are up 12% year-to-date (YTD) and have paid out $3.27 per share in dividends. Thesecond-quarter earningslooked good as well. Now, investors are hoping that, byspinning offits services business as Kyndryl,&nbsp; IBM can be great again.</p>\n<p>But that’s not going to happen. Kyndryl has signed an expensive leaseatop One Vanderbilt. It’s a sales office, meant to over-awe clients with its power. That’s the IBM way. But Kyndryl is just an outsourcer like<b>Cognizant</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>CTSH</u></b>), which has also gone nowhere this year.</p>\n<p>And the rest of IBM? It will be a minnow among giants.<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DVMT\">Dell</a></b>&nbsp;(NYSE:<b><u>DELL</u></b>), which is similar to the company and owns most of<b>VMWare</b>(NYSE:<b><u>VMW</u></b>), is up 31% YTD. Likewise,<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ORCL\">Oracle</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>ORCL</u></b>) — the faux cloud company that Silicon Valley loves to hate — is up 39% YTD.</p>\n<p>Of course, the “hybrid cloud” is agreat idea,but IBM can’t execute on it. After all, Dak Prescott is also a good quarterback, but that doesn’t mean he can carry the team.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line on IBM Stock</b></p>\n<p>If one word can be used to describe IBM today,it’s Watson.</p>\n<p>Watson was named for the company’s legendary CEOs, Tom Watson Sr. — who created IBM —&nbsp; and Tom Watson Jr., who made IBM a computer company. It was supposed to become a dominant artificial intelligence (AI) engine.</p>\n<p>In the end, though, Watson was justApache Hadoopwith a fancy front-end. Hadoop was an interesting idea, but a business failure.</p>\n<p>When it comes down to it, IBM needs to be recycled, like its old upstate <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NWY\">New York</a> manufacturing plantsneed to be recycled. My guess is that it will be, after the company has flailed a bit as this latest incarnation. Its cloud will become a real estate investment trust (REIT) like<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/EQIX\">Equinix</a></b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>EQIX</u></b>) and Red Hat will be spun out on its own. Retirement liabilities will be made to disappear.</p>\n<p>But IBM won’t be taken out for nearly the $126 billion it’s worth today. That’s because, in my opinion, Virginia Rometty has become the Jerry Jones of technology. She’ll win eight games and lose eight games, then call it a success. Consider that before investing in IBM stock.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Still Living in the Past, IBM Remains Behind the Tech Ball</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nStill Living in the Past, IBM Remains Behind the Tech Ball\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:54 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/ibm-stock-still-living-in-past-ibm-remains-behind-the-tech-ball/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>IBM hasn't had any wins in a quarter century -- and it's not about to start. Here's what's behind IBM stock.\n\nTo make a comparison to football, IBM is the Dallas Cowboys of technology. How do I mean? ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/ibm-stock-still-living-in-past-ibm-remains-behind-the-tech-ball/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"IBM":"IBM"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/ibm-stock-still-living-in-past-ibm-remains-behind-the-tech-ball/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1175975559","content_text":"IBM hasn't had any wins in a quarter century -- and it's not about to start. Here's what's behind IBM stock.\n\nTo make a comparison to football, IBM is the Dallas Cowboys of technology. How do I mean? Well, both IBM and the Cowboys are overrated. They haven’t won a title in a quarter century and they’re not going to do it this year. Their system is stale, yet somehow they still have fans. All around, IBM stock represents a disappointment.\nSource: shutterstock.com/LCV\nBasically, both the Cowboys and IBM are living in the past. The Cowboys revere football icon Tom Landry while actually being run by Jerry Jones. Similarly, IBM still reveres its 20th century leaders while still feeling the effects of former CEO and current executive chairmanVirginia Rometty.\nThis much became clear when Jim Whitehurst, who brought IBM a new cachet with Red Hat in 2019,announced his departure. Rometty and the IBM bureaucracy outmaneuvered him, installing Arvind Krishna as CEO. Now, the company is still behind the ball.\nIBM Stock: Rometty’s Bad Plays\nRometty — who became CEO in 2012 after a career in marketing — compiled one of the worst executive records of the last decade in my opinion.\nFor starters, like Randall Stephenson ofAT&T(NYSE:T), she prioritized the dividend and missed the cloud — a trillion-dollar opportunity. Additionally, like Jeff Immelt ofGeneral Electric(NYSE:GE), she covered up poor performance with happy talk and buybacks. Then finally, like Brian Krzanich ofIntel(NASDAQ:INTC), Rometty ran off talent until the cupboard was bare.\nWhen I was young, IBM dominated technology just like the Cowboys dominated football. They literallymadeMicrosoft(NASDAQ:MSFT) and used it to crushApple(NASDAQ:AAPL) in PCs. Their style was to bring in suits who assured clients they could handle all of their computing. Their Jimmy Johnson (another football icon) was Lou Gerstner, who made IBM a consulting company. Gerstner even wrote a book about it calledWho Says Elephants Can’t Dance.\nWhitehurst also has a book,The Open Organization, which describes how successful companies today must be run from the bottom-up as much as the top-down. Tech companies must also be partners with their customers, Whitehurst notes, not their overlords. The book was a direct challenge to the way IBM does business.\nWhen the companybought Red Hat, I was ready to buy IBM stock, thinking it would mark a transformation. However, Rometty and others have shown that’s not happening.\nWhy IBM Looks Good\nOf course, IBM stock still looks good right now because everything in tech looks good. Today, shares are up 12% year-to-date (YTD) and have paid out $3.27 per share in dividends. Thesecond-quarter earningslooked good as well. Now, investors are hoping that, byspinning offits services business as Kyndryl,  IBM can be great again.\nBut that’s not going to happen. Kyndryl has signed an expensive leaseatop One Vanderbilt. It’s a sales office, meant to over-awe clients with its power. That’s the IBM way. But Kyndryl is just an outsourcer likeCognizant(NASDAQ:CTSH), which has also gone nowhere this year.\nAnd the rest of IBM? It will be a minnow among giants.Dell (NYSE:DELL), which is similar to the company and owns most ofVMWare(NYSE:VMW), is up 31% YTD. Likewise,Oracle(NYSE:ORCL) — the faux cloud company that Silicon Valley loves to hate — is up 39% YTD.\nOf course, the “hybrid cloud” is agreat idea,but IBM can’t execute on it. After all, Dak Prescott is also a good quarterback, but that doesn’t mean he can carry the team.\nThe Bottom Line on IBM Stock\nIf one word can be used to describe IBM today,it’s Watson.\nWatson was named for the company’s legendary CEOs, Tom Watson Sr. — who created IBM —  and Tom Watson Jr., who made IBM a computer company. It was supposed to become a dominant artificial intelligence (AI) engine.\nIn the end, though, Watson was justApache Hadoopwith a fancy front-end. Hadoop was an interesting idea, but a business failure.\nWhen it comes down to it, IBM needs to be recycled, like its old upstate New York manufacturing plantsneed to be recycled. My guess is that it will be, after the company has flailed a bit as this latest incarnation. Its cloud will become a real estate investment trust (REIT) likeEquinix(NASDAQ:EQIX) and Red Hat will be spun out on its own. Retirement liabilities will be made to disappear.\nBut IBM won’t be taken out for nearly the $126 billion it’s worth today. That’s because, in my opinion, Virginia Rometty has become the Jerry Jones of technology. She’ll win eight games and lose eight games, then call it a success. 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The Fed seems to be favoring its full employment mandate more than its price stability mandate.”</p>\n<p>“Accordingly, the upcoming Fed meeting could be impactful,” Carter said.</p>\n<p>Benchmark Treasury yields eased after the bid at the largest-ever TIPS auction touched a record low, pressuring rate sensitive banks.</p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25.35 points, or 0.07%, to 34,823.35, the S&amp;P 500 gained 8.79 points, or 0.20%, to 4,367.48 and the Nasdaq Composite added 52.64 points, or 0.36%, to 14,684.60.</p>\n<p>Of the 11 major sectors of the S&amp;P 500, tech was shining brightest, gaining 0.7%. Energy stocks suffered the largest percentage drop.</p>\n<p>The second-quarter reporting season barreled ahead at full-throttle, with 104 of the companies in the S&amp;P 500 having reported. Of those, 88% have beaten consensus estimates, according to Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Drugmaker Biogen Inc gained 1.1% after hiking its full-year revenue guidance, while Domino’s Pizza Inc surged 14.6% to an all-time high on the heels of its quarterly report.</p>\n<p>Southwest Airlines Co posted a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss, sending its stock down 3.5%, and American Airlines Group Inc dipped 1.1% even after reporting a quarterly profit.</p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 1500 Airlines index ended the session off 1.7%.</p>\n<p>Shares of Texas Instruments Inc slid 5.3% after its current-quarter revenue forecast cast concerns as to whether the company will be able to meet spiking demand in the face of a global semiconductor shortage.</p>\n<p>The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index ended the session down 0.9%.</p>\n<p>Chipmaker Intel Corp slipped more than 1% in extended trading after the chipmaker posted results and raised its annual revenue forecast.</p>\n<p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.82-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.90-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 posted 39 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 70 new highs and 54 new lows.</p>\n<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 8.25 billion shares, compared with the 10.12 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Wall Street ekes out gains, led by tech, growth stocks</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The Fed seems to be favoring its full employment mandate more than its price stability mandate.”\n“Accordingly, the upcoming Fed meeting could be impactful,” Carter said.\nBenchmark Treasury yields eased after the bid at the largest-ever TIPS auction touched a record low, pressuring rate sensitive banks.\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25.35 points, or 0.07%, to 34,823.35, the S&P 500 gained 8.79 points, or 0.20%, to 4,367.48 and the Nasdaq Composite added 52.64 points, or 0.36%, to 14,684.60.\nOf the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, tech was shining brightest, gaining 0.7%. Energy stocks suffered the largest percentage drop.\nThe second-quarter reporting season barreled ahead at full-throttle, with 104 of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. Of those, 88% have beaten consensus estimates, according to Refinitiv.\nDrugmaker Biogen Inc gained 1.1% after hiking its full-year revenue guidance, while Domino’s Pizza Inc surged 14.6% to an all-time high on the heels of its quarterly report.\nSouthwest Airlines Co posted a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss, sending its stock down 3.5%, and American Airlines Group Inc dipped 1.1% even after reporting a quarterly profit.\nThe S&P 1500 Airlines index ended the session off 1.7%.\nShares of Texas Instruments Inc slid 5.3% after its current-quarter revenue forecast cast concerns as to whether the company will be able to meet spiking demand in the face of a global semiconductor shortage.\nThe Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index ended the session down 0.9%.\nChipmaker Intel Corp slipped more than 1% in extended trading after the chipmaker posted results and raised its annual revenue forecast.\nDeclining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.82-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.90-to-1 ratio favored decliners.\nThe S&P 500 posted 39 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 70 new highs and 54 new lows.\nVolume on U.S. exchanges was 8.25 billion shares, compared with the 10.12 billion average over the last 20 trading days.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":284,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":172562260,"gmtCreate":1626966973050,"gmtModify":1703481626977,"author":{"id":"4089973464760670","authorId":"4089973464760670","name":"JittoJoy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/36bf29b06bdc3adef7de085af1cf5495","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4089973464760670","authorIdStr":"4089973464760670"},"themes":[],"htmlText":".","listText":".","text":".","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/172562260","repostId":"1154266565","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":260,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":172567572,"gmtCreate":1626967135996,"gmtModify":1703481631202,"author":{"id":"4089973464760670","authorId":"4089973464760670","name":"JittoJoy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/36bf29b06bdc3adef7de085af1cf5495","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4089973464760670","authorIdStr":"4089973464760670"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/172567572","repostId":"1154266565","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1154266565","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1626955588,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1154266565?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-07-22 20:06","market":"us","language":"en","title":"How to invest as the Delta variant takes hold","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1154266565","media":"cnn","summary":"New York When the market is plunging like it did last Friday and on Monday, it's tempting to throw in the towel and sell. Big drops can be scary.But dumping stocks on days when the Dow is getting whacked is usually the wrong thing to do. Stocks roared back Tuesday and were up again Wednesday.If you're investing for the long haul, the best thing you can do is ride out this wave of volatility.\"Stay invested,\" said Seema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors. Shah told CNN Business t","content":"<p>New York (CNN Business)When the market is plunging like it did last Friday and on Monday, it's tempting to throw in the towel and sell. Big drops can be scary.</p>\n<p>But dumping stocks on days when the Dow is getting whacked is usually the wrong thing to do. Stocks roared back Tuesday and were up again Wednesday.</p>\n<p>Yes, the Delta variant of Covid-19 has led to an alarming uptick in coronavirus cases in the United States and around the globe. But many experts think the massive number of vaccinations that have already taken place will prevent the economy and markets from going into another tailspin.</p>\n<p>If you're investing for the long haul, the best thing you can do is ride out this wave of volatility.</p>\n<p>\"Stay invested,\" said Seema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors. Shah told CNN Business that the Delta variant is highly unlikely to stop the economic recovery in the US and other parts of the developed world where vaccination rates are high.</p>\n<p>\"The vaccine is effective,\" she said. \"If cases are rising but hospitalization rates remain low, then the reopening measures from governments will continue.\"</p>\n<p>Still, Shah conceded, investors should be more selective. After all, the S&amp;P 500 has nearly doubled from its pandemic lows in March 2020, and not all stocks and sectors will maintain their momentum.</p>\n<p>She thinks defensive sectors might start to pull back a bit. Those include utilities, health care and others companies that pay big dividends and are considered good bond proxies.</p>\n<p>The FAANGs and other big tech stocks, many of which have strong earnings momentum and tons of cash, should continue to rally, she said.</p>\n<p><b>Not the time to bail on the market</b></p>\n<p>So should economic recovery plays in the travel and retail sectors that have pulled back lately on Covid concerns. United (UAL), for example, issued an upbeat outlook after the closing bell Tuesday.</p>\n<p>\"Airlines have been beaten up,\" Shah said. \"But if you assume the reopening will continue, they should enjoy a significant bounceback.\"</p>\n<p>Stocks may remain bumpy for the foreseeable future, but that shouldn't dissuade investors from sticking with their longer-term investments.</p>\n<p>\"The uncertainty of the past couple of days is warranted for the short term,\" said Peter van der Welle, multi-asset strategist at Robeco. \"But there should be a second leg to the reflation trade.\"</p>\n<p>Van der Welle noted that there are many reasons to be optimistic about continued gains in consumer spending and retail sales, despite a recent drop in consumer confidence.</p>\n<p><b>Buy the dips</b></p>\n<p>Any wariness on the part of consumers — and investors, for that matter — could turn out to be fleeting.</p>\n<p>\"If you are a long-term investor, take advantage of this volatility and add to positions in companies and sectors you really like,\" said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Hermes.</p>\n<p>He he belives stocks in cyclical industries that have gotten hit because of Delta variant fears could enjoy the biggest rebounds.</p>\n<p>\"There are stocks that have hit an air pocket that could be very attractive. We love the economically sensitive sectors,\" Orlando added, saying that banks and other financials, industrial firms, retailers and energy stocks may come roaring back.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>How to invest as the Delta variant takes hold</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nHow to invest as the Delta variant takes hold\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:06 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/21/investing/investing-stock-market-volatility/index.html><strong>cnn</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>New York (CNN Business)When the market is plunging like it did last Friday and on Monday, it's tempting to throw in the towel and sell. Big drops can be scary.\nBut dumping stocks on days when the Dow ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/21/investing/investing-stock-market-volatility/index.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","SPY":"标普500ETF",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite"},"source_url":"https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/21/investing/investing-stock-market-volatility/index.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1154266565","content_text":"New York (CNN Business)When the market is plunging like it did last Friday and on Monday, it's tempting to throw in the towel and sell. Big drops can be scary.\nBut dumping stocks on days when the Dow is getting whacked is usually the wrong thing to do. Stocks roared back Tuesday and were up again Wednesday.\nYes, the Delta variant of Covid-19 has led to an alarming uptick in coronavirus cases in the United States and around the globe. But many experts think the massive number of vaccinations that have already taken place will prevent the economy and markets from going into another tailspin.\nIf you're investing for the long haul, the best thing you can do is ride out this wave of volatility.\n\"Stay invested,\" said Seema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors. Shah told CNN Business that the Delta variant is highly unlikely to stop the economic recovery in the US and other parts of the developed world where vaccination rates are high.\n\"The vaccine is effective,\" she said. \"If cases are rising but hospitalization rates remain low, then the reopening measures from governments will continue.\"\nStill, Shah conceded, investors should be more selective. After all, the S&P 500 has nearly doubled from its pandemic lows in March 2020, and not all stocks and sectors will maintain their momentum.\nShe thinks defensive sectors might start to pull back a bit. Those include utilities, health care and others companies that pay big dividends and are considered good bond proxies.\nThe FAANGs and other big tech stocks, many of which have strong earnings momentum and tons of cash, should continue to rally, she said.\nNot the time to bail on the market\nSo should economic recovery plays in the travel and retail sectors that have pulled back lately on Covid concerns. United (UAL), for example, issued an upbeat outlook after the closing bell Tuesday.\n\"Airlines have been beaten up,\" Shah said. \"But if you assume the reopening will continue, they should enjoy a significant bounceback.\"\nStocks may remain bumpy for the foreseeable future, but that shouldn't dissuade investors from sticking with their longer-term investments.\n\"The uncertainty of the past couple of days is warranted for the short term,\" said Peter van der Welle, multi-asset strategist at Robeco. \"But there should be a second leg to the reflation trade.\"\nVan der Welle noted that there are many reasons to be optimistic about continued gains in consumer spending and retail sales, despite a recent drop in consumer confidence.\nBuy the dips\nAny wariness on the part of consumers — and investors, for that matter — could turn out to be fleeting.\n\"If you are a long-term investor, take advantage of this volatility and add to positions in companies and sectors you really like,\" said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Hermes.\nHe he belives stocks in cyclical industries that have gotten hit because of Delta variant fears could enjoy the biggest rebounds.\n\"There are stocks that have hit an air pocket that could be very attractive. We love the economically sensitive sectors,\" Orlando added, saying that banks and other financials, industrial firms, retailers and energy stocks may come roaring back.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":87,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":172528349,"gmtCreate":1626967340281,"gmtModify":1703481637704,"author":{"id":"4089973464760670","authorId":"4089973464760670","name":"JittoJoy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/36bf29b06bdc3adef7de085af1cf5495","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4089973464760670","authorIdStr":"4089973464760670"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/172528349","repostId":"1175975559","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1175975559","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1626958493,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1175975559?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-07-22 20:54","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Still Living in the Past, IBM Remains Behind the Tech Ball","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1175975559","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"IBM hasn't had any wins in a quarter century -- and it's not about to start. Here's what's behind IB","content":"<blockquote>\n <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IBM\">IBM</a> hasn't had any wins in a quarter century -- and it's not about to start. Here's what's behind IBM stock.\n</blockquote>\n<p>To make a comparison to football,&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IBM\">IBM</a> </b>is the Dallas Cowboys of technology. How do I mean? Well, both IBM and the Cowboys are overrated. They haven’t won a title in a quarter century and they’re not going to do it this year. Their system is stale, yet somehow they still have fans. All around, IBM stock represents a disappointment.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/23c40f297776e475ef48e891e3c26f52\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: shutterstock.com/LCV</p>\n<p>Basically, both the Cowboys and IBM are living in the past. The Cowboys revere football icon Tom Landry while actually being run by Jerry Jones. Similarly, IBM still reveres its 20th century leaders while still feeling the effects of former CEO and current executive chairmanVirginia Rometty.</p>\n<p>This much became clear when Jim Whitehurst, who brought IBM a new cachet with <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/RHT\">Red Hat</a> in 2019,announced his departure. Rometty and the IBM bureaucracy outmaneuvered him, installing Arvind Krishna as CEO. Now, the company is still behind the ball.</p>\n<p><b>IBM Stock: Rometty’s Bad Plays</b></p>\n<p>Rometty — who became CEO in 2012 after a career in marketing — compiled <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> of the worst executive records of the last decade in my opinion.</p>\n<p>For starters, like Randall Stephenson of<b>AT&amp;T</b>(NYSE:<b><u>T</u></b>), she prioritized the dividend and missed the cloud — a trillion-dollar opportunity. Additionally, like Jeff Immelt of<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BGC\">General</a> Electric</b>(NYSE:<b><u>GE</u></b>), she covered up poor performance with happy talk and buybacks. Then finally, like Brian Krzanich of<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/INTC\">Intel</a></b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>INTC</u></b>), Rometty ran off talent until the cupboard was bare.</p>\n<p>When I was young, IBM dominated technology just like the Cowboys dominated football. They literally<i>made</i><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">Microsoft</a></b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>MSFT</u></b>) and used it to crush<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a></b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>AAPL</u></b>) in PCs. Their style was to bring in suits who assured clients they could handle all of their computing. Their Jimmy Johnson (another football icon) was Lou Gerstner, who made IBM a consulting company. Gerstner even wrote a book about it called<i>Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance.</i></p>\n<p>Whitehurst also has a book,<i>The Open Organization</i>, which describes how successful companies today must be run from the bottom-up as much as the top-down. Tech companies must also be partners with their customers, Whitehurst notes, not their overlords. The book was a direct challenge to the way IBM does business.</p>\n<p>When the companybought Red Hat, I was ready to buy IBM stock, thinking it would mark a transformation. However, Rometty and others have shown that’s not happening.</p>\n<p><b>Why IBM Looks Good</b></p>\n<p>Of course, IBM stock still looks good right now because everything in tech looks good. Today, shares are up 12% year-to-date (YTD) and have paid out $3.27 per share in dividends. Thesecond-quarter earningslooked good as well. Now, investors are hoping that, byspinning offits services business as Kyndryl,&nbsp; IBM can be great again.</p>\n<p>But that’s not going to happen. Kyndryl has signed an expensive leaseatop One Vanderbilt. It’s a sales office, meant to over-awe clients with its power. That’s the IBM way. But Kyndryl is just an outsourcer like<b>Cognizant</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>CTSH</u></b>), which has also gone nowhere this year.</p>\n<p>And the rest of IBM? It will be a minnow among giants.<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DVMT\">Dell</a></b>&nbsp;(NYSE:<b><u>DELL</u></b>), which is similar to the company and owns most of<b>VMWare</b>(NYSE:<b><u>VMW</u></b>), is up 31% YTD. Likewise,<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ORCL\">Oracle</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>ORCL</u></b>) — the faux cloud company that Silicon Valley loves to hate — is up 39% YTD.</p>\n<p>Of course, the “hybrid cloud” is agreat idea,but IBM can’t execute on it. After all, Dak Prescott is also a good quarterback, but that doesn’t mean he can carry the team.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line on IBM Stock</b></p>\n<p>If one word can be used to describe IBM today,it’s Watson.</p>\n<p>Watson was named for the company’s legendary CEOs, Tom Watson Sr. — who created IBM —&nbsp; and Tom Watson Jr., who made IBM a computer company. It was supposed to become a dominant artificial intelligence (AI) engine.</p>\n<p>In the end, though, Watson was justApache Hadoopwith a fancy front-end. Hadoop was an interesting idea, but a business failure.</p>\n<p>When it comes down to it, IBM needs to be recycled, like its old upstate <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NWY\">New York</a> manufacturing plantsneed to be recycled. My guess is that it will be, after the company has flailed a bit as this latest incarnation. Its cloud will become a real estate investment trust (REIT) like<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/EQIX\">Equinix</a></b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>EQIX</u></b>) and Red Hat will be spun out on its own. Retirement liabilities will be made to disappear.</p>\n<p>But IBM won’t be taken out for nearly the $126 billion it’s worth today. That’s because, in my opinion, Virginia Rometty has become the Jerry Jones of technology. She’ll win eight games and lose eight games, then call it a success. Consider that before investing in IBM stock.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Still Living in the Past, IBM Remains Behind the Tech Ball</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nStill Living in the Past, IBM Remains Behind the Tech Ball\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:54 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/ibm-stock-still-living-in-past-ibm-remains-behind-the-tech-ball/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>IBM hasn't had any wins in a quarter century -- and it's not about to start. Here's what's behind IBM stock.\n\nTo make a comparison to football, IBM is the Dallas Cowboys of technology. How do I mean? ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/ibm-stock-still-living-in-past-ibm-remains-behind-the-tech-ball/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"IBM":"IBM"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/ibm-stock-still-living-in-past-ibm-remains-behind-the-tech-ball/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1175975559","content_text":"IBM hasn't had any wins in a quarter century -- and it's not about to start. Here's what's behind IBM stock.\n\nTo make a comparison to football, IBM is the Dallas Cowboys of technology. How do I mean? Well, both IBM and the Cowboys are overrated. They haven’t won a title in a quarter century and they’re not going to do it this year. Their system is stale, yet somehow they still have fans. All around, IBM stock represents a disappointment.\nSource: shutterstock.com/LCV\nBasically, both the Cowboys and IBM are living in the past. The Cowboys revere football icon Tom Landry while actually being run by Jerry Jones. Similarly, IBM still reveres its 20th century leaders while still feeling the effects of former CEO and current executive chairmanVirginia Rometty.\nThis much became clear when Jim Whitehurst, who brought IBM a new cachet with Red Hat in 2019,announced his departure. Rometty and the IBM bureaucracy outmaneuvered him, installing Arvind Krishna as CEO. Now, the company is still behind the ball.\nIBM Stock: Rometty’s Bad Plays\nRometty — who became CEO in 2012 after a career in marketing — compiled one of the worst executive records of the last decade in my opinion.\nFor starters, like Randall Stephenson ofAT&T(NYSE:T), she prioritized the dividend and missed the cloud — a trillion-dollar opportunity. Additionally, like Jeff Immelt ofGeneral Electric(NYSE:GE), she covered up poor performance with happy talk and buybacks. Then finally, like Brian Krzanich ofIntel(NASDAQ:INTC), Rometty ran off talent until the cupboard was bare.\nWhen I was young, IBM dominated technology just like the Cowboys dominated football. They literallymadeMicrosoft(NASDAQ:MSFT) and used it to crushApple(NASDAQ:AAPL) in PCs. Their style was to bring in suits who assured clients they could handle all of their computing. Their Jimmy Johnson (another football icon) was Lou Gerstner, who made IBM a consulting company. Gerstner even wrote a book about it calledWho Says Elephants Can’t Dance.\nWhitehurst also has a book,The Open Organization, which describes how successful companies today must be run from the bottom-up as much as the top-down. Tech companies must also be partners with their customers, Whitehurst notes, not their overlords. The book was a direct challenge to the way IBM does business.\nWhen the companybought Red Hat, I was ready to buy IBM stock, thinking it would mark a transformation. However, Rometty and others have shown that’s not happening.\nWhy IBM Looks Good\nOf course, IBM stock still looks good right now because everything in tech looks good. Today, shares are up 12% year-to-date (YTD) and have paid out $3.27 per share in dividends. Thesecond-quarter earningslooked good as well. Now, investors are hoping that, byspinning offits services business as Kyndryl,  IBM can be great again.\nBut that’s not going to happen. Kyndryl has signed an expensive leaseatop One Vanderbilt. It’s a sales office, meant to over-awe clients with its power. That’s the IBM way. But Kyndryl is just an outsourcer likeCognizant(NASDAQ:CTSH), which has also gone nowhere this year.\nAnd the rest of IBM? It will be a minnow among giants.Dell (NYSE:DELL), which is similar to the company and owns most ofVMWare(NYSE:VMW), is up 31% YTD. Likewise,Oracle(NYSE:ORCL) — the faux cloud company that Silicon Valley loves to hate — is up 39% YTD.\nOf course, the “hybrid cloud” is agreat idea,but IBM can’t execute on it. After all, Dak Prescott is also a good quarterback, but that doesn’t mean he can carry the team.\nThe Bottom Line on IBM Stock\nIf one word can be used to describe IBM today,it’s Watson.\nWatson was named for the company’s legendary CEOs, Tom Watson Sr. — who created IBM —  and Tom Watson Jr., who made IBM a computer company. It was supposed to become a dominant artificial intelligence (AI) engine.\nIn the end, though, Watson was justApache Hadoopwith a fancy front-end. Hadoop was an interesting idea, but a business failure.\nWhen it comes down to it, IBM needs to be recycled, like its old upstate New York manufacturing plantsneed to be recycled. My guess is that it will be, after the company has flailed a bit as this latest incarnation. Its cloud will become a real estate investment trust (REIT) likeEquinix(NASDAQ:EQIX) and Red Hat will be spun out on its own. Retirement liabilities will be made to disappear.\nBut IBM won’t be taken out for nearly the $126 billion it’s worth today. That’s because, in my opinion, Virginia Rometty has become the Jerry Jones of technology. She’ll win eight games and lose eight games, then call it a success. Consider that before investing in IBM stock.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":63,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}