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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Kyndryl, a leading provider of IT services, reported its Fiscal First Quarter 2025 earnings and reported a 14% increase in constant currency signings for this quarter and a 7% increase over the last twelve months, with a projected pre-tax margin on these signings in the high single digits.</li><li>Despite a year-over-year decline in revenue by 8% in constant currency, which was mainly attributed to strategic exits from negative or low-margin streams, the company is confident about returning to top-line growth by the fourth quarter of this fiscal year.</li><li>This reduction in low-margin revenue is viewed as a strategic adjustment to enhance future profitability and quality of earnings.</li></ul>

Kyndryl, a leading provider of IT services, reported its Fiscal First Quarter 2025 earnings and reported a 14% increase in constant currency signings for this quarter and a 7% increase over the last twelve months, with a projected pre-tax margin on these signings in the high single digits.Despite a year-over-year decline in revenue by 8% in constant currency, which was mainly attributed to strategic exits from negative or low-margin streams, the company is confident about returning to top-line growth by the fourth quarter of this fiscal year.This reduction in low-margin revenue is viewed as a strategic adjustment to enhance future profitability and quality of earnings.

Kyndryl Holdings: Will Its Strategic Focus on High-Value Services Pay Off? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Kyndryl's fiscal fourth quarter 2024 earnings discussion revealed a mixture of strengths and challenges as the company continues its transformative journey post spin-off.</li><li>A comprehensive examination of the performance metrics and strategic initiatives suggests both promising areas of growth and areas needing careful watching.</li><li>Starting with the positives, Kyndryl has demonstrated a robust strategy in its 3A initiatives: alliances, advanced delivery, and accounts.</li></ul>

Kyndryl's fiscal fourth quarter 2024 earnings discussion revealed a mixture of strengths and challenges as the company continues its transformative journey post spin-off.A comprehensive examination of the performance metrics and strategic initiatives suggests both promising areas of growth and areas needing careful watching.Starting with the positives, Kyndryl has demonstrated a robust strategy in its 3A initiatives: alliances, advanced delivery, and accounts.

Kyndryl Holdings: Will The Acquisition of Skytap For The Expansion Of Hybrid Cloud Services Give Them A Much Needed Edge? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>KD highlights several milestones on its Fiscal Third Quarter 2024 Earnings.</li><li>The company reported strong execution and accelerated progress as a leader in mission-critical IT infrastructure services.</li><li>Its strategy surrounds the creation of alliances, advanced delivery, account initiatives, KD Consult and KD Bridge, contributing to expectations of profitable growth and an increased full-year earnings outlook.</li></ul>

KD highlights several milestones on its Fiscal Third Quarter 2024 Earnings.The company reported strong execution and accelerated progress as a leader in mission-critical IT infrastructure services.Its strategy surrounds the creation of alliances, advanced delivery, account initiatives, KD Consult and KD Bridge, contributing to expectations of profitable growth and an increased full-year earnings outlook.

Kyndryl Holdings: Focus on Customer Relations & Contract Changes! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>This is our first report on IT services company, Kyndryl.</li><li>This increase has been attributed to successful execution of its operations, demonstrating their ability to drive substantial profit growth in the company.</li><li>In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.</li></ul>

This is our first report on IT services company, Kyndryl.This increase has been attributed to successful execution of its operations, demonstrating their ability to drive substantial profit growth in the company.In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.

Kyndryl Holdings: Initiation of Coverage - How Kyndryl Consult Is Shaping a New Era of Revenue Generation - Major Drivers

Value Investing

Vladimir Dimitrov, CFA

International Business Machines / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>IBM has delivered a positive return of nearly 20% over the past two years, but that has little to do with actual business performance.</li>
<li>In addition to sluggish growth, IBM's declining profitability remains a problem.Issues related to the company's high debt load, low dividend coverage and an addiction to acquisitions have not gone away.</li>
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Being an IBM (NYSE:IBM) shareholder hasn't been easy over the years as the market continues to make new highs, while IBM still trades at levels from 2010.

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IBM has delivered a positive return of nearly 20% over the past two years, but that has little to do with actual business performance.
In addition to sluggish growth, IBM's declining profitability remains a problem.Issues related to the company's high debt load, low dividend coverage and an addiction to acquisitions have not gone away.

Being an IBM (NYSE:IBM) shareholder hasn't been easy over the years as the market continues to make new highs, while IBM still trades at levels from 2010.




IBM: Don't Be Fooled By Recent Share Price Performance

United States

Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. operates as a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides applications, data, AI, cloud, core enterprise, digital workplace, security, and other related services. Kyndryl Holdings serves customers in the United States.

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Kyndryl Holdings (KD US)

Kyndryl Holdings: Will Its Strategic Focus on High-Value Services Pay Off? - Major Drivers

Kyndryl, a leading provider of IT services, reported its Fiscal First Quarter 2025 earnings and reported a 14% increase in constant currency...

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Kyndryl Holdings: Will The Acquisition of Skytap For The Expansion Of Hybrid Cloud Services Give Them A Much Needed Edge? - Major Drivers

Kyndryl's fiscal fourth quarter 2024 earnings discussion revealed a mixture of strengths and challenges as the company continues its...

Baptista Research

Kyndryl Holdings: Focus on Customer Relations & Contract Changes! - Major Drivers

KD highlights several milestones on its Fiscal Third Quarter 2024 Earnings. The company reported strong execution and accelerated progress as a...

Baptista Research

Kyndryl Holdings: Initiation of Coverage - How Kyndryl Consult Is Shaping a New Era of Revenue Generation - Major Drivers

This is our first report on IT services company, Kyndryl. This increase has been attributed to successful execution of its operations,...

Baptista Research

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