IBM Marks Strong Start to New Chapter as Cloud Revenue Booms

IBM Marks Strong Start to New Chapter as Cloud Revenue Booms
A man wearing a protective mask walks past an office building with IBM logo in the Central Business District of Sydney, on June 3, 2020. Loren Elliott/Reuters
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IBM on Monday beat Wall Street estimates for revenue in the fourth quarter, as its focus on the cloud paid off in Big Blue’s first earnings after exiting the slow-growing managed infrastructure business.

Shares of the IT giant jumped as much as 7 percent aftermarket before easing to trade flat, with the company reiterating its forecast for mid-single-digit revenue growth in 2022, compared with 3.9 percent last year.