{"id":3275,"date":"2020-01-03T05:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T05:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2019-12-13T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:32:26","slug":"ibm-market-capitalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"IBM Market Capitalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday (Tue 10th December), IBM paid out this dividend of $1.62 a share. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading the annual report: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/annualreport\/assets\/downloads\/IBM_Annual_Report_2018.pdf (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/annualreport\/assets\/downloads\/IBM_Annual_Report_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/annualreport\/assets\/downloads\/IBM_Annual_Report_2018.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We discover that The authorized capital stock of IBM consists of 4,687,500,000 shares of common stock with a $.20 per share par value, of which 892,479,411 shares were outstanding at December 31, 2018 and 150,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a $.01 per share par value, none of which were outstanding at December 31, 2018 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>892,479,411 x current share price of $132 = <strong>$117,807,282,252 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is <strong>$117bn.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the dividend of $1.62 a share will cost IBM:- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$1.62 a share x 892,479,411 = <strong>$1,445,816,645.82 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is <strong>$1.445 Billon.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Tue 10th December), IBM paid out this dividend of $1.62 a share. Reading the annual report: https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/annualreport\/assets\/downloads\/IBM_Annual_Report_2018.pdf We discover that The authorized capital stock of IBM consists of 4,687,500,000 shares of common stock with a $.20 per share par value, of which 892,479,411 shares were outstanding at December 31, 2018 and 150,000,000 shares of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}