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IBM earnings call: For the full year, we are raising our expectation for free cash flow growth to more than $1 billion.国际商业机器 (IBM) 电话会：对于全年，我们将自由现金流增长预期上调至超过10亿美元。
Management remarks
Call period: 2026 Q3 · 2026-10-21
Guidance: Jim Kavanaugh: For the full year, we are raising our expectation for free cash flow growth to more than $1 billion.
Demand and orders: Jim Kavanaugh: Lightwell was recently made generally available, and we have strong early demand with a pipeline that is already approaching $700 million.
Margins: Jim Kavanaugh: Segment profit margins expanded by 210 basis points in software and 120 basis points in infrastructure, driven by ongoing productivity actions.
Analyst Q&A
Analyst Brian Essex asked: Arvind, I caught the prepared remarks, or at least some of the news remarks that you had about clients deploying super intelligence in ways that transform entire operating models. I appreciate that that's more than just increasing operating efficiency. The question I have for you is, as your customers assess those transformation efforts, how focused are they on sovereign AI? Management Arvind Krishna answered: Brian, thank you first for the question, and thank you for noticing the precise words I did use in the prepared remarks. To get to sovereign AI, sovereign AI is definitely becoming a much larger conversation. While we have talked about it for the last year and a half, I would not tell you that in 2024 it had much traction. In 2025, a few people began to pay some attention, and in 2026 it is now beginning to pick up.
