Segment Results for Fourth Quarter
● | Software (includes Hybrid Platform & Solutions, Transaction Processing)— revenues of $7.3 billion, up 8.2 percent, up 10.1 percent at constant currency (including about 5 points from incremental external sales to Kyndryl): |
- Hybrid Platform & Solutions up 7 percent, up 9 percent at constant currency (including about 1 point from incremental external sales to Kyndryl):
-- Red Hat up 19 percent, up 21 percent at constant currency
-- Automation up 13 percent, up 15 percent at constant currency
-- Data & AI up 1 percent, up 3 percent at constant currency
-- Security down 2 percent, down 1 percent at constant currency
- Transaction Processing up 11 percent, up 14 percent at constant currency (including about 16 points from incremental external sales to Kyndryl)
- Software segment hybrid cloud revenue up 22 percent, up 24 percent at constant currency
● | Consulting (includes Business Transformation, Technology Consulting and Application Operations)— revenues of $4.7 billion, up 13.1 percent, up 15.7 percent at constant currency: |
- Business Transformation up 18 percent, up 20 percent at constant currency
- Technology Consulting up 14 percent, up 19 percent at constant currency
- Application Operations up 6 percent, up 8 percent at constant currency
- Consulting segment hybrid cloud revenue up 31 percent, up 34 percent at constant currency
● | Infrastructure (includes Hybrid Infrastructure, Infrastructure Support)— revenues of $4.4 billion, down 0.2 percent, up 1.7 percent at constant currency (including about 5 points from incremental external sales to Kyndryl): |
- Hybrid Infrastructure flat, up 2 percent at constant currency (including about 4 points from incremental external sales to Kyndryl)
-- IBM Z down 6 percent, down 4 percent at constant currency
-- Distributed Infrastructure up 5 percent, up 7 percent at constant currency
- Infrastructure Support down 1 percent, up 1 percent at constant currency (including about 6 points from incremental external sales to Kyndryl)
- Infrastructure segment hybrid cloud revenue down 12 percent, down 11 percent at constant currency
● | Financing (includes client and commercial financing)— revenues of $0.2 billion, down 29.4 percent, down 28.8 percent at constant currency |
Cash Flow and Balance Sheet
On a consolidated basis, full-year cash from operating activities was $12.8 billion and free cash flow was $6.5 billion. These consolidated results include ten months of Kyndryl results, and reflect cash paid in 2021 for separation charges and fourth-quarter 2020 structural actions.
IBM’s post-separation baseline free cash flow for the year was $7.9 billion excluding Kyndryl charges and pre-separation activity. This view is aligned to the company’s go-forward business. Payments for IBM-related structural actions and deferred cash taxes paid in 2021 contributed to the year-to-year decline in the post-separation baseline free cash flow.
IBM ended the year with $7.6 billion of cash on hand (which includes marketable securities), down $6.7 billion from year-end 2020, reflecting acquisitions of $3.3 billion and debt reduction payments consistent with the company’s previously-stated intention to deleverage. Debt, including Financing debt of $13.9 billion, totaled $51.7 billion, down $9.6 billion since the end of 2020, and down more than $21 billion since closing the Red Hat acquisition. The company returned $5.9 billion to shareholders in dividends.
Full-Year 2022 Expectations
The company will discuss 2022 expectations during today’s quarterly earnings conference call.