Why IBM Fell After years of losses, $IBM finally broke the quarterly ‘jinx’ and under-performance by reporting an increase in revenue. So after six straight years of revenue falling, why did IBM stock drop after the report? $IBM, International Business Machines Corporation / H1 Three reasons. Ginni likely told every sales/marketing employee to pull in every possible sale so that it was booked in 4th quarter IBM may have closed a few sales at a loss just to book those revenue numbers. Growth barely picked up for the highly-touted strategic businesses. If there were increases, IBM “earned” them by re-bucketing the existing businesses into it. Rumors from customers: their existing products with IBM moved to these strategic umbrellas. Related: Autodesk $ADSK, Adobe $ABDE, Salesforce $CRM, and Microsoft $MSFT all have better growth characteristics. IBM is a value play but with limited upside potential.Are you buying IBM Stock?Comment below.