Great News, IBM 'Gained' Almost 10% in "Goodwill" Value After Firing Tens of Thousands in 2025
Did IBM's fictional, so-called 'goodwill' really increase ~8 billion dollars last year? It has, according to IBM: (contrary to what Microsoft says, as it claims a decrease)
Previously: IBM Gained Almost 6 Billion Dollars in "Goodwill" Value in Just 3 Months, According to IBM | IBM Says That Half of Its "Assets" is Basically Pure Fiction ("Goodwill")
Good news, folks! When IBM has nothing left to sell maybe it can auction off its "goodwill" - whatever that is (not patents). See, companies value themselves based on pure fiction.
As folks put it earlier today: "The $12.5B AI number is pure fiction. Just tagging legacy stuff as AI. Same as IBM did with CAMSS a decade ago and got sued over. Shareholders will figure it out eventually but AK/JK will be long gone by then and it will be the next guy's problem."
A prior comment said: "Can't wait to see how much sales shrink in a few years when customers lose their appetites for AI. Perhaps quantum will be all the rage by that point."
IBM is "always behind as well chasing the trends or just trying to catch up," somebody said 4 hours ago.
Don't worry, debt will increase, IBM will buy things (to fake 'growth'), and "goodwill" will be inflated despite IBM staff getting sick of IBM. █