On the Record · IBM
IBM acquisitions, on the record
The businesses IBM bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.
Deals its annual reports describe
IBM’s annual reports for 2022 to 2025 name no acquisition or sale of a business.
| Fiscal year ended | Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired) | Goodwill from acquisitions |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-31 | $5.7 billion | $4.24 billion |
| 2017-12-31 | $496 million | $16 million |
| 2018-12-31 | $139 million | $34 million |
| 2019-12-31 | $32.63 billion | $23.1 billion |
| 2020-12-31 | $336 million | $575 million |
| 2021-12-31 | $3.29 billion | $2.55 billion |
| 2022-12-31 | $2.35 billion | $1.93 billion |
| 2023-12-31 | $5.08 billion | $3.95 billion |
| 2024-12-31 | $3.29 billion | $1.99 billion |
| 2025-12-31 | $8.29 billion | $5.91 billion |
Deal filings since 2016
- 2026-06-23 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2025-06-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2024-06-21 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2024-02-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2023-06-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2022-07-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2021-11-04 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
- 2021-06-25 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2020-07-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2019-07-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2019-07-09 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
- 2018-10-29 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2018-07-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Read from IBM’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-24. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.