TradingKey – The most important week for International Business Machines in all of 2026 comes after the largest crash for its stock in history. On July 14 the stock was down more than 25% after releasing Q2 numbers which showed revenue and profits lower than expected. Now, the situation has only become more difficult with the start of an investigation of securities fraud for the alleged manipulation of a sales pipeline by the company executives.

The official Q2 earnings release is on July 22 and investors will be closely watching for updates to guidance, the status of deals, AI software progress, and the free cash flow.