Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

Exhibit 99.1 of this Form 8-K contains the prepared remarks for IBM's Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna and Chief Financial Officer Jim Kavanaugh's third-quarter 2020 earnings presentation to investors on October 19, 2020.

Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures discussed in the earnings presentation to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP are included as Exhibit 99.2 of this Form 8-K. The slides used in Messrs. Krishna and Kavanaugh's third-quarter 2020 earnings presentation are Exhibit 99.3 to the company's Form 8-K submitted to the SEC on October 19, 2020.

The information in this Item 7.01, including the corresponding Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2, is being furnished with the Commission and shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and includes the following information from the question and answer period of the earnings presentation and comments from senior management at the WSJ Tech Live conference on October 20, 2020, which has been edited to provide additional context and clarity:

· The company expects the dollar increase of revenue from third-quarter to

fourth-quarter 2020 to be in line with historical averages.

The company expects the percentage increase of operating (non-GAAP) earnings

· per share from third-quarter to fourth-quarter 2020 to be consistent with or


   slightly ahead of the historical average over the past few years, before the
   $2.3 billion dollar fourth-quarter charge for structural actions.


   The company expects to deliver sustainable mid-single digit revenue growth in
   the medium term, which is after completion of the separation of its managed

· infrastructure services business. The company expects to show milestones,


   including improving revenue growth by the middle of 2021 as it progesses toward
   mid-single digit growth. For example, the Global Business Services segment is
   expected to return to pre-COVID revenue growth rates by mid-year 2021.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibits are being furnished as part of this report:




Exhibit No.                        Description of Exhibit
99.1            Prepared Remarks of Earnings Presentation on October 19, 2020
99.2            Non-GAAP Supplemental Materials

The following exhibit is being filed as part of this report:






Exhibit No.                           Description of Exhibit
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               file does not appear in the
               Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the
               Inline XBRL document

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