The Mining Company (NASDAQ: TMC) hopes to produce nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese once it builds its mining operation. These metals are critical to industries like energy, manufacturing, and defense. The real story here, however, is that The Mining Company's operations are expected to be located deep under the sea. The money-losing company is a high-risk investment, but there is an increasin...
The Mining Company (NASDAQ: TMC) hopes to produce nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese once it builds its mining operation. These metals are critical to industries like energy, manufacturing, and defense. The real story here, however, is that The Mining Company's operations are expected to be located deep under the sea. The money-losing company is a high-risk investment, but there is an increasingly supportive backdrop to consider. The Metals Company doesn't generate any revenues at this point. It is spending heavily on exploration and evaluation, with the hope of someday building a deep-sea mine. It is difficult and expensive to build and operate a traditional mine ; it is even more difficult and expensive to do that underwater. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Earnings Call Insights: International Business Machines (IBM) Q1 2026 Management view “IBM is off to a strong start to 2026,” said CEO Arvind Krishna, pointing to “Revenue in the first quarter grew 6% and combined with strong margin expansion, drove 13% growth in free cash flow.” Krishna said “Software revenue grew 8%, with Data and Red Hat growing double digits,” and added, “Infrastructure grew 1...
Earnings Call Insights: International Business Machines (IBM) Q1 2026 Management view “IBM is off to a strong start to 2026,” said CEO Arvind Krishna, pointing to “Revenue in the first quarter grew 6% and combined with strong margin expansion, drove 13% growth in free cash flow.” Krishna said “Software revenue grew 8%, with Data and Red Hat growing double digits,” and added, “Infrastructure grew 12% with another record Z quarter, up 48%,” while “Consulting grew 1% with momentum in enterprise data and business application transformations.” Krishna highlighted portfolio moves and partnerships, including “Confluent, which we closed this past quarter,” and said IBM “announced strategic collaborations with NVIDIA” and “a strategic collaboration with Arm to expand how AI workloads run across IBM infrastructure.” Krishna introduced two product announcements: “IBM Bob, our AI-based software development system, is now generally available,” and “We also introduced Sovereign Core, software that lets organizations run AI workloads under their own operational authority within a defined jurisdiction and auditable controls.” CFO James Kavanaugh said, “In the first quarter, we delivered 6% revenue growth, 140 basis points of operating pre-tax margin expansion, 17% adjusted EBITDA growth, 19% diluted operating earnings per share growth and $2.2 billion of free cash flow.” Outlook Kavanaugh reiterated full-year expectations: “The strong start to the year drives our confidence in delivering constant currency revenue growth of 5-plus percent in 2026 and free cash flow growth of about $1 billion year-over-year.” Kavanaugh said IBM is holding its outlook despite Q1 momentum: “Given where we are in the year, we believe it is prudent to maintain our guidance even as the underlying performance and execution are off to an encouraging start.” Segment direction was framed as: “Software business, which we now expect to grow 10-plus percent this year,” Consulting “to low to mid-single digits for...