Today my stock in focus is $IBM(IBM)$ , after a 13% plunge sparked by concerns that Anthropic’s Claude Code could disrupt its lucrative COBOL modernization business. Since COBOL underpins critical systems in banking and government, IBM has long benefited from complex, consultant-heavy upgrades — a moat now being challenged by AI-driven automation.

The market is questioning whether AI can compress projects that once took years into quarters, potentially reshaping IBM’s consulting economics. That explains the sharp repricing.

However, IBM isn’t standing still. With over $12.5B in generative AI business and Watsonx already supporting COBOL refactoring, the real debate is whether IBM becomes the disruptor — or gets disrupted.

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# 💰Stocks to watch today?(25 Feb)

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