Filed Pursuant to Rule 433

Registration Number 333-168333

 

$2,000,000,000
1.950% Notes Due July 22, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation
July 19, 2011
Pricing Term Sheet

 

Issuer

 

International Business Machines Corporation

Expected Issuer Ratings*

 

Aa3/A+/A+ (Moody’s/S&P/Fitch)

Format

 

SEC Registered

Trade Date

 

July 19, 2011

Settlement Date

 

(T+3); July 22, 2011

Size

 

$2,000,000,000

Maturity

 

July 22, 2016

Interest Payment Dates

 

January 22 and July 22

First Payment Date

 

January 22, 2012

Benchmark Treasury

 

1.500% due June, 2016

Benchmark Treasury Yield

 

1.421%

Spread to Benchmark Treasury

 

T + 65 bps

Yield to Maturity

 

2.071%

Coupon

 

1.950%

Make-Whole Call

 

T + 15 bps

Price to Public

 

99.428%

Underwriting Discount

 

0.250%

Net Proceeds to Issuer

 

99.178%

Day Count

 

30/360

Minimum Denomination

 

$100,000 and multiples of $1,000

Bookrunners

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

UBS Securities LLC

Co-Managers

 

Loop Capital Markets, LLC

Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.

Santander Investment Securities Inc.

CUSIP

 

459200 GX3

ISIN/Common Code

 

US459200GX35

 

*Note: A securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time.

 

The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates.  Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering.  You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov.  Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. toll free at 800-503-4611, Goldman, Sachs & Co. toll free at 866-471-2526, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. toll free at 866-811-8049 or UBS Securities LLC toll free at 877-827-6444 (extension 561-3884).

 

This pricing term sheet supplements the preliminary form of prospectus supplement issued by International Business Machines Corporation on July 19, 2011 relating to its Prospectus dated July 27, 2010.