Filed Pursuant to Rule 433

Registration Number 333-190160

 

International Business Machines Corporation
July 29, 2013
Pricing Term Sheet

 

3.375% Notes due 2023

Floating Rate Notes due 2015

 

Issuer

 

International Business Machines Corporation

Expected Issuer Ratings*

 

Aa3/AA-/A+ (Moody’s/S&P/Fitch)

Format

 

SEC Registered

Trade Date

 

July 29, 2013

Settlement Date

 

(T+3); August 1, 2013

Joint Bookrunning Managers

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

Co-Managers

 

Lebenthal & Co., LLC, Loop Capital Markets LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. and Santander Investment Securities Inc.

 

 

2023 Notes

 

Floating Rate Notes

Size

 

$1,500,000,000

 

$650,000,000

Maturity

 

August 1, 2023

 

July 29, 2015

Interest Payment Dates

 

February 1 and August 1

 

Quarterly on January 29, April 29, July 29 and October 29

First Interest Payment Date

 

February 1, 2014

 

October 29, 2013

Coupon

 

3.375%

 

Spread to LIBOR:

 

+ 3 bps

 

 

 

 

Designated LIBOR page:

 

Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page

 

 

 

 

Index Maturity:

 

3 Months

 

 

 

 

Interest Reset Period:

 

Quarterly

 

 

 

 

Interest Reset Dates:

 

January 29, April 29, July 29 and October 29

 

 

 

 

Initial Interest Rate:

 

Three month LIBOR plus 3 bps, determined on July 30, 2013

Benchmark Treasury

 

1.750% due May 15, 2023

 

Not Applicable

Benchmark Treasury Yield

 

2.583%

 

Not Applicable

Spread to Benchmark Treasury

 

T + 83 bps

 

Not Applicable

Yield to Maturity

 

3.413%

 

Not Applicable

Make-Whole Call

 

T + 12.5 bps

 

Not Applicable

Par Call

 

Not Applicable

 

Not Applicable

Price to Public

 

99.680%

 

100%

Underwriting Discount

 

0.40%

 

0.10%

Day Count

 

30/360

 

Actual/360, Modified Following Business Day

Minimum Denomination

 

$100,000 and multiples of $1,000

 

$100,000 and multiples of $1,000

CUSIP

 

459200 HP9

 

459200 HN4

ISIN

 

US459200HP91

 

US459200HN44

 


*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 Citigroup Global Markets Inc. toll-free at (800) 831-9146, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC toll-free at (800) 221-1037, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at (212) 834-4533 and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC toll-free at (866) 718-1649.

 

This pricing term sheet supplements the preliminary form of prospectus supplement issued by International Business Machines Corporation on July 29, 2013 relating to its Prospectus dated July 26, 2013.