Jefferies Upholds Buy on IBM, Points to watsonx Mainframe AI as Key Modernization Tool
Jefferies reaffirmed a Buy rating and a $370.00 price target on International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) after market concerns that AI code assistants could accelerate migration from COBOL. The firm highlighted IBM's watsonx Code Assistant for Z as a direct response, embedding generative AI into the mainframe to refactor COBOL into Java and…