In 2010, International Business Machines? (IBM) then-CEO Sam Palmisano unveiled the company?s 2015 Roadmap in which management detailed its plans to grow (non-GAAP) operating earnings to ?at least $20? per share by 2015. This plan was the successor to a 2010 Roadmap, originally unveiled in 2007, in which management outlined its plan to deliver ?at least $10? in earnings per share by 2010. Since the company ultimately exceeded its 2010 Roadmap expectations and delivered $11.52 in 2010 earnings per share, the 2015 Roadmap was generally met with enthusiasm by

As analysts,we are constantly searching for opportunities to purchases hares of a business at a meaningful discount to our estimate of intrinsic value, or short shares of a business at a meaningful premium to our estimate of intrinsic value. While this premium or discount is often a function of our estimate of the value of the businesss future earnings power, it can also be the result of the current market price not properly reflecting the value of assets on a companys balance sheet.