# IBM's Nine-Month Free Cash Flow Was $7.8 Billion, Not $8 Billion By John Kim Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/38058 Published: 2026-10-22T16:07:20.000Z Updated: 2026-10-22T16:07:20.000Z Section: Business > The corrected total for the first nine months of 2026 was up $600 million from a year earlier. IBM generated $7.8 billion in free cash flow during the first nine months of 2026, an increase of $600 million from a year earlier. An earlier [report on IBM's third-quarter results]() listed the nine-month total as $8.0 billion. This article corrects that figure to $7.8 billion. ## Links in this article - [report on IBM's third-quarter results](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/37979)