News/M&A/Mar 17, 2026

IBM completes $11B Confluent acquisition at $31 per share in cash

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IBM completed its acquisition of Confluent, the Apache Kafka data-streaming company, for $31 per share in cash, about $11B in enterprise value. Day-one integrations include streaming live events into watsonx.data, streaming IBM Z transaction data for analytics and AI, and extending IBM MQ and webMethods. The deal adds a real-time data layer to IBM's Software segment.

  • $31 per share in cash; about $11B enterprise value
  • Closed March 17, 2026
  • Day-one integrations: watsonx.data, IBM Z transaction streams, IBM MQ, webMethods
Source
IBM Newsroom
Mar 17, 2026
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