Yesterday, Dell reported on the fiscal quarter, which ended on 3 May . The company makes every effort to become a private company and to restructure the business without considering the vagaries of the shareholders.
Shareholders, however, also do their best to make the most profitably sell Dell stock . Naturally, the concept benefits from two opposing groups are quite different, leading to ongoing conflicts .
Regarding the work of Dell, a quarterly revenue for the year almost unchanged at $ 14.07 billion - is only 2% less than in the same quarter, but a year earlier. But profit is not good. Net profit for the period fell by 79% to $ 130 million a year ago the company received $ 635 million Hardest subsided unit occupied by the release of personal computers - especially laptops. To be more precise, PC sales fell by 9% and brought the company $ 8.9 billion with operating profit declined 65% to $ 224 million Meanwhile, it is also clear that the sale of the PC brings the company more revenue than all the other departments. At the same time, earnings in this sector is rapidly declining. For Chinese companies, this is not yet a problem . By the way, Dell in the next two quarters, expects the same trend - the slow instillation of the personal computer market.
The company, they say, aims to be competitive, so investing in marketing and development, in particular - in software support. Also, about $ 90 million were due to unplanned costs related to the struggle for Dell privatization .
Server direction worked relatively well. Sales of servers and networking equipment for the year rose by 14%, while sales of storage in the same period fell by 10%. Service division of the company has increased its sales by 2%. The complex corporate direction Dell showed better dynamics than the direction to produce PCs.