Michael Dell will go down as "one of the greatest financial engineers of all time," analyst says.
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Dell and Palo [clears throat] Alto, both
of which reported after the bell. The
company raised its annual sales forecast
by $25 billion. Um that means that
revenue in this fiscal year, which ends
in January, $192 billion. 74 billion of
that is from the sale of AI servers.
Their nonI server business is actually
also really strong right now.
>> Michael Dell is will probably go down in
history as one of the greatest financial
engineers of all time. I mean, if you
think about the various iterations and
spinouts and take privates and, you
know, Silver Lake LBOS's that he's
managed to create
>> a lot of money for himself obviously,
but huge amounts of money for
shareholders. And I do think it's
interesting that Dell is doing so well,
is performing so strongly and is just
one of a crop of like left for dead
names. HPE is another company that
>> yeah,
>> two, three years ago people would not
have seen as the success story that it's
been this year. Intel is a great
example, although with a helping hand
from from Secretary Lutnik and the
president. The question for all these
companies will again come down to supply
chain. Their input the cost of their
inputs is going up dramatically. How
much longer will customers be willing to
stomach the kind of price increases that
these supply or these manufacturers have
to make specifically around memory?
>> Well, here's what's interesting. Their
operating expenses as a percentage of
sales were the lowest in Dell's history
at 8%. But part of that is because
they've been ris raising prices
>> and you can charge whatever you
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This segment discusses Dell's impressive financial performance, specifically highlighting its raised sales forecast driven by significant revenue from AI servers. The discussion also touches on Michael Dell's legacy as a financial strategist and compares Dell's recent success to other industry players like HPE and Intel, while raising concerns about the long-term sustainability of price increases due to rising input costs.
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