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Michael Dell will go down as "one of the greatest financial engineers of all time," analyst says.

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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

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of which reported after the bell. The

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company raised its annual sales forecast

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by $25 billion. Um that means that

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revenue in this fiscal year, which ends

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in January, $192 billion. 74 billion of

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that is from the sale of AI servers.

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Their nonI server business is actually

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also really strong right now.

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>> Michael Dell is will probably go down in

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history as one of the greatest financial

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engineers of all time. I mean, if you

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think about the various iterations and

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spinouts and take privates and, you

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know, Silver Lake LBOS's that he's

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managed to create

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>> a lot of money for himself obviously,

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but huge amounts of money for

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shareholders. And I do think it's

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interesting that Dell is doing so well,

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is performing so strongly and is just

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one of a crop of like left for dead

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names. HPE is another company that

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>> yeah,

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>> two, three years ago people would not

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have seen as the success story that it's

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been this year. Intel is a great

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example, although with a helping hand

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from from Secretary Lutnik and the

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president. The question for all these

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companies will again come down to supply

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chain. Their input the cost of their

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inputs is going up dramatically. How

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much longer will customers be willing to

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stomach the kind of price increases that

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these supply or these manufacturers have

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to make specifically around memory?

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>> Well, here's what's interesting. Their

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operating expenses as a percentage of

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sales were the lowest in Dell's history

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at 8%. But part of that is because

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they've been ris raising prices

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>> and you can charge whatever you

Interactive Summary

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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