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DELL: A Smaller Slice of a Shrinking Pie

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By Willaim Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat

Dell Reports Preliminary Revenue of $14.4 Billion; Preliminary Earnings Per Share of $0.30: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance

Dell (DELL) reported preliminary results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2007, with revenue of $14.4 billion, operating income of $801 million, and earnings per share of $0.30. Dell ended the quarter with $12.5 billion in cash and investments.

That revenue number marks a decline of more than 5% on a year/year basis. And with Dell shrinking, and both Hewlett Packard (HPQ) and Ingram Micro (IM) expecting revenue growth to slow, we wouldn’t be surprised if the industry as a whole posted lower revenue in the quarter. It wouldn’t be hard, as Gartner was already forecasting it would be flat. Dell appears to have a smaller slice of what may be a smaller pie.
This despite the Windows Vista launch.

Meanwhile, we still have no balance sheet or statement of cash flows due to the ongoing options investigation. Move along, folks. There’s nothing to see here.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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