Dell, Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) came out with a solid quarter today after the close, and shares are seeing some after-hours love. The company showed $0.38 EPS on $16.08 Billion in revenues. First Call had already slightly lifted its numbers, but estimates were $0.34 EPS on $15.68 Billion in revenues.
The company said it still continues realigning its business and still expects a headcount reduction with a $3 Billion savings target by 2011. It has cut 7,000 jobs over the last year, and about 3,700 of those were in the first quarter.
Dell did issue $1.5 billion in private placement and medium-term and long-term notes for general corporate purposes. The company spent over $1 billion to repurchase some 52 million shares of stock and the company noted that plans to spend at least $1 billion on additional share buybacks in the second quarter as well. The company ended the quarter with $9.8 billion in cash and equivalents and its weighted average shares were 2.04 billion.
Leading the charge were the following gains:
- Product shipments rose 22%, with servers growing 3-times the industry rate at 21%.
- Storage revenue rose some 15% and enhanced services revenue was up 13%.
- Notebook unit growth rose a whopping 43%, up about 1.2-times the industry growth rate.
Shares of Dell are up $1.50 in after hours trading at $23.31, and that is after a regular close of up 0.55% at $21.81.
Jon C. Ogg
May 29, 2008
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