24/7 Wall St. Most Overpaid CEO Of The Day: Dell (DELL) CEO Michael Dell

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Published: August 29, 2008 7:44 am

Last Updated: April 27, 2020 2:52 pm

Dell20logo Poor Michael Dell, CEO of Dell (DELL), only made $2.3 million last year. Of course, he is a billionaire and owns over 227 million shares in the company he runs.

His shareholders have not done so well. Dell announced a drop in earnings of 17%. Profit margins were bad. That means that companies like Apple (AAPL) and HP (HPQ) are lunching on Dell’s customers.

Dell’s shares should be down about 10% today, trading at $22.50, well below their 52-week high of $30.77.

Maybe Dell should not have sacked former CEO Kevin Rollins in early February of 2007. The stock was doing better back then.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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