Key Facts About Dell Technologies – A Must-Read for Investors

With gains of 5.5%, Dell Technologies was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $57.58 and have logged a -0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

  • Dell Technologies has moved 30.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 10.0%

  • DELL has an average analyst rating of buy and is 4.9% away from its mean target price of $54.89 per share

  • Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.64

  • Dell Technologies has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.8 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97

  • Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $6.13 and its forward P/E ratio is 9.4

  • Dell Technologies is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 27.16 and an average P/B of 6.23

  • DELL has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -42.3% and gross profit margins of 0.2%

  • The company has a free cash flow of $2.32 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter

  • Dell Technologies Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports various comprehensive and integrated solutions, products, and services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) and Client Solutions Group (CSG). The ISG segment provides traditional and next-generation storage solutions, including all-flash arrays, scale-out file, object platforms, hyper-converged infrastructure, and software-defined storage; and rack, blade, tower, and hyperscale servers. This segment also offers networking products and services that help its business customers to transform and modernize their infrastructure, mobilize and enrich end-user experiences, and accelerate business applications and processes; attached software and peripherals; and support and deployment, configuration, and extended warranty services. The CSG segment provides desktops, workstations, and notebooks; displays, docking stations, and other electronics; and third-party software and peripherals, as well as support and deployment, configuration, and extended warranty services. The company is also involved in the provision of cybersecurity technology-driven security solutions to prevent security breaches, detect malicious activity, respond rapidly when a security breach occurs, and identify emerging threats; originating, collecting, and servicing customer financing arrangements; and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions, as well as in the resale of VMware products and services. The company was formerly known as Denali Holding Inc. and changed its name to Dell Technologies Inc. in August 2016. Dell Technologies Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.

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