DELL Stock Report
2-Year Price History
Recent Price
(7/2 4:00PM)
-3.1%
$12.97
52-Week Price
$7.84 - $26.04
Market Capitalization
$25.3 Billion
Most Recent Dividend
$0.00
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DELL Revenue
For a long time, value investors have used the current share price relative to sales per share levels as an important valuation tool. We utilize a historical weighted average methodology that treats recent years more importantly in the calculation. When looking at DELL through this framework, we can see that our weighted average historical high and low Price to Sales per share ratios over the last 10 years are 1.60x and 0.94x respectively.
Utilizing this range we can see that DELL’s current Price to Sales per share ratio of 0.39x is significantly below its average levels historically. In fact, with a current price of $12.97, DELL is a full 70% below its average Price to Sales ratio at comparable sales levels. This is a rare occurrence and, when taken in context of the other areas of our analysis, can be a strong positive for our outlook for DELL.
DELL Cash Earnings
Looking at DELL specifically in their Cash Earnings capabilities, Ockham views DELL as significantly below its historical average multiple of Cash Earnings. Looking at the last 10 years we can get a good understanding of what investors have grown to expect from DELL. For example, DELL's Cash Earnings ratio per share has fluctuated between 14.93 and 25.73 over this historical timeframe. This range is based upon a proprietary weighted methodology at Ockham, but can clearly show an investor where DELL is with respect to prior business periods.
So with DELL's current price (latest close of $12.97) and most recent level of Cash Earnings reported, we see significant opportunity from a value perspective. At its current price level, DELL is 56% below its average level of Price to Cash Earnings on a historical basis. This means that investors were willing to pay for a much higher stock price than currently for the same level of Cash in the past, on a relative basis. There are a couple of important things to remember, however. First, value doesn't exist in a vacuum. So if the market doesn't recognize this value, even a great disparity in Price to Cash Earnings cannot force an immediate stock price reaction. Second, patience is key when looking at securities that have reached these levels of Price to Cash Earnings versus their historical norms. So be patient with DELL.
DELL Dividends
When determining a company's future prospects for success, Ockham Research sees analysis of dividend payments as a key additional factor. Even though it isn't imperative for DELL to shell out a dividend in order to receive a positive rating, it can be helpful to further our analysis. As far as our investing methodology goes, it is not necessary to pay a dividend in order to get a favorable rating, so as for right now DELL gets a neutral rating for the dividend portion of the model. As you can see, we are not receiving historical dividend information from our data provider on DELL at this time.
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“…Cap names that are strong today. Microsoft, cisco, oracle up better than 1.4% all the way to oracle up 1.9%. On the down side I want to say DELL, rim, and ebay all struggling today. I do want to point out very quickly corga has this deal with biogen idec on an ms therapy treatment. …” …more details…
“…Obviously, you have financials. Prudential is the best of the but cbs coming in number three, up 79%. DELL up. Ebay, viacom, sprint, in top people betting against the consumer late last year, early last year, the best performing bets in the second >> tech on a roll. What are you watching, chris? …” …more details…
“…To buy at bank of america with a $26 price target. What I want to point out is with smart phones and gaming, there is a story about apple and how gaming is huge. DELL is coming up with a mobile internet device. It's not going to add phone capabilities, but I talked to analysts and the bottom line is there is growth in gaming on the smart phone. You have a little screen and it …” …more details…
“…Watch that one. There rumors about an apple switch and DELL and others and negative activity. >> talk about the next trade, certainly th economy will be a …” …more details…
“…Requirement, which was supposed to take effect tomorrow which is more censorship at best, and worse, something that could cause security issues. Heat pact and DELL remained silent on the issue. This could have affected a wide swath of tech, including sony, microsoft and intel. China said this was all about trying to protect web surfers …” …more details…
“…Postponing itsply personal computer makers personal filtering software. So retreating in the face of protests by washington and chinese web surfers, and also some of the stocks are hp DELL retreating somewhat down, 1.4% on hp. DELL down 8/10 of a percent. Apple, however, trading the flat line there. >> thanks so much. To raise taxes to bring did you know the deficit? Roger altman a former member of …” …more details…
“…Of last year and we also have a bit of gold obviously to protect against inflation. We do find the opportunities in high quality u.S. Names. Microsoft, ebay, DELL, which are for a number of reasons shall the economy, but also, I think misstep by management in a number of cases and where the balance sheets are very strong, and you don't need to reinvest …” …more details…
“…Intel up 0.2%. Broadcom upped their ante for emulex some of the laggard, yahoo! Ebay, cisco and DELL, those are your big hitters that we talked about coffee on "squawk on the street," starbucks down 4% today. Morgan stanley did not like what he it saw in terms of sales in the month of may. …” …more details…
“…Mean that all of those smart and capable people that you just mentioned aren't going to be able to out innovate competitors and they will. >> I want to ask you about headlines this afternoon that DELL computer is developing a device, a hand held internet device that will use google's android software. How would this at all impact apple? >> I think it's a little bit early. DELL is already reportedly …” …more details…
“…Clients who are indirect obviously. What will you do? >> we are representing a couple groups of investors who invested in feeder funds through third party advisors who claim delay were going to do proper due DELL jens in recommending funds for them. We are filing arbitrations on behalf of the investors. The problem is a lot of the third party advisors the fairfield greenwich or …” …more details…
“…Banks weaker today. Declines facing in advance. The chips were all up. Now the semiconductor index is down. Intel having its gains. Still positive by .7. DELL, according to bernstein, looking at a small to medium size acquisition. Could be another computer that's positive by 1%. Microsoft strong still. Up 2%. 1.8% in this market. Very good. …” …more details…
“…>> caller: the question is about I bought it around $18. It fell to $6. It's fighting its way back up what do you think? You take a look at DELL. DELL reported really bad number. Write home about. They issued -- raised a couple the stock has been going up regularly. I think that's signaling a buy in to something like a jbl, so …” …more details…
“…Is conceivable -- conceived there are only three auto companies here in the country and there are -- could be, hundreds, dow could start making cars if the government got out of the way and allowed DELL to buy gm's factories on 2 cents on the dollar like they should have been able to and are there any other companies, besides tesla and other welfare begging …” …more details…
“…Whether it's the scmartphone which I real really shows you how much the consumer is constrained or not constraineded whether it's the chip sector which has been amazingly you look at texas instruments and DELL and intel, all of them are holding the gains they made after earnings. Tech is the place -- >> you said on the "halftime report" you were a buyer of the smartphone makers and they were up across the board. …” …more details…
“…Extrapolate from one company's results to the rest of the I don't want you ever to extrapolate from motorola to hewlett-packard hewlett-packard. Never extrapolate from DELL to that's the case when one of those companies is a loser. It happens in every industry, not just in tech. Companies hide behind other companies in the sector when they drop the ball. …” …more details…
“…Always seek to pin the blame for their failings on the entire industry. Believe them at your own peril. This happens endlessly. And people are fooled daily. For instance, when DELL says things are bad and motorola says things are bad, you shouldn't necessarily sell the computer hardware or semiconductor stocks based on that because they're competitors and suppliers. Let me tell you something. Just on this one particular point, every time motorola has said things are bad and DELL says things are bad, every single one of the players in the area sells off. Religiously. Apple, apple sells off every single time. …” …more details…
“…Russell reconstitution that is also moving things along. The russell 2000 up 2%. Better performance today than the big caps. That said, take a look at some of the big caps. We've got apple and DELL. Hardware space looking very good. Gartner out with some positive data about profits coming back to mobile pcs in the fourth quarter. Yahoo not moving very much. With that shareholder meeting …” …more details…
“…>> you know, eric might call himself the czar of happy hour, but iowa DELL is the czar of bulls and bears, is that right? All right, guys, deutsche bank, apollo, create suisse are admitting fraud yet again. How many times have I used a …” …more details…
“…Sentence he is going to get. But ike sorkin asking for only >> thank you so much. >>> the market off 42 points on nasdaq lower, as well. This is, of course, after yesterday's big DELL-off. But even though stocks have been moving sideways, there is money to be made. So just exactly how do you make what exactly are the right places right now? Joining us to discuss for the …” …more details…
“…>> that's what gene munster yeah. They said he's been somebody who has been -- other firms have tried to woo him away. DELL was one of the companies that they mentioned tried to hire him in the last few years. He's never been named the interim ceo, although he's taking over twice. …” …more details…
“…But was outweighed by a 23% decline in desktops. Hewlett-packard maintained the top pc maker for the 11th straight quarter, with market share of nearly 20%. DELL's market share, however-s falling again to 13.2%. The federal communications commission will review exclusivity arrangements of cell phones to determine whether they are good for consumers. Critics are arguing exclusivity …” …more details…
“…Which raised capital in the same vain, taking advantage of opportunities to make other acquisitions and position themselves for several years. >> up 2% today. >> i'm watching DELL. Shibani talked about i-supply DELL losing shashth share but not as much as anticipated. Bullish option activity with people placing calls expecting the stock to continue to move higher. >> they have a hot stuff network coming out. What are you looking at? >> it's friday, I want to …” …more details…
“…>> just over a half hour to go here before we close it up for the week, and the dow jones industrial average down by 20 energy pulling back today but technology, maria, clearly a standout. Microsoft up 3%. Apple's higher, DELL's up 5% as >> how is rim doing? Rim reported earnings last night, and right out of the gate as soon as the company reported it was actually under some selling pressure and -- >> still is. Research in motion down 5%. The earnings were better than …” …more details…
“…A new report from the isupply releasing day that the worldwide p.C. Fells 8% in the first quarter, in the biggest drop in seven years. Hewlett-packard picking up the market share while DELL lost it. You're seeing some mixed trading. Largely to the up side. Ibm, the only losing share despite the news and upgrades. Microsoft, this is the most actively traded stock in …” …more details…
“…On "street signs." stifel nicklaus a buy because of its relationship with apple and the iphone. DELL, palm, 5%, 4 1/2%. Yahoo performing at 2.4%. No real news on this traction, just going up with the tech trend. Underperforming slightly is'll …” …more details…
“…Apple's going to have a great quarter because one comes out in late september. DELL, h. P., all that crowd will have a great third quarter. >> cheryl: where does apple stock go? >> tom: higher, much higher. A new phone today. >> cheryl: my best guess is these new regulations coming …” …more details…
“…You've been watching jim goldman at the at&t store, the iphone, obviously not quite as sexy as the original launch, but at&t says hundreds of thousands sold on preorder. Let's talk about who is outperforming, DELL up 6%. Yahoo, 2.5. Palm, better than 10%. Those names are humming. Microsoft conviction buy list at goldman sachs up 2.9. Much google and cisco not quite …” …more details…
“…Same core data that anyone else does, and what you do with it is so, twitter to me represents the democracy tasion of that is the future. >> DELL computer has already shown they can make money with twitter. They post up a special $3 million worth of computers get sold out of the DELL outlet. >> there's billions and billions of dollars to be made. >> but that's what jeff tolver what he there at beginning. Let's talk to these guys and see how they're making money with >> brands and advertisers are really excited about the idea of …” …more details…
“…Brian: ashley, i'm sure you've seen the movie go fellas, I keep thinking about the scene, maury, I want my money, I want my money, you go DELL de niro to give you money and shut up. Do you think that they're going to see the money back? Where does the 6.6 billion going? Jo into the giant void called the federal government. …” …more details…
“…To ubs. The latter may be near a top of potential deal size. That is something to think that's about, only $6.6 billion with DELL at $24 billion. Finally, texas instruments was upgraded to buy from underperforming at merrill it goes to $27 from 18. …” …more details…
“…E-trade financial announcing a $1.2 billion plan to strengthen the capital structure, including a $400 million secondary DELL needs to make changes to the bid. I may have read that wrong last that is according to ubs. They believe DELL may need to make an acquisition as it may take too long to change perot systems may be a good bit …” …more details…
“…E-trade a $1.2 billion plan to strengthen capital structure including $400 million secondary offering. DELL is making changes toist istt's >> regulation, austin goolsbee will be here. Fidelity, traders learn from the pros. Say you want to backtest …” …more details…
“…If we don't pop into the heat pretty soon, natural gas trade will fate into the fall. >> didn't know you were a meteorologist to boot. Technology shares are also ibm, microsoft and DELL among the top traders. Joe, I know you have been a fan …” …more details…
“…Jeffries has taken the stock price from $to $26 from $22 ahead of the must windows apple higher, DELL, just shy of cisco good for a half a%. The reason i'm show inging you these technology stocks in the green, …” …more details…
“…Verz, sprint will carry it. 956789 they have an overweight rating on that stock. But palm is up by 1%. DELL up 1%. Microsoft getting a boost as well p that's ahead of the release of windows 7. Take a look at cisco this morning. …” …more details…
“…Magnificent and you ever to ask her all order of questions -- >> I DELL back with what tart ya said. You saw her in front of the body yumm, don't you? >> i'm voting for her. >> john is the one, he looks like the politician. >> but you know what? …” …more details…
“…Bullish. >> palm continues the pullback, down 3% today. >> I think the trade was ahead of the prerelease back on june 6th. If you're buying it, you're hoping DELL might buy them, but I think that's the only reason. >> the dollar rebound and combine that with a 35% run in the last month, that got a lot of people an opportunity to take …” …more details…
“…Numbers lower. Duponte, merck, boeing, those the biggest laggards. We saw some of the names, DELL, amazon, no big moves. When their target price was raised, they finished to the downside. …” …more details…
“…Saying that a change in leadership at that company that's happened as well as the bottoming out of the ad business will help the company shares we are not seeing it at this same thing going on with DELL, unable to progress, even though goldman upped the company up to a knew trillion and took it off the american sell list and goldman sees sales rebounding and normallizing later on this when we talk about DELL, we'll talk about palm a lot more. Another company in the news getting some analyst moves associated with this. The palm's price target raised from deutche bank and colin stuart, palm and DELL could be potential acquisition and merger candidates, saying that even though neither company talked to each other. Combination of DELL buying palm could be a strategic fit for both companies and they say it's in the market to make a major acquisition. One other stocks that i've been watching, an interesting story …” …more details…