[Techtaffy Newsdesk]
Dell has announced its fiscal 2013 first quarter results. Revenue for the quarter was $14.4 billion, with operating income of $824 million, and earnings of 36 cents per share.
Results
- Revenue in the quarter was $14.4 billion, a 4 percent decrease from the previous year.
- Earnings per share in the quarter was 36 cents, down 27 percent from the previous year.
- Operating income for the quarter was $824 million, or 5.7 percent of revenue.
- Cash used in operations in the quarter was $138 million. For the past four quarters, Dell has generated $4.9 billion in cash flow. Dell ended the quarter with $17.2 billion in cash and investments.
Strategic Highlights:
- Dell Enterprise Solutions and Services revenue grew 2 percent year over year to $4.5 billion and contributed half of Dell’s gross margin. The ESS revenue grew 5 percent excluding third-party storage.
- Dell Services revenue was $2.1 billion, up 4 percent. Services backlog increased 9 percent to $15.4 billion.
- Dell-owned storage grew 24 percent to $423 million.
- Server and networking revenue grew 2 percent.
Business Units and Regions:
- Large Enterprise revenue was $4.4 billion in the quarter, a 3 percent decline. Operating income for the quarter was $402 million, or 9.1 percent of revenue.
- Public revenue was $3.5 billion, a 4 percent decrease. Operating income for the quarter was $271 million, or 7.8 percent of revenue.
- Small and Medium Business revenue grew 4 percent to $3.5 billion. Enterprise Solutions and Services revenue increased 17 percent, led by services revenue growth of 23 percent and servers and networking of 16 percent. SMB had $389 million in operating income, or 11.2 percent of revenue.
- Consumer revenue was $3 billion, a 12 percent decline. Operating income was $32 million or 1.1 percent of revenue.
- Asia-Pacific and Japan revenue was flat but China increased 9 percent. EMEA revenue was down 1 percent in the quarter. Americas was down 7 percent. Revenue in the BRIC countries increased 4 percent.
Company Outlook: Dell expects second quarter revenue to be in line with historical seasonal trends and be up 2-4 percent from first-quarter levels.