ну, может не совсем ещё, но осталось недолго. в прошлом квартале продали на $13.5 млрд. На весь прошлый год--оборот $50 млрд.
Так то, братцы-кролики. Не пройдёт и пару лет, и ДЕЛЛ+IBM+Microsoft+Интел будут больше, чем вся экономика России вместе взятая.
Dell Sets 4th-Quarter Record for Sales
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 10, 2005
Filed at 7:19 p.m. ET
DALLAS (AP) — Helped by big increases in sales overseas and to U.S. businesses, personal computer giant Dell Inc. set a fourth-quarter record for revenue but saw its profit fall because of a tax charge.
Dell said Thursday it earned $667 million or 26 cents per share in the quarter ended Jan. 28, compared to $749 million or 29 cents per share a year earlier.
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The results included a tax charge of 11 cents per share, which Dell said it took in anticipation of bringing foreign earnings home.
The company will be taxed on those earnings, although under a law passed by Congress last year, it will pay a much lower rate than it would on income in the United States.
Without the charge, Dell would have earned 37 cents per share. On that basis, analysts had expected Round Rock-based Dell to earn 36 cents a share, according to Thomson First Call.
Revenue rose 17 percent to $13.46 billion from $11.51 billion.
Chief executive Kevin Rollins said the company expects first-quarter earnings of about 37 cents per share, a penny above analysts' forecasts, but his estimate of $13.4 billion in revenue fell short of the $13.5 billion that analysts were forecasting.
Before the report, Dell shares gained 58 cents, to $41.57, on the Nasdaq Stock Market, but they fell $1.17 or 2.8 percent in after-hours trading.
For several years, Dell has set a goal of hitting $60 billion in annual revenue. It just missed $50 billion in the year just ended, and Rollins predicted that Dell would hit its goal in the fiscal year ending in January 2006.
The new goal, he said, is $80 billion in sales, but he didn't set a timetable.
``We're high on the company and believe that the market is going to be pretty good for us to get there,'' he told reporters.
Fourth-quarter sales rose 22 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 21 percent in Asia. Sales to U.S. business customers gained 19 percent from a year earlier, Dell said.
Dell's revenue jumped despite falling average sales prices on many of the products it sells.
``This is, once again, share-taking,'' said Barry Jaruzelski, a managing partner in the technology practice at consultants Booz Allen Hamilton. He said Dell was likely to grab even more of the PC market because of its ability to produce machines at low cost, and could continue to expand into new categories.
While rival PC makers have struggled, Dell has solidified its market-leading position and looked for new worlds to conquer. It has moved into servers and data-storage gear, consumer electronics — from plasma-screen televisions to digital music players — and corporate technology services.
Rollins said Dell TVs and music players sold better than expected but consumer PC purchases didn't grow as quickly in the United States. ``These things go in cycles,'' he said. Consumer goods, however, are a relatively small part of Dell's business.
Dell continues to roll up impressive profits. Meanwhile, International Business Machines Corp. has announced plans to sell its PC business, and Hewlett-Packard Co. is still waiting to reap dividends from acquiring PC maker Compaq.
For its full fiscal year, Dell earned $3.04 billion, or $1.18 per share, compared with $2.65 billion, or $1.01 per share, in 2003. Revenue rose to $49.21 billion from $41.44 billion.
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