Dell Technologies Reports Fiscal Year 2019 Third Quarter Financial Results

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --                                             

News summary

• GAAP revenue up 15 percent to $22.5 billion
• Third consecutive quarter of double-digit growth across all reportable segments
• Continued cross-sell synergies across the family of businesses

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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DVMT) announces its fiscal 2019 third quarter results. For the third quarter, revenue was $22.5 billion, up 15 percent, and non-GAAP revenue was $22.7 billion, up 14 percent from the prior period. During the quarter, the company generated a GAAP operating loss of $356 million¹, with a non-GAAP operating income of $2.1 billion, down 2 percent. Cash flow from operations was approximately $833 million.

"The digital transformation of our world is underway, and we are in the early stages of a massive, technology-led investment cycle," said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies. "Dell Technologies was created to meet this opportunity head on for our customers and our investors. You can see the proof in our strong growth, in our powerful innovation and in the depth of our customer relationships."

The company ended the third quarter with a cash and investments balance of $20.4 billion. During the quarter, Dell Technologies paid down approximately $1.3 billion of core debt². Within the past two years, the company has paid down approximately $14.4 billion in gross debt, excluding Dell Financial Services related and subsidiary debt.

"Dell Technologies has assembled a broad set of capabilities and unique position that drive an attractive financial model," said Tom Sweet, chief financial officer, Dell Technologies. "Our third quarter of double-digit growth in all three of our reportable segments shows that our customers increasingly see us as a key partner with a deep portfolio to meet their needs, from the edge to the core to the cloud."

Information about Dell Technologies' use of non-GAAP financial information is provided under "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below. All comparisons in this press release are year over year unless otherwise noted.

"Data is becoming the most valuable and differentiating asset for many organizations as it opens up new revenue streams and unearths opportunities for improvement in almost every part of an organization," said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman, Products & Operations, Dell Technologies. "This presents a tremendous opportunity for Dell Technologies given all of this data needs to be stored, protected, managed and analyzed, and we believe this is evidenced through the strong momentum we've seen in our business."

Operating segments summary

Infrastructure Solutions Group revenue for the third quarter was $8.9 billion, a 19 percent increase. This was driven by revenue of $3.9 billion in storage, a 6 percent increase, and $5.1 billion in servers and networking, a 30 percent increase. Operating income for the third quarter was $935 million, a 7 percent increase driven primarily by server and storage mix dynamics.

Key third quarter highlights:

• Servers and Networking delivered its sixth consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth
• Triple-digit growth for VxRail on a demand basis, and now well above a $1 billion run rate
• Demand was strong for file-based arrays where Dell Technologies is highly differentiated with unmatched scalability, performance and flexibility

Client Solutions Group revenue for the third quarter was $10.9 billion, up 11 percent, with growth across both Commercial and Consumer. Commercial revenue grew 12 percent to $7.6 billion, and Consumer revenue was up 8 percent to $3.3 billion. Operating income for the third quarter was $447 million, or 4.1 percent of revenue. CSG operating income was down 29 percent against a strong prior period, and foreign exchange and supply chain headwinds.

Key third quarter highlights:

• Outperformed the PC industry for total worldwide units, delivering above-market growth in desktops and notebooks and in total commercial units³
• No. 1 share position worldwide for displays, gaining unit share year-over-year for the 22^nd consecutive quarter⁴
• Maintained position as No. 1 provider of workstations worldwide⁵, with growth in every region and double-digit growth in both fixed and mobile form factors

VMware revenue for the third quarter was $2.2 billion, up 15 percent, with operating income of $768 million and 34.5 percent of revenue. The company continues to see revenue synergies through the collaboration across the Dell Technologies family of businesses. Earlier this month at VMworld Europe, Dell Technologies announced the VxBlock System 1000 as part of the Dell EMC Cloud Marketplace with new automation software and integration with VMware vRealize Suite, revolutionizing Converged Infrastructure operations by enabling administrators to expand resources in minutes versus hours. For the industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure solution VxRail, the company announced an integrated cloud platform with support for VMware Cloud Foundation and fully automated network configuration with Dell EMC Networking SmartFabric Services.

Third quarter revenue from other businesses, including Pivotal, Secureworks, RSA Security, Virtustream and Boomi, was $583 million, up 5 percent.

Conference call information

As previously announced, the company will hold a conference call to discuss its third quarter results today at 5:00 p.m. CST. The conference call will be broadcast live over the internet and can be accessed at investors.delltechnologies.com. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, an archived version will be available at the same location for one year.

A slide presentation containing additional financial and operating information may be downloaded from Dell Technologies' website at investors.delltechnologies.com.

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Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information. The company services customers of all sizes across 180 countries – ranging from 99 percent of the Fortune 500 to individual consumers – with the industry's most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from the edge to the core to the cloud.

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