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Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stock bull who wrote (132803)	6/15/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

It is too simplistic to say that DELL's revenue growth rate was 50%! Look at the actual Q2 revenue and earnings growth rates for the last 3 years are given below: Yr Rev YoY growth Earnings YOY earnings 1997 1690 0.402489627 103 0.584615385 1998 2814 0.665088757 214 1.077669903 1999 4331 0.539090263 346 0.61682243 Notice that in 1997 DELL's revenue growth rate was 40.2 %. In 1998 it was 66.5 %. Then last year the revenue growth rate was 54%. So the revenue growth rate jumps all over the place. There is not much of a pattern here other than the growth rate is around 50%. The same is true for the earnings growth of the company. They jump around and they are very high rates of growth. I doubt if you can still get last years forecasts off the Zack's site. I have a Prudential report that has all this in it which I had to pay for. Just do a Yahoo on Zacks or go to PCQoute and click on earnings. I for one was hoping that DELL would surprise last quarter by maintaining 50%. A lot of the shareholders were hoping that DELL would put its numbers back up on the board. No such luck! But the analysts were expecting lower growth rates. The analysts had better modeling on the growth rates because they get their guidance directly from the company. Is your alias a misnomer?