Dell benefits from its one-stop IT strategy

    Michael Dell avoids his own shareholders, as a remake of the time he had fled the Nasdaq and his analyzes described as " Short termists ". Thursday night, he left his second to present the half-year results of the company that bears his name, the first since the "IPO" December 28 last. Investors do not blame him for the results and profit prospects of the manufacturer of computers, servers and storage bays.

Friday, the share price Dell has jumped 9% at the opening in New York, without, however, completely erase its decline in previous months. The Texas-based company posted $ 45.3 billion in sales, up 2% from the first six months of its previous fiscal year. Unlike its competitor Hewlett-Packard Enterprise whose revenues plunge, Dell can congratulate itself for keeping under one roof PC and servers in its desire to be the single point of business computing.

Dell: a surprising growth in detail

While Dell has nevertheless revised down its annual revenue target, the fear of a slowdown in IT spending in the wake of a cyclical downturn in the global economy has not showered the enthusiasm of Wall Street . This one especially salutes the return to the profitability, to 1.06 billion dollars for the operating result against a loss of 166 million dollars last year. As a result, the company that refuses to release quarterly forecasts has raised its annual earnings per share target, now estimated at $ 6.95 to $ 7.40 instead of a range of between 6.05 and 6.70 dollars.

In detail, Dell's growth may surprise. Originally
of the biggest redemption in the history of tech

    when he put $ 67 billion into EMC's storage bay business in 2015, Michael Dell was counting on sales of this type of IT infrastructure to offset the decline in the personal computer market was then scanned by the smartphone. In 2019, it's the opposite.

In the wake of Windows 10

" We have tried to position the company for success in any economic environment It's nice to congratulate Tom Sweet, Dell's chief financial officer for Bloomberg reporters. Already affected by the slowdown in the global economy due
trade tensions between China and the United States,

    sales of servers and storage bays to businesses that have not yet passed
on a rental model from Amazon or Microsoft

    (cloud computing) fell 6% year-on-year to $ 16.8 billion.

These same companies have preferred to renew the computers of their employees to the benefit of device equipped with the Windows 10 operating system, while Microsoft will no longer update Windows 7 from next January. At $ 22.65 billion, PC sales jumped 6% and 12% in the single-business segment. Sign of this success in business, Google and Dell have just released two new computers equipped for the first time with a version of Google's PC operating system designed for businesses.