Our Q1 earnings are out if you are interested… Some of the highlights if you missed them:
- Overall, we increased revenue to $16 billion, up 9 percent year-over-year.
- We announced the best earnings per share (EPS) in 9 quarters, a 12 percent increase.
- Our operating expense (OpEx) is the lowest that we’ve seen in a long time at 12.9 percent of revenue.
- We are the only large server vendor to grow volume and share – grew 3x industry.
- Our revenue outside the U.S. surpassed inside the U.S. for the first time in Dell history!
- Global Consumer was profitable and revenue up 20 percent year-over-year. Units grew 47 percent year-over-year.
- Emerging Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) grew 58 percent and was 9 percent of our company revenue.
- EqualLogic revenue grew more than 100% year-over-year.
- Partner Direct is live in all regions – nearly 16K partners and approximately 300 new partners every week.
- Notebooks were our fastest growing product category, increasing sharply at 43 percent and 1.2 times the industry. Revenue grew 22 percent year-over-year. Just wait until our customers see the new e-Family series we’ll launch in a few months.