With 5.6 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 9.17 million shares. During the session, the Computer Hardware company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $84.32 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $80.74. The 52-week range on DELL shows that it touched its highest point at $179.70 and its lowest point at $66.25 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $127.57. With its current market cap of 57.50 billion, DELL has annualized dividend of $1.78 while the current yield stands at 2.16%. DELL paid its most recent dividend on 1737504000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1745280000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.01.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of DELL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.56%, but this was down by -16.71% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -24.85% while six-month performance fell -34.99%. The stock lost -31.12% in the past year, while it has lost -28.51% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for DELL yields 6.22 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.37. For the next quarter, that number is 1.69. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.87% for this year and 12.86% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 11.01% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.11%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 357.00 million DELL shares are outstanding with a float of 310.05 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 15.52 million, which was 222.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Michael Saul Dell as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Ms. Yvonne McGill serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.73512 of DELL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-01-31, DELL reported revenue of $23931000000.0 and operating income of $2307000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $3114000000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.15.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for DELL since 16 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 14 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With DELL analysts setting a high price target of 170.0 and a low target of 89.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 127.06304. Based on these targets, DELL could surge 106.34% to reach the target high and rise by 8.02% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 54.22% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.69464 being high and $6.6346 being low. For DELL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.65461.
