Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from Brokerages

Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) has been given a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by the thirty-two research firms that are presently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, ten have assigned a hold recommendation, twenty have issued a buy recommendation and one has given a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price objective among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $496.7143.

A number of brokerages have weighed in on DELL. Wall Street Zen raised Dell Technologies from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, May 30th. Loop Capital increased their price objective on Dell Technologies from $150.00 to $550.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, May 29th. Bank of America raised their price objective on Dell Technologies from $280.00 to $500.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, May 29th. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their target price on Dell Technologies from $230.00 to $500.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, June 1st. Finally, UBS Group set a $700.00 price target on Dell Technologies in a report on Friday, May 29th.

Dell Technologies Stock Up 1.7%

Shares of DELL opened at $441.98 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $286.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.11, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.92 and a beta of 1.33. The company’s fifty day moving average is $428.31 and its 200-day moving average is $284.54. Dell Technologies has a 12 month low of $110.22 and a 12 month high of $514.00.

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 28th. The technology company reported $4.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.96 by $1.90. The business had revenue of $43.84 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $35.74 billion. Dell Technologies had a net margin of 6.28% and a negative return on equity of 366.90%. Dell Technologies’s quarterly revenue was up 87.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.55 EPS. Dell Technologies has set its FY 2027 guidance at 17.900-17.900 EPS and its Q2 2027 guidance at 4.800-4.800 EPS. As a group, research analysts predict that Dell Technologies will post 18.17 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Dell Technologies Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 31st. Investors of record on Tuesday, July 21st were issued a dividend of $0.63 per share. This represents a $2.52 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.6%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, July 21st. Dell Technologies’s dividend payout ratio is currently 20.02%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Dell Technologies news, Director Spv-2 L.P. Sl sold 175,901 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $457.99, for a total transaction of $80,560,898.99. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 36,659 shares in the company, valued at $16,789,455.41. This represents a 82.75% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Silver Lake Partners Iv, L.P. sold 189,805 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $457.99, for a total value of $86,928,791.95. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 24,287 shares in the company, valued at approximately $11,123,203.13. This represents a 88.66% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 3,434,758 shares of company stock worth $1,448,870,683 over the last quarter. 41.50% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Institutional Trading of Dell Technologies

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Saudi Central Bank grew its holdings in Dell Technologies by 80.1% in the 2nd quarter. Saudi Central Bank now owns 21,086 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $9,098,000 after buying an additional 9,377 shares during the last quarter. Angeles Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Dell Technologies during the second quarter worth approximately $546,000. Compass Financial Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Dell Technologies in the second quarter valued at approximately $1,855,000. AlphaGrep UK Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Dell Technologies in the second quarter valued at approximately $887,000. Finally, Markowski Investments acquired a new stake in shares of Dell Technologies in the second quarter worth $209,000. Institutional investors own 76.37% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Dell Technologies

Here are the key news stories impacting Dell Technologies this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Analyst coverage highlights Dell as a potential beneficiary of accelerating AI data-center investment beyond GPUs, including demand for servers, networking, storage, optics, power and cooling. The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights Dell, Celestica, Lumentum and Vertiv
• Positive Sentiment: Dell is targeting AI-storage growth with an ObjectScale system offering up to 9.83 petabytes in a 2U configuration, potentially strengthening its position in enterprise AI infrastructure. Dell Targets AI Storage Growth With 9.83PB ObjectScale System
• Positive Sentiment: A memorandum of understanding with Emarat is intended to accelerate AI adoption and digital transformation, creating potential long-term enterprise demand for Dell’s technology and services. Emarat, Dell Technologies collaborate to accelerate AI-enabled transformation
• Positive Sentiment: Renewing Dell’s Team Liquid partnership could support Alienware’s gaming brand as it competes with HP and Corsair in premium PCs and peripherals. Can Team Liquid Partnership Strengthen DELL Against HPQ and CRSR?
• Neutral Sentiment: A covered-call strategy is being promoted as a way to generate substantial income from DELL shares, but it caps upside if the stock rises above the option strike and is not a change to Dell’s fundamentals. Own DELL Stock? Here Is How To Collect 21% a Year On It
• Negative Sentiment: An analyst downgraded Dell ahead of its second-quarter earnings preview, indicating concern that high expectations or valuation may limit further gains. I’m Downgrading Dell Ahead Of Q2 Earnings
• Negative Sentiment: Dell recently fell sharply even as the broader market advanced, highlighting elevated volatility and profit-taking risk after a major rally. Dell Technologies Stock Slides as Market Rises

About Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies Inc is a multinational technology company that designs, manufactures and sells a broad range of information technology products, solutions and services. Its offerings span client computing devices (consumer and commercial laptops and desktops), enterprise infrastructure (servers, storage systems and networking equipment), software and cloud infrastructure, and a variety of professional services such as IT consulting, deployment, managed services and financing solutions. The company serves organizations of all sizes as well as individual consumers, with products and services aimed at enabling digital transformation and modern IT environments.

Founded by Michael Dell in 1984, the company grew from a direct-to-consumer PC business into a diversified IT provider through organic expansion and strategic acquisitions.