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Operating segments summary
Client Solutions Group (Dell) continued to take share globally while growing profitably. Dell outperformed the market worldwide, experiencing 3.7 percent unit growth during the calendar quarter2. Revenue for the second fiscal quarter was $9.9 billion, up 7 percent year over year and the highest since the same quarter of fiscal 2015. Operating income was $566 million for the quarter, a 17 percent increase or 5.7 percent of revenue.
Key highlights:
- Increased PC shipments by 3.7 percent, with 18 consecutive quarters of year-over-year PC unit share growth and the highest market share since 20062
- Strong notebook momentum and double-digit revenue growth across all high-end commercial and consumer product lines
- Ranked No. 1 workstation vendor worldwide3
- No. 1 displays provider worldwide for the 16th consecutive quarter and double-digit revenue growth4
Infrastructure Solutions Group (Dell EMC) generated $7.4 billion in revenue, up 7 percent quarter over quarter. Server and networking revenue was $3.7 billion, a quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year increase of 16 percent, and storage revenue was $3.7 billion. Operating income for the quarter was $430 million.
Key highlights:
- Continued triple-digit demand growth for hyperconverged portfolio, including VxRail, which has more than 2,000 customers and 14,000 nodes deployed to date
- Launched and shipped new 14G servers; strong overall server demand growth in each of the major regions
- Strong all-flash growth at scale, more than 2x the nearest competitor
- Double-digit demand growth in next-generation Isilon scale-out NAS with new Infinity architecture
- Strong demand for our flexible consumption and utility models, signing several large, multi-year strategic deals
VMware segment revenue for the second quarter was $1.9 billion, with operating income of $561 million, or 29.4 percent of revenue.
Additional financial highlights
The company ended the quarter with a cash and investments balance of $15.3 billion. In the second quarter, Dell Technologies paid down $1.0 billion of core debt. Additionally, subsequent to quarter-end, the company paid down the $1.5 billion bridge facility. Including these latest debt payments, the company has repaid approximately $9.5 billion of gross debt, excluding DFS-related debt, since closing the EMC transaction.
Also since closing the EMC transaction, the company has repurchased a total of 19.7 million shares of Class V common stock for $1.1 billion, under both the previously announced Class V Group and DHI Group repurchase programs. The company also has announced its board has approved an amendment to the Class V Group repurchase program for up to an additional $300 million of repurchases over six months. This will be funded from proceeds of sales of VMware Class A common stock under a new stock purchase agreement with VMware.
Conference call information
As previously announced, the company will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter performance today at 7 a.m. CDT. The conference call will be broadcast live over the internet and can be accessed at investors.delltechnologies.com. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, an archived version will be available at the same location for 30 days.
A slide presentation containing additional financial and operating information may be downloaded from Dell Technologies' website at investors.delltechnologies.com.
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1 Due to the EMC transaction and to a lesser extent the Dell going-private transaction, significant non-cash bridging items will remain between GAAP and non-GAAP results for the next few years. Prior-year historical Dell Technologies financials do not include EMC historical results, thereby impacting most year-over-year comparisons
2 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device (PCD) Tracker CY17Q2
3 IDC WW Workstation Tracker CY17Q2
4 DisplaySearch Desktop Monitor Market Tracker CY17Q1
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