Dell Technologies' fiscal year 2017 included an additional week, which is incorporated into the company's fourth quarter results.
Information about Dell Technologies' use of non-GAAP financial information is provided under "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below. All comparisons in this press release are year over year unless otherwise noted.
Operating segments summary
Client Solutions Group continued to outgrow the market worldwide for units in both commercial and consumer product categories on a calendar year basis. Revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter was $9.8 billion, up 11 percent versus the fourth quarter of last year, and revenue for the full year was $36.8 billion, up 2 percent year over fiscal year 2016. Operating income was $342 million for the quarter, and $1.8 billion for the full year.
Key calendar fourth quarter highlights include:
- PC shipments of 11 million, representing the largest volume of products shipped since the fourth quarter of 2011 1
- 8.2 percent year-over-year PC shipment increase, the best among the top seven PC vendors, with 16 consecutive quarters of year-over-year PC unit share growth and 150 basis points of unit share gained for the calendar year 1
- No. 1 share position worldwide for displays, gaining unit share year-over-year for the 16th consecutive quarter 2
Infrastructure Solutions Group generated $8.4 billion of revenue in the fourth quarter, which includes $3.6 billion in servers and networking and $4.8 billion in storage, and an operating income of $1 billion.
Key calendar fourth quarter highlights:
- Regained the No. 1 worldwide server unit share position driven by strength in the mainstream PowerEdge business 3
- No. 1 market share position in all-flash arrays4, which exited 2016 at a more than $4 billion demand run rate
- The industry's fastest growing hyperconverged infrastructure vendor during the calendar fourth quarter with more than 300 percent demand growth
VMware revenue for the fourth quarter was $1.9 billion, with operating income of $565 million, or 29.2 percent of revenue.
Conference call information
As previously announced, the company will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter and full-year 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 For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, an archived version will be available at the same location for 30 days.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.
Dell Technologies Investor Meeting
Dell Technologies will host a meeting for investors April 5, 2017, at 1:30 p.m. EDT in New York. The meeting will feature discussions from Chief Financial Officer Tom Sweet, Infrastructure Solutions Group President David Goulden, and Treasurer Tyler Johnson with a focus on the company's strategy, integration efforts and capital structure. Due to limited seating, onsite attendance is by invitation only. A live webcast and replay of the meeting will be available on the event page of Dell Technologies Investor Relations website at investors.delltechnologies.com.
Dell EMC World
Join us May 8-11, 2017 at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas, Dell Technologies' flagship event, bringing together technology and business professionals to network, share ideas and help co-create a better future. This is the first time the Dell Technologies family of brands will be all in one place, at one conference. Meet our experts and more than 12,000 IT practitioners and business leaders who are making Digital Transformation a reality. Learn more at www.dellemcworld.com and follow #DellEMCWorld on Twitter.
About Dell Technologies
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1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device (PCD) Tracker CY16Q4
2 IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker CY16Q4
3 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, March 2017
4 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, March 2017
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The press release presents information about the Company's non-GAAP net revenue, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP net income from continuing operations, EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, which are non-GAAP financial measures provided as a supplement to the results provided in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"). A reconciliation of each of the foregoing historical non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable historical GAAP financial measures is provided in the attached tables for each of the fiscal periods indicated.
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