Dell Technologies Inc. Q4 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Dell Technologies Fiscal Year 2020 Q4 and Full-Year Earnings Summary

Overview

  • FY20 revenue reached $92.5 billion, up 1% from FY19.
  • FY20 EPS was $7.35 with operating income up 15% year-over-year.
  • Q4 revenue was $24.1 billion, up 1% from Q4 FY19.
  • Strong cash generation: full-year adjusted free cash flow was a record $8.9 billion (+31% y/y).
  • Dell announced a new $1 billion share repurchase program over 24 months.
  • FY21 is positioned as a “year of ISG,” as Client Solutions Group (CSG) growth slows and infrastructure demand is expected to recover.

Business Segment Performance

Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG)

  • FY20 revenue: $34 billion, down 7% from FY19 but up 10% from FY18.
  • Q4 ISG revenue: $8.8 billion, down 11% year-over-year.
  • Storage revenue in Q4: $4.5 billion, down 3% year-over-year; strong double-digit growth in HCI, but weakness in core storage.
  • Servers and networking revenue in Q4: $4.3 billion, down 19% due to China softness and digestion in large enterprise accounts.
  • Dell emphasized long-term share gains: 590 basis points in servers over 3 years; #1 in mainstream server revenue for 7 consecutive quarters.
  • Dell expects a return to server revenue growth in FY21 as higher-value workloads, AI/ML, and edge requirements drive demand.

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Operator: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Fiscal Year 2020 Fourth Quarter and Year-end Financial Results Conference Call for Dell Technologies, Inc. I'd like to inform all participants this call is being recorded at the request of Dell Technologies. This broadcast is the copyrighted property of Dell Technologies, Inc. Any rebroadcast of this information in whole or part without the prior written permission of Dell Technologies is prohibited. [Operator Instructions]. I'd now like to turn the call over to Rob Williams, Head of Investor Relations. Mr. Williams, you may begin. Robert Williams: Thanks, everyone, for joining us. With me today is our Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Clarke; our CFO, Tom Sweet; and our Treasurer, Tyler Johnson. During this call, unless we indicate otherwise, all references to financial measures refer to non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, operating income, net income, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted free cash flow. A reconciliation of these measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in our web deck and press release. Please also note that all growth percentages refer to year-over-year change unless otherwise specified, and that VMware historical segment results have been recast to include pivotal results. Finally, I'd like to remind you that all statements made during this call that relate to future results and events are forward-looking statement

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