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Dell’s earnings are in and I know that while the media keeps telling me how bad off we all are, seems as though people spent their money on something other than $4 a gallon gas. I suggest you take time to digest the whole page if this is of interest to you. Some good points towards the bottom.



We announced Q2 results today. Revenue was up 11% to $16.4 billion on 19% unit growth. EPS were down 6% to $0.31 per share and cash from operations was $1.1 billion and $3.4 billion on a trailing four quarters basis. We strongly encourage investors to read the full press release and earnings presentation; and listen to a replay of our conference call that can be found on the investor relations web site after the earnings call.



This quarter we enhanced our competitiveness by introducing a more robust enterprise solutions portfolio, a new commercial notebook line and expanding our product portfolio in consumer, including our new Studio brand of desktops and notebooks. Again this quarter we saw share gains in all major product categories and regions including rapid growth in BRIC and emerging countries. Global Consumer revenues grew 28% on unit growth of 58%, and BRIC revenues were up 46% on unit growth of 41%.



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