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Dell Reports Tuesday, and Its Server Margin Is Where the AI Memory Bill Finally Reaches the Stock

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Dell Technologies' infrastructure solutions group reported operating income of $3.1 billion for the first quarter, a 206% increase year over year.

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Dell reports fiscal 2027 second-quarter results Tuesday, with the conference call set for 3:30 p.m. Central time. The infrastructure segment's operating margin fell from 14.8% in the fiscal fourth quarter to 10.5% in the fiscal first quarter. Management has guided to roughly 75% infrastructure growth in the second quarter, including about $15.5 billion of AI server revenue. Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) reports its fiscal 2027 second-quarter results on Tuesday, Sept. 1, with a conference call set for 3:30 p.m. Central time. One line in that report interests me more than the revenue number, the earnings number, or the size of the artificial intelligence (AI) order backlog. It's the operating margin of Dell's infrastructure solutions group, the segment that builds the servers powering the AI build-out. That's because memory prices have been climbing across the chip industry, and the companies that design AI chips have spent recent weeks describing what those costs are doing to their own margins. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue » Dell sits further down the same supply chain. It buys memory in huge volumes and assembles it into finished servers...

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Segment operating income was $3.1 billion, up 206% year over year, and the segment's operating margin of 10.5% was actually higher than the year-ago quarter's.

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