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"We exited the year with growth across all of our segments, with particular strength in commercial client and in servers and networking. In addition, we saw demand growth up double digits for all-flash and triple digits for hyper-converged infrastructure in the fourth quarter, and we see a significant opportunity to ignite momentum in traditional storage in fiscal 2019," said Jeff Clarke, vice-chairman, Products & Operations, Dell Technologies. "With our industry leadership, innovation and laser-like focus on making our solutions easy to buy and own, we'll continue in fiscal year 2019 to deliver on the commitments we make to customers."
Operating segments summary
Client Solutions Group revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter was $10.6 billion, up 8 percent versus the fourth quarter of last year. Commercial revenue grew 9 percent to $7.3 billion and Consumer revenue was up 6 percent to $3.3 billion. Revenue for the full year was $39.5 billion. Operating income for the fourth quarter was $581 million, a 70 percent increase, and was $2.2 billion for the full year.
Key fourth quarter highlights include:
- Year-over-year worldwide PC share growth for 20th consecutive quarter2
- No. 1 share position worldwide for displays, gaining unit share year over year for the 18th consecutive quarter3
- Record holiday season sales for consumer and gaming products
- Record-high 87 product awards at the Consumer Electronics Show
Infrastructure Solutions Group revenue for the fourth quarter was $8.8 billion, a 5 percent increase. This was driven by $4.6 billion in servers and networking, a 27 percent increase, and $4.2 billion in storage. Revenue for the full year was $30.7 billion, with servers and networking revenue at $15.4 billion and storage revenue at $15.3 billion. Operating income was $748 million for the fourth quarter and $2.2 billion for the full year.
Key fourth quarter highlights:
- Third consecutive quarter of record server revenue, fueled by double-digit growth for both PowerEdge and Cloud servers
- Worldwide leader for x86 servers in calendar fourth quarter, both in units and revenue4
- No. 1 market share position in all-flash arrays4
- Demand for all-flash offerings exited fiscal 2018 at a nearly $5 billion run rate
VMware revenue for the fourth quarter was $2.3 billion, up 20 percent, with operating income of $834 million, up 48 percent, and 35.8 percent of revenue.
Fourth quarter revenue from other businesses, including Pivotal, RSA, Secureworks and Virtustream, was $492 million, up 3 percent.
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 one year.
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 as well as 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 for the first and second quarters and a portion of the third quarter in fiscal 2017, thereby impacting any year-over-year comparisons for the full year. EMC results are included for the full fourth quarter of Fiscal 2017, thereby year-over-year results are comparable for the fourth quarter.
2 IDC WW Quarterly Personal Computing Device (PCD) Tracker CY17Q4
3 DisplaySearch Desktop Monitor Market Tracker CY17Q3
4 IDC WW Quarterly Server Tracker CY17Q4
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