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Dell revenues stagnated

The results of the U.S. technology company Dell's third quarter missed analysts' expectations. In addition, management warned that the planned annual targets may not be achieved due to a shortage of hard disks. For the third quarter, Dell realized revenue of 15.36 billion USD, or , which coincides with what was achieved during the same period last year. Profits do amount to 893 million USD, or , or 49 cents per share for 822 million USD, or 42 cents per share a year ago. With the exclusion of certain one-off effects of the Dell profit was 54 cents a share, above analysts' expectations for 47 cents a share. Revenue projections were for 15.65 billion dollars. The unclear economic situation and the shortage of hard drives, which is a problem throughout the industry, driving the company's management expects results for fiscal 2012 to be in the lower range of the underlying estimates. This means that the expected revenue growth of between 1 and 5 per cent. Currently a major concern in the technology sector are floods in Thailand. Because these key manufacturers of hard drives have stopped production, which threatens the presentation of numerous companies. The Dell's revenue from sales of PCs fell by 6 percent to 3.4 billion USD, or . With so fell and sales to private customers. In public customers has decreased by 2 percent annually to 4.2 billion USD, or .
In recent years, Dell's market share is shrinking, the company has already lost second place among the largest computer manufacturers. It was occupied by Lenovo, a leader in ranking remains HP.