Company data sheet · Dell
Dell: from profit to five straight losses.
- Industry
- Electronic Computers Manufacturing
- Headquarters
- United States
- Ticker
- DELL (NYSE)
- Sources
- SEC filings (2013–2026), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to five straight losses. Dell lost money every year from fiscal 2015 to 2019: $8.7 billion in all. Fiscal 2020 was its first profit in six years: $4.6 billion.
- Seven decisions on record. Stratrix has verified seven of Dell's big decisions, each with what happened next.
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $50.9 billion | −$1.1 billion | |
| 2017 | $62.2 billion | −$1.2 billion | |
| 2018 | $79 billion | −$2.8 billion | |
| 2019 | $90.6 billion | −$2.3 billion | |
| 2020 | $84.8 billion | $4.6 billion | |
| 2021 | $86.7 billion | $3.3 billion | |
| 2022 | $101 billion | $5.6 billion | |
| 2023 | $102 billion | $2.4 billion | |
| 2024 | $88.4 billion | $3.4 billion | |
| 2025 | $95.6 billion | $4.6 billion | |
| 2026 | $114 billion | $5.9 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
Stratrix Decision Cases
- 2015Dell's $67B EMC Deal Ran on ~$46B of New Debt — and VMware Got Monetized Twice to Pay It Down
- 2013How Michael Dell Won His Buyout: A Rewritten Voting Standard and $350M More on the Table
- 2013Dell Took Itself Private to Hide the Thing It Was Already Doing.
- 2013Michael Dell Has Spent a Decade Buying One Thing Back: Control
- 2007Intel's exclusivity checks were 76% of Dell's operating income the quarter before it embraced AMD
- 1994Dell Tried Retail in 1992, Lost $36M, Fled in 1994 — and Now Sells Through Partners Again
- 1984Dell Got Paid Before It Paid Its Suppliers. The Trick Was Born of Being Broke.
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 52 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (18 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 264 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
- Methods and sources, so each number can be checked and cited.
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