Dell Technologies Inc.

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Dell Technologies looks about 58% undervalued against its cash-flow value. Its growth outlook scores strong; the balance sheet is solid.

$442.08 +1.89% today as of 23 Aug, 5:36 AM

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At a glance

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72 overall score Fair value +58% undervalued vs estimate Health 11/18 checks pass Price · one year +249.7% Growth 6.9%/yr revenue trend Dividend 0.57% yield P / E 902.2 price / earnings

Otto's verdict

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Value Looks ~58% undervalued against Otto's cash-flow estimate.
Health 11 of 18 health checks pass.
Growth Revenue trend ≈ +7%/yr (extended trend, not a forecast).
Street Analysts lean buy · avg target +15% from here.
Dividend Pays a dividend — yields 0.57%.
Insiders Insiders, last 12 months: 0 buys · 4 sells.

Not investment advice — Otto just crunches numbers.

Price trend

+249.7% over one year · S&P 500 +20.5%

2025-08-21 · $126.43 2026-08-21 · $442.08

What Whose view think

The market's move: +249.7% over the past year

52-wk low $110.22 high $514.00

Trading 82% up its 52-week range. Price is the market's live vote — not advice.

The snowflake

checks passed on each axis

Value 2/3 checks
Future 2/2 checks
Past 2/2 checks
Health 3/5 checks
Dividend 2/6 checks

What does this show?

Five quick health scores — Value, Future, Past, Health and Dividend — each 0–100%. A bigger, more even shape means a stock that scores well across the board; a spiky one is strong on some axes and weak on others.

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Fair value

our estimate · not analyst forecast

58% below our estimate — you'd be paying less than our numbers say it's worth.

$442.08 price today $697.30 fair value

How we got there

A 2-stage discounted-cash-flow on free cash flow: grow it at the capped historical trend for five years, fade to a 2.5% long-run rate, discount everything at 9.0%. It's a transparent estimate from past numbers, not a licensed forecast — treat it as one lens, not truth.

What does this show?

Our estimate of what one share is worth based on the cash the business is expected to generate (a discounted-cash-flow model), next to today's price. Below fair value hints undervalued, above hints expensive — it's an estimate, not a guarantee.

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Health checks

18 checks run on free data

⚠ Debt/equity falling over time long-term debt/equity 1325.7% vs 325.2%
⚠ No dividend cut in recent years a cut shows in the record
⚠ Payout ratio under 75% payout 439.2% of earnings
⚠ P/E below peer average P/E 902.2 vs peers 24.5
⚠ Short-term assets cover short-term bills 57.6B vs 63.3B
⚠ Yield beats the market yield 0.57% vs market ~1.5%

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Value 2/3 passed

✓ Trading below our fair-value estimate +58% vs our DCF estimate
– P/B below industry industry P/B not on the free feed
– P/E below industry industry P/E not on the free feed
⚠ P/E below peer average P/E 902.2 vs peers 24.5
– P/S sane vs its own history needs multi-year P/S (Tier B)
✓ More than 20% below fair value +58% margin of safety

Future 2/2 passed

✓ Earnings trending up latest above earliest
– Growth beats the industry industry growth not on the free feed
– Earnings growth beats the market
✓ Revenue trending up 6.9%/yr over 9yr
– Return on equity improving n/a

Past 2/2 passed

✓ Earnings grew over the period -1.2B → 5.9B
– High-quality earnings (few one-offs) one-off detection deferred — needs statement detail
– Growth accelerating vs its average n/a (loss years)
✓ Revenue higher than five years ago 62.2B → 113.5B
– Return on equity above 20%

Health 3/5 passed

⚠ Debt/equity falling over time long-term debt/equity 1325.7% vs 325.2%
– Debt is under 40% of equity
✓ Debt well covered by cash flow operating cash flow covers 36.0% of debt
✓ Interest comfortably covered by profit EBIT covers interest 5.2×
✓ Short-term assets cover long-term debt 57.6B vs 40.5B
⚠ Short-term assets cover short-term bills 57.6B vs 63.3B

Dividend 2/6 passed

✓ Dividend covered by earnings and cash flow covered by both earnings and free cash flow
✓ Dividend growing over time over 10yr on record
⚠ No dividend cut in recent years a cut shows in the record
⚠ Payout ratio under 75% payout 439.2% of earnings
⚠ Yield beats the market yield 0.57% vs market ~1.5%
⚠ Yield in the top quartile of payers yield 0.57% vs 2.68% cut among the 67 payers Otto tracks

What does this show?

Pass/fail rules on the company's finances — debt levels, profitability, cash cover and so on. More greens means a sturdier balance sheet; an n/a just means we didn't have that data point.

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Past performance

10-yr history from SEC EDGAR filings

Revenue

2017 · 62.2B 2026 · 113.5B

Earnings

2017 · -1.2B 2026 · 5.9B

Free cash flow

2017 · 1.7B 2026 · 8.6B

dashed line = what it'd look like growing at our ~9% market-average benchmark, for comparison

What does this show?

How revenue, earnings and free cash flow have grown over the years. Bars rising left-to-right show a growing business; the dashed line is a market-average pace for comparison.

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Revenue & expenses

FY 2026

What does this show?

How a company turns sales into profit. Revenue splits into the direct cost of sales and the gross profit left over; from that gross profit come operating costs (R&D, SG&A), tax and interest — what survives is net income. Every figure is also shown as a share of revenue, so you can compare periods and companies of different sizes.

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Future

trend, not analyst forecast

Revenue · extended at 6.9%/yr

2017 · 62.2B 2029 · 138.8B projected

Dashed bars just extend the historical trend (capped at ±15%/yr) — the same growth our DCF uses. It's arithmetic on the past, not an analyst forecast; real futures bend.

What does this show?

Solid bars are history; dashed bars simply extend the past growth trend a few years forward — capped so it stays sane. It's a trend line, not an analyst forecast.

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Dividend

from cash actually paid, not promises

0.57% current yield · market ~1.5%

4 yrs without a cut, on record

Flat or cut over the saved record

paying out 24.6% of earnings 75% comfort line

Total dividends paid · split-proof, unlike per-share history

2019 · 2.1B 2026 · 1.5B

What does this show?

The share of profit paid back to shareholders as cash. Yield is that cash as a % of the price; the payout gauge shows how much of earnings is paid out (over ~75% can be hard to sustain).

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Ownership & insiders

from SEC Form 4 filings

0 open-market buys · 4 sales in the last 10 saved filings

Exercise Radakovich Lynn Vojvodich · Director 2,022 sh · $62,965 2026-07-22
Sell Radakovich Lynn Vojvodich · Director 2,022 sh · $836,643 2026-07-22
Other Slta V (Gp), L.L.C. · Director 201,173 sh 2026-07-10
Other Slta Iv (Gp), L.L.C. · Director 201,173 sh 2026-07-10
Exercise Silver Lake Technology Investors Iv, L.P. · Director 1,332 sh 2026-07-09
Sell Silver Lake Technology Investors Iv, L.P. · Director 1,332 sh · $604,114 2026-07-09
Exercise Silver Lake Partners V De (Aiv), L.P. · Director 48,990 sh 2026-07-09
Sell Silver Lake Partners V De (Aiv), L.P. · Director 34,869 sh · $15.81M 2026-07-09
Exercise Sl Spv-2, L.P. · Director 88,164 sh 2026-07-09
Sell Sl Spv-2, L.P. · Director 59,492 sh · $26.98M 2026-07-09

Insiders must report within two business days. Sales are often pre-planned (10b5-1) rather than a signal — buys tend to say more.

What does this show?

Buys and sells by the company's own directors and officers, from their SEC filings. Insiders sell for many reasons, but clusters of open-market buying can signal confidence.

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Competitors

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HPQ HP Inc. $29.71 +1.4%

MSFT Microsoft Corporation $483.24 +0.4%

AAPL Apple Inc. $309.35 -0.9%

STX Seagate Technology Holdings PLC $910.34 +1.4% same industry

What does this show?

A few peers in the same business, each with its own mini snowflake, so you can see how this company stacks up rather than judging it in isolation. Anyone signed in can add a missing competitor — it shows for everyone, marked as user-added.

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