Dell still looks expensive at about 20x FY28 estimated EPS, since the expected AI server guidance raise to about $75bn is already priced in; the rating stays Hold. Fiscal Q2 looks soft, with revenue estimated at $42.2bn versus a $44.5bn guidance midpoint and EPS of $4.70 versus $4.84 consensus. NVL72 shipment estimates are cut, enterprise and PC demand show early cooling, and Hon Hai is winning more SpaceX Rubin orders. Tier-2 neocloud buildouts and Vera CPU racks are positives. x.com 

Dell and HPE are priced on an AI-server story rather than their businesses. Like HP Inc., which just posted weak results on rising memory costs and thinner PC margins, they are cyclical hardware companies dependent on enterprise capex, yet their shares diverged only because of the AI-server label. Data center demand is real, but the premium has run far ahead of it. Such pricing can last long in a liquid, risk-on market, as in 1999 and 2021, so a drop is not imminent. x.com 

Dell's AI server demand looks durable enough to push the stock to new all-time highs. First-quarter revenue rose 88% to $43.8B against a $35.5B estimate, with AI server revenue of $16.1B. FY27 guidance calls for $165-169B of revenue and $60B of AI server revenue, and management said demand will last through year-end without pull-forward from the second half. Estimates should rise sharply, and 7.2% short interest adds fuel. At 27x 2027 earnings Dell is no longer cheap. x.com  x.com 

Dell looks overvalued, trading about seven turns above its historical multiple range and at a premium to many AI semiconductor bottleneck names despite not providing a bottleneck solution. Michael Dell spiking the ball on the latest quarter might mark the top. x.com 

Memory costs remain an unresolved risk for Dell even after a quarter that proved the pre-earnings bearish lean wrong. Gross margin rose to 20.9% from 17.8% and the October quarter was guided to $49.0bn, but AI server revenue grew just 1.7% while backlog jumped to $95bn, so a mix shift toward traditional servers and storage flattered margin. The $74bn full-year AI target needs about 26% sequential AI growth, so memory costs hit the October quarter on a richer AI mix, still unquantified. x.com  … Show more

Dell should easily trade above $500 after a very strong Q2 FY27 report. Revenue rose about 58% to roughly $47B, AI server backlog hit a record of about $95B, FY27 revenue guidance rose by about $25B, and management now expects AI server revenue to triple this year rather than double. That the stock sat at morning lows after such results says a lot about the current state of the AI trade. x.com  x.com 

Credo's near-total share of AI data-center cables and unchanged estimates make its lower multiple look like a fear-driven opportunity. Its stock went from 27x to 20x forward earnings while the supply chain building those systems guided 2027 revenue to double. Buyers this week will probably be very happy a year from now. x.com 

Dell is still a hardware company with low pricing power and only an 18% margin profile, which the FOMO chasers now piling in overlook. The stock may still go higher. x.com 

Dell is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the CPU shortage, gaining share in AI servers, traditional servers, storage and PCs as demand accelerates well past supply. AI server revenue rose 757% to $16.1B with a record $51.3B backlog, and traditional servers grew 92% as agentic AI needs CPUs to run the work around GPUs. Full-year revenue guidance rose about $27B to a $167B midpoint and EPS guidance to $17.90, a rare raise. Before the earnings jump it traded at only about 22x forward earnings. … Show more

Dell is heavily overearning heading into a two-sigma melt-up, leaving the stock exposed to a reversal. x.com