What is Dell Technologies's return on equity?

Dell Technologies (DELL) reported return on equity of 138% in Q3 2021.

What does return on equity mean?

How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.

How do you interpret return on equity?

Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.

How does return on equity compare across companies?

Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.

Dell Technologies DELL Return on equity

Discontinued — last reported Q3 '22

Return on equity at other companies

International Business MachinesIBM

35.9%+14.1pp

NetAppNTAP

106.7%-1.8pp

AmazonAMZN

21.1%-4.1pp

Super Micro Computer, Inc.SMCI

17.9%-2.2pp

Hewlett Packard EnterpriseHPE

6.3%-0.1pp

CelesticaCLS

52.5%+26.6pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$43.8B+87.5%

Gross profit$7.8B+57.6%

Operating income$3.7B+214%

Net income$3.4B+256%

EPS (diluted)$5.24+282%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$11.6B+50.4%

Total debt$31.9B+7.9%

Total equity-$1.4B+53.6%

Total assets$114.91B+32.3%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$4.1B+46.0%

CapEx$963.0M+69.5%

Free cash flow$3.1B+40.0%

Valuation

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Market cap$271.76B+106%

Enterprise value$292.09B+78.0%

P/E32.3×+3.4×

P/S2×+0.7×

Profitability

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Gross margin19.1%-3.0pp

Operating margin7.9%+1.3pp

Net margin6.3%+1.6pp

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity5.6×—

Current ratio0.9×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Dell Technologies’s reported figures.

net income/total stockholders equity=138%

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Dell Technologies’s 10-Q, filed December 3, 2021, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Dell Technologies's return on equity?: Dell Technologies (DELL) reported return on equity of 138% in Q3 2021.
What does return on equity mean?: How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?: Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?: Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.