CSM Advisors LLC Sells 79,955 Shares of Dell Technologies Inc. $DELL

CSM Advisors LLC decreased its stake in Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) by 69.2% during the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 35,626 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 79,955 shares during the period. CSM Advisors LLC’s holdings in Dell Technologies were worth $5,049,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Phoenix Financial Ltd. lifted its position in Dell Technologies by 95.3% in the 3rd quarter. Phoenix Financial Ltd. now owns 33,792 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $4,923,000 after buying an additional 16,488 shares during the last quarter. Stonegate Investment Group LLC grew its position in Dell Technologies by 24,493.8% during the third quarter. Stonegate Investment Group LLC now owns 411,946 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $58,402,000 after acquiring an additional 410,271 shares during the last quarter. Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI raised its stake in shares of Dell Technologies by 637.3% during the third quarter. Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI now owns 19,333 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $2,741,000 after acquiring an additional 16,711 shares in the last quarter. Providence Capital Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of Dell Technologies in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $7,060,000. Finally, Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC boosted its stake in shares of Dell Technologies by 4.9% in the 3rd quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC now owns 273,850 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $40,990,000 after purchasing an additional 12,695 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 76.37% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at Dell Technologies

In related news, Director Ellen Jamison Kullman sold 150,346 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $145.13, for a total value of $21,819,714.98. Following the sale, the director owned 65,662 shares in the company, valued at $9,529,526.06. This represents a 69.60% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director V (Gp) L.L.C. Slta sold 4,417 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $146.75, for a total value of $648,194.75. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold a total of 1,174,964 shares of company stock valued at $173,923,497 in the last ninety days. 42.00% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Key Dell Technologies News

Here are the key news stories impacting Dell Technologies this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Strong AI-driven revenue momentum: analysts and coverage point to a multibillion-dollar AI/server backlog and a recent quarter that beat EPS and revenue expectations, underscoring durable demand for servers and infrastructure. What’s Behind The 60% Rally In Dell Stock?
• Positive Sentiment: Higher-margin storage opportunity: market writeups highlight Dell’s positioning to capture a profitable “storage attach” market tied to AI deployments, which could lift gross margins if adoption accelerates. Dell Technologies (DELL) Prepared for High-Margin Storage Attach Opportunity
• Positive Sentiment: Shareholder-friendly move: management raised the quarterly dividend ~20%, signaling confidence in cash flow and supporting yield-sensitive buyers. As Dell Technologies Raises Its Dividend 20%, Should You Buy DELL Stock?
• Neutral Sentiment: Surging component demand — opportunity vs. cost: Dell execs say AI has created “almost infinite demand” for memory components, which supports order visibility but creates cost/availability uncertainty. AI has created ‘almost infinite demand’ for memory components, Dell execs say
• Neutral Sentiment: Long-term infrastructure play: partnership/briefings with the U.S. Department of Energy on national AI infrastructure raise Dell’s strategic profile, a longer-horizon positive but not an immediate earnings driver. Dell and DOE Partner on Building AI Infrastructure
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling: recent filings show material insider sales (including a ~10,200-share sale by Jennifer Saavedra and larger director-level sales reported elsewhere), which can weigh on sentiment and add supply pressure. Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) Insider Sells $1,479,000.00 in Stock Ellen Jamison Kullman Sells 150,346 Shares
• Negative Sentiment: Margin risk from rising component costs and workforce shifts: articles note headcount cutbacks in Texas despite revenue growth and highlight memory/DRAM cost pressure that could compress hardware margins even as top line expands. Dell’s Texas headcount shrinks even as revenue surges Margin concerns discussed in Forbes

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts recently commented on the stock. Evercore reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $160.00 target price on shares of Dell Technologies in a report on Thursday, February 19th. Citic Securities upped their price target on shares of Dell Technologies from $150.00 to $160.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, November 28th. Barclays lifted their price objective on Dell Technologies from $148.00 to $168.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, February 27th. Raymond James Financial boosted their target price on Dell Technologies from $166.00 to $182.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, February 27th. Finally, Daiwa Securities Group raised their price target on Dell Technologies from $150.00 to $170.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, March 6th. Sixteen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $163.28.

Dell Technologies Stock Performance

NYSE DELL opened at $151.66 on Monday. The stock has a market cap of $100.50 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.39, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.71 and a beta of 0.97. Dell Technologies Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $66.25 and a fifty-two week high of $168.08. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $125.21 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $132.89.

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 26th. The technology company reported $3.89 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.53 by $0.36. Dell Technologies had a net margin of 5.23% and a negative return on equity of 236.90%. The company had revenue of $33.38 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $31.60 billion. During the same period last year, the business earned $2.68 EPS. Dell Technologies’s quarterly revenue was up 39.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Dell Technologies has set its Q1 2027 guidance at 2.900-2.900 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 12.900-12.900 EPS. Sell-side analysts predict that Dell Technologies Inc. will post 6.93 earnings per share for the current year.

Dell Technologies Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 1st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 21st will be issued a dividend of $0.63 per share. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, April 21st. This is a positive change from Dell Technologies’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.53. This represents a $2.52 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.7%. Dell Technologies’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 28.90%.

About Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies Inc is a multinational technology company that designs, manufactures and sells a broad range of information technology products, solutions and services. Its offerings span client computing devices (consumer and commercial laptops and desktops), enterprise infrastructure (servers, storage systems and networking equipment), software and cloud infrastructure, and a variety of professional services such as IT consulting, deployment, managed services and financing solutions. The company serves organizations of all sizes as well as individual consumers, with products and services aimed at enabling digital transformation and modern IT environments.

Founded by Michael Dell in 1984, the company grew from a direct-to-consumer PC business into a diversified IT provider through organic expansion and strategic acquisitions.