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A 4 page paper discussing risks at Dell, including some it has navigated successfully and another it faces in the negative environment of early 2009. Dell has a strong balance sheet and significant cash reserves; the paper recommends that it borrow at current historically low interest rates to repurchase some of its stock. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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File: CC6_KSriskDell.rtf
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personal computer (PC) industry warned in the late 1990s that growth would continue until the end of 1999 and then level off to virtually flat growth for the first several
years of the new century. That is precisely what happened, as buyers rushed to purchase Y2K-ready equipment and then entered the new century with quite new computers. Dell
searched for alternative products and settled on electronics far outside its area of expertise, but never did convince overwhelming numbers of people that they should buy flat-screen TVs or other
electronic gadgets from a computer company. Dells decision to outsource all customer service to India alienated customers in droves as they were confronted by very polite but exceedingly unhelpful
"customer service" workers with heavy Indian accents. Influencing Factors Financially, Dell was the darling of the stock investor. It had six stock
splits between 1995 and 1999 and reached a high of nearly $60 immediately preceding the fallout of the tech sector in the summer of 2000 (Basic Chart, 2009). The
company always was able to count on a market capitalization until 2005 when its stock price took on a downward slope that was consistent through the summer of 2008.
When Wall Street tanked in September the decline accelerated. Today, Dells stock closed at $8.65 and the companys total market capitalization is $16.8 billion (Basic Chart, 2009).
The situation at Dell was so dire that Michael Dell came out of retirement to return to the company at the end of 2006.
In 2007 and 2008, Dell regained its position as the leading domestic supplier of PCs, shipping "5.1 million PCs during the third quarter" (Ferguson, 2008) of 2008, an increase of
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