CHICAGO, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces
the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the
Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events
impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently
featured in the blog include: Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL),
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), Apple Inc. (Nasdaq:
AAPL), International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT).
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Here are highlights from Wednesday's Analyst Blog:
Dell Building Out R&D
Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) announced a new state-of-the-art
research and development (R&D) facility. The world's third
largest PC maker has now announced an R&D center in the Silicon
Valley that will make this possible.
The new R&D center will house more than 1,500 people over
the next five years and help Dell consolidate four existing
operating units in Northern
California in phases. All the operating units in that region
were acquired by Dell over the last four years. The acquired
companies are Zing Systems Inc., currently in Sunnyvale; Ocarina Networks in San Jose; Scalent Systems Inc. in Palo Alto; and Everdream Corp. in Fremont.
Dell expects the center to be operational in the back half of
this year, with around 700 employees.
Dell plans to make more strategic acquisitions and hire new
people in different departments. The activities will allow the tech
giant to expand the capabilities in the existing product portfolio
to better serve its huge client base.
In March, Dell opened its first R&D center in Israel to focus on developing storage
technologies and cloud computing solutions, which will be embedded
in its products worldwide. The R&D center leveraged all the
assets of Exanet Ltd., an Israeli storage company that Dell
acquired last year.
Apart from this, Dell is also investing in high growth countries
such as Brazil, Russia, India
and China, and recently announced
its plan to expand in India. We
remain confident about Dell's expansion strategy.
Moreover, we are encouraged by Dell's attempt to shift its focus
from PC and server roots to becoming a data-center vendor with a
wider scope. However, concerns include soft demand from the
Consumer segment, a high debt level and stiff competition from
technology majors, such as Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ),
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), International Business
Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:
MSFT).
Currently, Dell has a Zacks #1 Rank, which equates to a
short-term Strong Buy recommendation.
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