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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $102.14 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $70M 0% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $33M EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The sequential peak is already printed and the margin never comes back. Dell's own Q2 AI-server guide of $15.5B is below the $16.1B just delivered, and the roughly $60B full-year guide implies about $14.2B a quarter in the second half. The 10-Q commits to component-cost inflation persisting all year, and gross margin has already fallen 330bp to 17.8%. Here the backlog converts on schedule but at prices that never recover the memory bill, AI-server revenue flattens as the book drains, and Dell ends the horizon a much larger business on a much lower multiple.

Corporate and other

Basis quarter$224M
Final quarter$70M
Implied CAGR−21%
Final revenue mix0%

A runoff line, not a business: VMware resale plus divested and non-reportable offerings that Dell no longer actively sells. It has declined in every single quarter of the disclosed history, from $1,050M to $224M in nine quarters, and it is carried here only so the vertical total reconciles exactly to reported consolidated revenue.

Last four quarters
2026 Q2 $473M Reported
2026 Q3 $420M Reported
2026 Q4 $283M Reported
2027 Q1 $224M Reported
VMware resaleDivested and non-reportable offerings (Secureworks and Virtustream legacy)
Sequential growth −8.0%/qtr decaying toward −3.0% Nine consecutive quarters of decline averaging about 18% sequentially; -8% is a deliberately gentle runoff.
Corporate and other

Latest: $70M (2032Q1E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $1.05B
2025Q2 $966M
2025Q3 $867M
2025Q4 $698M
2026Q1 $552M
2026Q2 $473M
2026Q3 $420M
2026Q4 $283M
2027Q1 $224M
2027Q2E $205M
2027Q3E $188M
2027Q4E $174M
2028Q1E $162M
2028Q2E $151M
2028Q3E $142M
2028Q4E $134M
2029Q1E $126M
2029Q2E $119M
2029Q3E $113M
2029Q4E $107M
2030Q1E $102M
2030Q2E $97M
2030Q3E $92M
2030Q4E $88M
2031Q1E $84M
2031Q2E $80M
2031Q3E $76M
2031Q4E $73M
2032Q1E $70M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Its only job in this model is reconciliation: reportable segment revenue of $43,618M plus $224M equals the $43,842M consolidated revenue Dell reported. Drop it and the six lines no longer tie to the income statement.
  • Corporate and other operating income was $10M on $224M of revenue in the basis quarter, so the line is close to margin-neutral and far too small for its margin assumption to change any answer on this page.
  • The runoff is modelled at 8% sequential decline against an actual nine-quarter average of roughly 18%. That is deliberately gentle: driving the line to zero inside the horizon would flatter consolidated growth rather than describe it.
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