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Updated · CNBC · Sep 11
Dell Jumps 10% After RBC Starts Coverage With $640 Target
Updated
Updated · CNBC · Sep 11

Dell Jumps 10% After RBC Starts Coverage With $640 Target

3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Sep 11

Summary

  • Dell shares climbed 10% Friday after RBC Capital Markets initiated coverage with an outperform rating and a $640 price target.
  • RBC tied the call to AI infrastructure demand, saying Dell is well placed for a multi-year spending cycle as a leading vendor of Nvidia-based servers and related equipment.
  • Dell has a $95 billion server backlog yet to be filled and sold about $16.4 billion of AI servers in its second quarter, while storage revenue rose 26% on AI-driven demand.
  • Earlier this month, Dell beat second-quarter estimates and raised its full-year sales forecast to $192 billion, helped by higher pricing and its early shipments of Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVL72 racks.
  • The rally adds to a 2026 surge of more than fourfold, underscoring how the longtime PC maker has been recast as a key one-stop supplier for enterprise and cloud AI buildouts.

Insights

With a $95 billion backlog, can Dell maintain its AI infrastructure dominance against aggressive rivals like Super Micro and Quanta?
Will Dell's strategic sovereign AI partnership with Palantir become its ultimate competitive moat in the global technology race?
As AI demands massive liquid cooling, how will Dell's rack-scale hardware deployments impact global data center energy consumption?