With that said, the consensus on the Street for Dell's latest quarterly performance is pegged at $0.31 EPS, as some analysts have taken higher estimates down in the face of some signs from the computer maker recently.
Yes, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins was ousted just about a month ago and company founder Michael Dell has returned as CEO. Not only that, but Dell has gone on a hiring rampage and has hired some well-known executives from outside the industry (like Solectron's Mike Cannon and Motorola's Ron Garriques) to help bring fresh thinking into the company as well as help turn around this laggard ship of sort.
The big question I have here -- which I will delve into in another post -- is if Dell will re-examine its current business model and actually try to re-enter the retail store market for goose PC sales. Dell was in retail way back in the early 90s in an experiment, but left that sector and had not been back. Will it come back to retailers like Best Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA? Stay tuned for that one.Until then, be sure and stay tuned to BloggingStock's Dell blog tomorrow at 5 p.m. EST for the liveblog of Dell's Q4 financial results. Maybe the company will drop a hint or two about its future plans. Will Dell meet, beat or fall short of analyst expectations tomorrow? Vote now.
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