Overview
- Michael Dell posted a copy of Dell Computer Corporation’s earnings statement on X on Friday, July 31, 2026, saying the one page convinced his parents he should not return to college.
- The quarter ending July 31, 1984 shows total revenue of $888,821 and a gross profit of $198,367 for the fledgling dorm-room business.
- The paper records a reported net income of $134,762.75 for that quarter, a sum Tom’s Hardware and others note was earned after starting the company with about $1,000.
- Dell Technologies has since grown into a multibillion-dollar firm that supplies servers and infrastructure for large AI deployments and has a market value reported at roughly $262 billion.
- Coverage notes the company’s past regulatory and product troubles — a 2005 SEC accounting inquiry, a 2007 battery recall and lawsuit, and a 2015 security flaw — alongside ongoing new product releases and renewed public interest in Dell’s origin story.