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| Dell Computer |
Austin, Texas - May 16, 2002 -
Dell reported on their first-quarter (which ended May 3). Net earnings were
$457 million, or 17 cents per share, on revenue of $8.1 billion. Results for the
period were essentially identical to those for the first quarter one year ago.
Total storage capacity shipped by Dell during the quarter increased
nearly 70% from one year ago. External systems grew to 49% of company
storage revenue. Storage sales were up more than 20% sequentially and current
demand suggests a higher rate of growth from Q1 to Q2. The category is both
Dell's fastest growing and most profitable as a percent of revenue.
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| I/OMagic |
SANTA ANA, Calif.--Feb. 21,
2002--I/OMagic Corp. (OTCBB:IOMC - news), a leading developer and marketer of
optical storage, digital entertainment and peripheral PC products, today
announced that its optical storage business unit has grown significantly over
the past year. The company posted more than 1.5 million unit sales for this
division in 2001 -- up 260% over last year. I/OMagic will expand its
optical storage offering by soon introducing both internal and external 40x12x48
CD-RW drives -- the industry's fastest burners to date.
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| Iron Mountain |
BOSTON, May 1, 2002 - Iron
Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in records and information
management services, today reported higher revenues and Adjusted EBITDA for the
quarter ended March 31, 2002. Iron Mountain's total consolidated revenues for
the quarter ended March 31, 2002 grew to $313 million, an increase of 10 percent
compared with the quarter ended March 31, 2001. Storage revenues increased 9% to
$183 million for the first quarter of 2002 from $168 million for the same period
in 2001. This marks the 53rd consecutive quarter for which Iron Mountain has
reported increased storage revenues. Storage revenues, which are considered a
key performance indicator for the records and information management services
industry, are largely recurring since customers typically retain their records
for many years.
Net income was $13 million or $0.15 per share on a
diluted basis for the first quarter of 2002.
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Overland Data
2nd consecutive year featured in this "fastest growing"
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SAN DIEGO – April 23, 2002 –
Overland Data, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) today reported its fiscal 2002 third quarter
and nine-month year-to-date results, and also formally announced the launch of a
new software business unit by the Company. Third quarter revenues for fiscal
2002 grew 15.7% reaching $42.8 million, compared to $37.0 million in the third
quarter of fiscal 2001. Net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2002 was up
nearly 150%, hitting a record $2.1 million, or $0.18 per fully diluted share,
compared to $850,000, or $0.08 per fully diluted share in the third quarter of
fiscal 2001.
Revenues for the nine-month period ended March 31, 2002
were $128.4 million compared to revenues of $118.3 million during the same
period of the prior fiscal year. Net income for the first nine months of fiscal
2002 amounted to $5.1 million, or $0.46 per fully diluted share, compared to net
income of $4.0 million, or $0.37 per fully diluted share, for the corresponding
period in fiscal 2001.
Christopher Calisi, president and CEO of
Overland Data, said: "My goal when arriving at Overland a year ago was to
capitalize on the Company's success and broaden the scope of our business.
...Our Neo product family represents the most successful product launch in the
Company's history. Recently, Freeman Reports identified Overland as the market
leader and fastest growing mid-range tape automation vendor, citing an increase
in market share from 37% in 2000 to 57% in 2001.
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| Precise Software Solutions |
WESTWOOD, MA. – April 23,
2002 --Precise Software Solutions (Nasdaq: PRSE), a leader in optimizing
business through Application Performance Management, today reported its
financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2002. Revenues for the
first quarter of 2002 grew 49 percent to $17.1 million compared with
$11.5 million for the first quarter of 2001. The Company reported a pro forma
operating income of $672,000 or $0.02 per share, for the first quarter of 2002,
compared with a pro forma operating loss of ($726,000), or ($0.03) per share, in
the same period last year1. The Company reported a net income of $650,000 for
the first quarter of 2002, or $0.02 per share, compared with net income of
$29,000, or $0.00 per share, in the same period last year.
"Precise
had a solid first quarter 2002 in spite of the typical seasonality of the
quarter, and amidst a challenging economic climate. While we did not meet all of
our expectations, I am pleased with the overall performance of our company,"
said Shimon Alon, Chief Executive Officer of Precise Software Solutions. "We
continued to enjoy strong loyalty from our existing customers, we strengthened
our leadership position in the Application Performance Management marketplace,
and we achieved record revenues from international sales, all while increasing
our profitability."
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| Western Digital |
Apr. 25, 2002 – Western
Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today reported revenue of $595 million (16%
year on year growth - ed.) on unit shipments of approximately 8.1 million, and
net income of $15.2 million, or $.08 per share, excluding non-recurring gains,
for its third fiscal quarter ending March 29, 2002. The Company's hard drive
business generated $22.3 million of operating income in the quarter, compared
with $15.3 million in the second fiscal quarter, while new venture operating
losses were reduced to $4.3 million from $4.9 million in the second quarter.
Including non-recurring tax benefits and investment gains totaling $4.0 million,
net income and earnings per share were $19.2 million and $.10, respectively.
In the year-ago period, the Company reported revenue of $512 million
on unit shipments of approximately 5.8 million, and a net loss of $6.1 million,
or $.03 per share, excluding non-recurring items. Including non-recurring gains
from bond redemptions of $400 thousand, the year-ago net loss was $5.7 million,
or $.03 per share.
Total gross margin in the March quarter rose to 13.6 percent from 12.3
percent in the second fiscal quarter and 12.4 percent in the year ago period.
The Company achieved better than expected cost efficiencies in the quarter based
on its cost-competitive WD Protégé® 5400 RPM value line,
shipments of its WD Caviar® 7200 RPM product platform, and the successful
ramp of 40 GB-per-platter technology into volume production.
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Finding the winners in a
difficult market.
In April 2002 I published the first version of
this article. The IT recession had just started to bite, but there were still
many fast growing company reports to soft through in compiling that list. Alas,
this year the research was all to easy. With most computer companies reporting
revenue declines of between 10% to 50%, adding the double test of being
profitable was a hard test. But these are the companies which made it.
Many of you seem to find this kind of information useful, because
during the 12 months following its publication this was consistently one of
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In
compiling this list I looked at US companies and business units which had annual
revenue of at least $50 million in computer storage. The storage business unit
had to be
profitable in the reported period, and could be private or publicly
listed.
Should your company be on this list?
If you
work in marketing, and have checked that your own company's results mean you
should be on this list, then email Zsolt@STORAGEsearch.com
with the relevant info and or links on your site. Please don't send me
information which is too old. I'm only interested in results for the period
ending January to May 2002, so don't tell me how well you did before the
recession...
All the data I've used comes from press releases on the
original company's web site, or news which we have run on this site, or from
data in incoming emails. I've included the minimum amount of data required to
show that each company deserves a mention in this article.
Some
storage companies which have reported high growth rates recently haven't been
listed in here either because they declined to give us the actual numbers for
competitive reasons, or because they made a net loss, or because their revenue
fell below our threshold.
Thanks to the readers who have contributed
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Nibble May 2002:
Is the Recovery Going to be Worse for Storage Vendors than the Recession?
In
looking over the financial reports from hundreds of US storage companies in
recent weeks, I couldn't help feeling a sense of unease. Those storage companies
which are growing and making money are a rare breed.
Is the IT
Recession really over?
Well, apart from some headline basket cases,
it seems that way. There are more disk drives being shipped than ever before,
and there are plenty of companies with very high revenue growth rates. The only
problem is, that almost no one is making any money out of selling computer
systems or storage. We're reporting daily on new rounds of VC investments going
into storage companies, so that's another sign that the market is on an upward
curve. I worry that we could be heading into a kind of doomsday scenario where
demand for storage grows, and the amount spent on storage increases but still
no one manages to make any profit.
Organizations do crazy things sometimes. In World War I, after years
of trench warfare produced no gain in territory, the allies made the cynical
calculation that if they continued to pour men into bloody battle at the same
rate as the Germans, they would still win the war, simply because they could
afford to lose more men.
There are more companies than ever fighting
for market share in every product category. That's good for buyers because they
can shop around for bargain products which exactly suit their needs. Most
startup storage companies are finding that the new, unique product ideas which
they thought up two to three years ago when writing their business plans, were
also thought of by maybe a dozen or so other companies. And some of those other
startups have already been acquired by bigger more established vendors. So the
clock to gain market share is ticking.
The lesson of Dell can't be
ignored. You can gain market share and be profitable by being the low cost
supplier. But most companies haven't got the time to reach profitability, or
become the most efficient producer, and will be tempted to use learning curve
pricing on its own to crank up their revenue. That will only work as long as
their cash keeps flowing.
As the size of the storage market increases,
and the prize of winning market share becomes more tempting, there's a growing
risk that companies will do crazy things equivalent to sending more troops over
the top in WWI. It wasn't worth it then, and it's not worth it now. Managers in
storage companies should look hard at what they're doing and start focusing more
on profitability than revenue. Otherwise their companies won't have a future. | |
