Stocks to Watch: Dell, Tesla, Toll
NEW YORK -- Dell's (DELL) fourth-quarter earnings and revenue topped Wall Street estimates.
The PC maker reported fourth-quarter non-GAAP earnings of 40 cents a share on $14.3 billion in revenue, down 11% year over year, but up 4% over the previous quarter. The company noted that networking was strong, with revenue from the segment growing 42%.
Analysts were looking for earnings of 39 cents a share on revenue of $14.1 billion.
Citing the announcement to take the company private, Dell is not providing an outlook for its fiscal 2014 or the first quarter.
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Tesla Motors(TSLA) is expected by analysts Wednesday to report a fourth-quarter loss of 53 cents a share on revenue of $298.9 million.
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TheStreet will be live-blogging Tesla's results Wednesday afternoon.
Homebuilder Toll Brothers(TOL) posted fiscal first-quarter profit and revenue below analysts' expectations.
Toll earned 3 cents a share in the quarter, reversing a year-earlier loss, on revenue of $424.6 million. Analysts were looking for profit of 11 cents a share on revenue of $500.6 million.
Toll said Wednesday that backlog at Jan. 31 was $1.86 billion, up 66% from a year earlier.
Engineers at Boeing(BA) accepted a new four-year contract while technical workers rejected their offer and voted to authorize a future strike.
The union representing both groups had recommended rejection of the contract because it wouldn't provide pensions to new employees, but a 401k retirement plan instead, The Associated Press reported.