| Title: | The Digital way of working |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL ON |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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An article in Business Week of 18th January 1993 estimates the value of IBM's
businesses as follows:
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Business Line Estimated Value
$ Billions
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Mainframes 2.9
Minicomputers 1.3
Workstations 3.3
Personal Computers 6.8
Storage Products 3.3
Printers 0.5
Software 13.8
Services 27.0
Other Businesses 2.3
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GROSS VALUE 61.2
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TOTAL IBM
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Gross Value 61.2
Estimated Future Charges -9.8
(after taxes)
Long-term debt and
Other Liabilities -12.8
(net of working capital)
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ESTIMATED NET VALUE 38.6
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Estimated Net Value Per Share $67
Recent Stock Price $48 7/8
Book Value Per Share ** $54
** as of Sept 30, net of $7billion in announced forth quarter charges.
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Has anyone seen a similar breakdown of value of business lines for Digital,
prepared by some business analyst or another. I need it for a meeting early
next week. A reply here or a mail to me at TAVIS::BARUCH would be appreciated.
Please post only information that is OK for publication (no analysis for
internal purposes only).
Shalom
Baruch
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| 2350.1 | YNGSTR::BROWN | Thu Jan 28 1993 13:09 | 5 | ||
The Business Week article went on to point out that IBM was one of the
few companies that could be broken down like that, and even then there
were hazy edges. DEC has internal structural differences that tend
to overlap (engineering, for example) that can't clearly be divied up.
Anyhow, good luck.
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| 2350.2 | SICVAX::SWEENEY | Patrick Sweeney in New York | Sat Jan 30 1993 21:00 | 13 | |
No breakdown by lines of business is published by Digital or made
available to Wall Street analysts.
Any breakdowns by lines of business that you might find is a pure
guess. In fact, the analysts that know Digital the best do not even
make the attempt. Digital reports product sales and services sales as
separate items and you can look them up for any quarter. Digital
sources were widely quoted recently saying that the PC business has
exceed $1 B.
Whether Digital has information systems that make such numbers known to
anyone, or even whether such an accurate breakdown exists anywhere is a
matter of speculation.
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