Dell CFO Kennedy Sees AI Server Demand Driving Sales Growth

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  May 28, 2026 at 22:07  |  6:00  |  Bloomberg Markets
Speakers
David Kennedy — Former NSA Hacker and Founder, TrustedSec

Summary

Dell CFO David Kennedy discusses the company's strong quarterly results and increased annual guidance, attributing it to broad-based AI server demand and growth in traditional infrastructure. He highlights the shift from training to inferencing as a durable growth driver and notes the Pentagon deal is a small part of the outlook.

  • Dell raised its fiscal year revenue guidance to $167 billion.
  • AI server revenue outlook increased to $60 billion.
  • Traditional server and storage businesses also growing strongly.
  • Kennedy sees broad-based demand across enterprise, sovereign, and Neo Cloud customers.
  • The Pentagon software deal accounts for less than $1 billion in fiscal year impact.
  • The CPU server market is recovering.
  • Dell's stock rose 29% in after-hours trading.
Trade Ideas
David Kennedy Former NSA Hacker and Founder, TrustedSec 0:26
Dell's AI server demand is durable.
Dell's strong quarterly results and raised annual guidance reflect broad-based AI server demand, with the shift from training to inferencing creating durable growth across the entire infrastructure stack including traditional servers and storage.
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