Dell, Qualcomm, Apple: Tech Premarket
NEW YORK (
) --
Dell
(DELL) - Get Report
was a loser in premarket trading on Friday, tumbling 2.51% to $9.32, after the No. 2 PC maker
Wall Street's top- and bottom-line estimates in its third-quarter results.
Excluding items, Dell earned 39 cents a share on revenue of $13.7 billion. Analysts surveyed by
Thomson Reuters
were looking for earnings of 40 cents a share and sales of $13.89 billion.
Like a number of tech companies, which have cited spending headwinds this earnings season, Dell's sales fell 11% year over year, as desktop and mobility revenue decreased.
The Round Rock, Texas company also gave weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter guidance, projecting sales between $13.97 billion and $14.38 billion. Wall Street was looking for revenue of $14.48 billion.
Dell was also one of the most active premarket Nasdaq stocks on share volume of 142,557.
Qualcomm
(QCOM) - Get Report
, which hosted its financial analyst day in San Diego on Thursday, slipped 0.02% to $61.27 in premarket trading.
At its analyst event, the chipmaker announced that it's sampling its third-generation Gobi 4G LTE chipsets to OEM customers, and also unveiled a partnership with
Cisco
(CSCO) - Get Report
to speed up indoor location services.
On Friday, before market open, the company's Qualcomm Technologies
also announced that it has acquired the assets of Israeli digital positioning company
EPOS Development
.
Vodafone
(VOD) - Get Report
shares climbed 0.48% to $23.51 in premarket trading, while
Apple's
(AAPL) - Get Report
stock was up 0.73% to $529.48.
(FB) - Get Report
shares gained 0.36% to reach $22.25, while
Sirius XM
(SIRI) - Get Report
was down 0.38% to $2.64.
--Written by James Rogers in New York.
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