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JPMorgan raised its Dell Technologies price target to $500 from $280, citing a record $51.3 billion AI server backlog that signals durable demand for the company's infrastructure hardware.
"Dell's AI opportunity remains exceptionally strong, underscored by durable, broad-based demand," Samik Chatterjee, a top-ranked analyst at JPMorgan, said in a note. Chatterjee, who ranks eighth among more than 10,000 Wall Street analysts tracked by TipRanks, maintained his overweight rating on the stock.
Chatterjee lifted his valuation multiple to 25 times from the high teens, arguing Dell's growth trajectory has structurally re-rated beyond a near-term AI surge. The new target implies about 19% upside from Dell's close at $420.91 on Friday, when the stock surged 33% after the company reported fiscal Q1 results that demolished consensus estimates. Dell earned an adjusted $4.86 a share on revenue of $43.8 billion in the quarter ended May 1, topping analyst expectations of $2.96 and $35.7 billion, respectively.
The upgrade reflects Dell's widening lead in AI infrastructure. The company booked $24.4 billion in AI orders in the quarter and raised its full-year AI server revenue forecast to $60 billion, implying 144% year-over-year growth. Chatterjee noted that Dell's AI revenue outlook still appears supply constrained, with a $10 billion half-over-half moderation embedded in second-half guidance that he said looks driven by supply visibility rather than demand weakness. He flagged potential for further raises through the year as supply improves.
Beyond AI, Chatterjee pointed to Dell's proprietary storage IP, enterprise server refresh activity tied to agentic AI workloads, and client market share gains as supporting the gross margin outlook. The combination of device refreshes, infrastructure upgrades, and AI-related capacity needs is driving visibility into a higher sustainable growth rate than Dell's prior guidance for mid-teens growth implied, he said.
The $500 target from JPMorgan represents a conviction that Dell's earnings power has structurally re-rated, not just cyclically improved. The next two earnings reports will test whether the $51.3 billion backlog converts at the pace the new target requires, with supply chain visibility as the key variable.
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