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DELLDell Technologies

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The 10-K against last year's

189 changes: 15 added, 9 removed, 161 reworded, 4 quiet changes

10-K Mar 16, 2026 vs Mar 25, 2025
Risk FactorsRedline ↓
2.8%
of the text changed · 10,656 words now
24.2%
of the text changed · 13,402 words now
Legal ProceedingsRedline ↓
36.7%
of the text changed · 1,273 words now
Accounting PoliciesRedline ↓
10.8%
of the text changed · 7,599 words now

10-K 0001571996-26-000008 (2026-03-16) vs 10-K 0001571996-25-000034 (2025-03-25)

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MD&A 135 words changed in this paragraph; it is 45% similar to last year's version.
•Services Net Revenue — Services net revenue includes revenue from our services offerings and support services related to hardware products and software licenses. During Fiscal 2025, 2026, services net revenue was flat as the growth within CSG services net revenue and, decreased 4% due to a lesser extent, ISG services net revenue was offset by a decline in Corporate and other services net revenue. The increase in CSG services net revenue decline was primarily due to CSG third-party software support and maintenance as well as support and maintenance associated with products sold a decrease in prior periods. The increase in ISG services net revenue was primarily due to support and maintenance associated with products sold in prior periods. Corporate and other services net revenue declined VMware Resale revenue, as we no longer act as a distributor of standalone VMware offerings. offerings and, to a lesser extent, the sale of Secureworks. The decline was partially offset by growth within services net revenue attributable to ISG and CSG, which was driven by support and maintenance associated with products sold in prior periods within both CSG and ISG and higher AI-optimized servers offerings within ISG.

Source: Item 7, 10-K 0001571996-26-000008 vs Item 7, 10-K 0001571996-25-000034

Accounting Policies 119 words changed in this paragraph; it is 32% similar to last year's version.
Stock-Based Compensation — The Company measures stock-based Stock-based compensation expense for all share-based consists of equity awards granted based on the estimated fair value of those awards at grant date. To estimate the fair value of performance-based awards containing a market condition, the Company uses the Monte Carlo valuation model. The fair value of other share-based Stock-based compensation expense for equity awards is generally recorded over the requisite service period in cost of net revenues, selling, general and administrative expense and research and development expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income based on the closing price function of the Class C Common Stock as reported employee. Compensation expense is recognized on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) on the date of grant. a straight-line basis for equity awards with a service condition and a graded vesting basis for equity awards that contain either a performance or market condition.

Source: Item 8, Note 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES, 10-K 0001571996-26-000008 vs Item 8, Note 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES, 10-K 0001571996-25-000034

Legal Proceedings 109 words changed in this paragraph; it is 65% similar to last year's version.
The Company utilizes a limited number of contract manufacturers that assemble a portion of its products. The Company purchases components from suppliers and sells those components to such contract manufacturers. The Company reflects the sale of such components by recognizing non-trade receivables from the contract manufacturers and a reduction in inventory when title and risk of loss pass to the manufacturer. Cash flows related to such transactions are recorded within cash flows from operating activities. The Company does not reflect the sale of the components in revenue and does not recognize any profit on the component sales until the Company sells the related products are sold to a the customer. The agreements with the majority of the contract manufacturers permit the Company to offset its payables against the receivables, thus mitigating the credit risk wholly or in part. Such receivables were $13.2 billion and $5.4 billion as of January 30, 2026 and January 31, 2025, respectively, and primarily consisted of receivables from the Company’s three largest contract manufacturers. The Company offset its corresponding payables against $13.0 billion and $4.7 billion of such receivables as of January 30, 2026 and January 31, 2025, respectively. The portion of receivables not offset is included in other current assets in the Consolidated Statements of Financial Position.

Source: Item 3, via Note 11 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES, 10-K 0001571996-26-000008 vs Item 3, via Note 11 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES, 10-K 0001571996-25-000034

Risk Factors 42 words changed in this paragraph; it is 85% similar to last year's version.
We are targeted by criminal and other threat actors that conduct cyber-attacks of our systems and networks on an ongoing basis. We have experienced cyber-attacks that leveraged compromised credentials of our partners, vendors, employees, and customers to gain unauthorized access to Dell Technologies, partner, and vendor systems and confidential information, including information about our customers, employees, and partners. These incidents have caused, and may in the future cause, disruption to parts of our business operations, and to the environments and operations of our partners, vendors, and customers, and such incidents could result in regulatory, investigative, recovery, remediation, contractual, and litigation expenses. We anticipate that our systems systems, networks, and networks employees will continue to be targeted by criminal and other threat actors with increasing frequency and potential harm. In particular, we We expect that attacks by nation state actors and their agents may to intensify during periods of geopolitical conflict. We also expect threat tactics leveraging AI to increase as AI technology availability and capability expand.

Source: Item 1A, 10-K 0001571996-26-000008 vs Item 1A, 10-K 0001571996-25-000034

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Sentences and paragraphs of DELL's Risk Factors and MD&A, 10-K 2026-03-16 against 10-K 2025-03-25. Each links to the text at sec.gov.

AddedRisk Factors
Although our Board of Directors has adopted a stock repurchase program, we are not obligated to repurchase any specific amount of shares of common stock, and the stock repurchase program may be suspended or terminated at any time. The amount, timing, and execution of our stock repurchase program may fluctuate, and changes in cash flows, tax laws, and our stock price could also impact our stock repurchase program.

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AddedMD&A
Infrastructure Solutions Group (“ISG”) — We provide a comprehensive portfolio of advanced infrastructure solutions designed to help customers simplify, streamline, and automate information technology (“IT”) operations. ISG also offers software, peripherals, and services, including consulting and support and deployment. Given the scale and growth of our AI-optimized servers business, effective in the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2026, we disaggregated our servers and networking offerings within revenue by major product category into AI-optimized servers offerings and traditional servers and networking offerings. As a result, our major product categories within ISG include our AI-optimized servers offerings, our traditional servers and networking offerings, and our storage offerings.

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AddedMD&A
•AI-optimized servers — We offer a specialized portfolio of AI-optimized servers designed to handle the most demanding compute-intensive workloads, including AI model training, fine-tuning, and inferencing.

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AddedMD&A
•Traditional servers and networking — Our traditional servers portfolio provides the trusted foundation for modern IT environments, supporting a wide range of general-purpose and mission-critical workloads. Our networking portfolio helps our business customers transform and modernize their infrastructure, complementing our storage and AI-optimized and traditional servers offerings, and includes wide area network infrastructure, data center and edge networking switches, and cables and optics.

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AddedMD&A
•Storage — Our comprehensive storage portfolio includes modern and traditional storage solutions that span primary, unstructured and data protection offerings and are delivered through multiple architectures, including all-flash, purpose-built, software-defined, and hyper-converged infrastructure platforms.

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AddedMD&A
•Commercial — Our commercial portfolio provides customers with solutions centered on flexibility to address their complex needs such as IT modernization, hybrid work transformation, and other critical areas.

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AddedMD&A
•Consumer — Our consumer portfolio provides customers with solutions ranging from essential computing, connectivity, and productivity needs of the everyday user to powerful performance, processing, and end-user experiences in high-end consumer and gaming offerings.

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AddedMD&A
•Technology refresh in core markets: Within our ISG business, we continue to see customers modernize and consolidate their data centers as more customers transition to next-generation products, which contributed to strong demand and net revenue growth during the year within our traditional servers and networking offerings. Additionally, within our CSG business, the PC refresh cycle is underway as customers continue to upgrade their devices, which has contributed to increased demand for our commercial offerings and moderate CSG net revenue growth.

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AddedMD&A
•Business modernization initiatives: We continue to prioritize ongoing modernization initiatives to achieve greater efficiencies and streamline our processes, while also continuing to make strategic investments designed to enable growth and innovation. These initiatives have resulted in a continued net reduction in our operating expenses.

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AddedMD&A
We remain focused on executing our key strategic priorities, creating long-term value for our shareholders, and addressing our customers’ needs. We have the following expectations regarding our performance in Fiscal 2027:

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AddedMD&A
•Gross margin: We expect margin growth, while balancing anticipated margin rate pressure resulting from a continuing shift in mix towards our AI-optimized servers offerings. We anticipate notable inflation for component costs in Fiscal 2027 and continue to monitor the rapidly evolving commodity supply environment, leverage the agility and scale of our world-class supply chain, and seek to balance profitability and growth while maintaining disciplined pricing.

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AddedMD&A
We believe our unique operating advantages provide a foundation to foster business growth, enable innovation, drive efficiencies, and continue to position us for long-term success.

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AddedMD&A
Fiscal Year Ended January 30, 2026 January 31, 2025 February 2, 2024 (in millions) Interest and other, net: Investment income, primarily interest $ 256 $ 160 $ 305 Gain on investments, net 254 177 47 Interest expense (1,560) (1,394) (1,501) Foreign exchange (95) (112) (199) Gain on disposition of businesses and assets 236 — — Other 23 (20) 24 Total interest and other, net $ (886) $ (1,189) $ (1,324)

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