Dell Inc. said preliminary second-quarter earnings jumped 46% on stronger sales of enterprise products and services, improved average selling prices and favorable component costs.
The computer maker said it earned $733 million, or 32 cents a share, in the three months ended Aug. 3, compared with $502 million, or 22 cents, a year earlier. Sales rose 4% to $14.8 billion.
The results beat the prediction of analysts polled by Thomson Financial, who expected earnings of 30 cents a share on sales of $14.63 billion.
The report comes as Round Rock, Texas-based Dell emerges from a yearlong internal investigation into accounting misconduct.
Dell said it would have to reduce more than four years' worth of earnings by as much as $150 million after misleading auditors and manipulating results to meet expectations.
