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Investment Overview for EMC (NYSE:EMC)
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Below are key drivers of EMC's value that present opportunities for upside or downside to the current Trefis price estimate for EMC:
Storage Software
- EMC's Share in the Storage Software Market: We currently forecast EMC's market share of the storage software to increase from about 25% in 2012 to 26.5% by the end of the Trefis forecast period. However, there could be 2% downside to the Trefis price estimate if EMC's market share were to remain constant at its current levels going forward.
Storage Hardware
- Storage Hardware Gross Margin: We currently forecast Storage Hardware gross margin to reduce from its 2012 levels of ~42% to ~32% by the end of our forecast period. This is mainly due to intense competition in the storage hardware segment leading to margin pressures. However, if the gross margin increased back to its 2008 level of 45%, there could be an upside of 4% to the Trefis price estimate for EMC's stock.
For additional details, select a driver above or select a division from the interactive Trefis split for EMC at the top of the page.
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EMC makes money by selling storage hardware, software and services primarily to medium and large size businesses. EMC's storage hardware helps customers manage data more efficiently and keep the information available and secure. The disks are used for large, data-intensive applications like e-mail, inventory, supply chain, backups and regulatory and compliance information.
EMC's storage software enables customers to use all features and functions related to data storage. Software ships along with the hardware system but is priced separately.
Desktop and server virtualization software is a growth area for EMC. EMC owns 80% of VMware, which is the leading provider of virtualization software used to run software applications. Virualization allows software to be run independent of the operating system on the PC or server hardware executing the application by "virtualizing" the underlying hardware resources. Virtualization allows multiple "virtual" machines to be run on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments. Further, these different virtual machines can run different operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux or Mac OS, and multiple applications on the same physical computer
Despite being commonly thought of as a "hardware" company more than 70% of EMC's value comes from the software and services it sells to manage and optimize server hardware.
Hardware vs. Software & Services
Although the sale of storage hardware generates the most revenue for EMC, the higher profitability of storage software and services is responsible for much of the stock's overall value. All three segments benefit from the forecasted exponential growth in electronic information over the next few years.
Profit Margins
We forecast that the storage hardware segment will have a gross margin of ~41% in 2013, slightly low from 2012. Gross margin will continue to decrease steadily to ~32% by the end of the forecast period, due to the significant pricing pressure that storage hardware has experienced in recent years. In comparison, the software segment is expected to have gross margins of ~79% over the same time period.
Storage Hardware & Software Markets
The storage hardware market in terms of Gigabytes (GB) of storage is expected to grow from over 27 billion GB in 2012 to nearly ~280 billion GB by 2019. However, the value of the storage hardware market is expected to grow more modestly due declines in pricing per GB of storage. The storage software market is expected to grow at around ~5% annually from ~$14 billion in 2012 to ~$19.5 billion by 2019.
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Ongoing Server Virtualization
At a very fundamental level, virtualization increases utilization of hardware resources, decreases cost and increases ease of managing multiple applications. VMware's server virtualization technology decouples the software from the underlying hardware, and enables aggregation of multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks into pools of resources that can be delivered dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed.
Continued Exponential Growth in Digital Information
We believe that all digital information created and replicated each year is growing at an average annual rate of nearly 60%. The number of total global Internet users has risen ~5x from 360 million users in year 2000 to ~3 billion Internet users by 2012, implying an annual growth rate of 18.4%. The storage demand generated by the rising Internet usage is expected to remain high over the forecast period.
Trefis Forecast Rationale for Storage Hardware Gross Margin
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Gross Margin represents Gross Profit as a percentage of Revenue. Gross Profit is determined as Revenue minus Cost of Goods and Services Sold.
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Trefis considered the following three factors for its forecast:
- Overall increase in hardware sales volume which provides increased manufacturing efficiencies
- Increased mix of high end SSD enabled storage platforms which provide higher margins
- Stringent focus on cost containment and cost reduction.
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